Alaska Airlines
FBI examination during the flight …
The crew holds back passenger
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The passengers and flight attendants who are involved in an in-air skirmish on a flight from Alaska Airlines are now under a federal microscope … with the FBI, which checks whether a crime has been committed.
Viral video from a flight from Alaska Airlines from Oakland to Portland shows a flight attendant who repeatedly steps on a window seat and asks the man to let the woman's hair sitting in front of him.
Alaska Airlines flight 2221 incident Oakland, approx. 2/1/2024 ~ 10:35 a.m. pic.twitter.com/nd7g1yquvz
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The FBI branch in San Francisco tells us that the office “knows the incident, and corresponding steps are taken to determine whether a violation of the federal law has occurred.”
Alaska Airlines tells us that the male passenger from the video “seemed to experience a violent medical episode in which a continuing physical attack against other passengers and our crew was ongoing”.
In the video you can see how the guy sings, screams and rocks from one side to the other.
The airline says that the incident was on the asphalt and the plane returned to the goal, where the law enforcement authorities were involved. Alaska says that the man was “banished from the airline due to the type of physical attack”.
Sounds like he has bigger problems to worry … depending on what the FBI determines here.
In the meantime, the association of flight attendants welcomes the crew member to “stop a violent passenger before another physical attack by another passenger”.
The union says that the flight attendant “protected a passenger and … stopped a further escalation and violation of other passengers on board the aircraft”.
It will be interesting to see whether the Feds agree. Stay tuned …