Angry Passenger Refuses To Stand Down, Assaults United Airlines Flight Attendant In Viral Video

Flights can take a heavy toll on some people. Sometimes, things can go wrong in a heartbeat. In a newly viral video on the Internet, a woman was seen getting riled up on a United Airlines flight. She caused quite a ruckus and reportedly even fought with the attendants.

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Angry passenger assaults flight attendant

A flight attendant was rushed to the hospital after a female passenger assaulted her. The incident, which was recorded by a Twitter user and later posted online, took place on Sunday morning, as per NDTV. On a flight from San Francisco to Chicago, a flight attendant got tangled with an angry female passenger who refused to sit down while the plane was landing.

In the video, the woman is seen carrying a child in her arms as she burns red with anger. She is heard screaming at the top of her voice, “Where is it?” All the while, the flight attendants present on the plane try to handle the situation by trying to calm her down. An attendant asked the angry passenger to “step back” while other attendants flocked to the scene in support.

Check out the viral video below:

Three people hospitalised

The original poster of the video shared that the incident took place after the plane landed at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport. As the attendants tried to control the situation, they attempted to pacify the passenger by telling her that the flight was “landing.” At that point, the situation escalated as an attendant was heard shouting, “Sarah, step back.” However, the passenger became even more combative as the attendant repeated frantically, “Step back.”

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At the end of the video, other attendants are seen rushing in to help their colleagues. According to the outlet, the Chicago police were called after a “disturbance” was reported on Flight 476. United Airlines issued a statement afterwards, “A disruptive customer on a flight from San Francisco to Chicago was removed by law enforcement upon landing on Sunday, and one member of the flight attendant crew was taken to a hospital for evaluation.”

After the incident, three people were taken to a nearby hospital?though no fatal injuries were reported. Per the outlet, an FBI investigation was also launched to look into the incident further.

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