A United Airlines flight from Chicago to Hong Kong was diverted to Alaska after the flight crew reported a man on board had vandalized two airplane bathrooms by spreading human waste, airport police said on Friday.
‘We received a report of a passenger who had messed up the bathrooms with his own feces,’ Anchorage Airport Police Lieutenant Joe Gamache said by telephone.
The man, a 22-year-old Vietnamese passport holder with U.S. residency, was escorted off the plane in handcuffs on Thursday night and met by law enforcement in the terminal, Gamache said.
A man (pictured, muzzed) on a plane traveling from Chicago to Hong Kong spread his own feces in two bathrooms, in addition to other acts
The plane was diverted to Anchorage, where the 22-year-old man was escorted off in cuffs
The passenger sitting next to the man said his family was sending him to Vietnam in an effort to help him stay out of ‘trouble’, KTVA reports.
Tri Nguyen told KTVA: ‘He just was out of control and I tried to calm him down as much as I could.’
After being interviewed by authorities through a translator, he was transported to an Anchorage hospital for a mental evaluation.
The man made no threats and did not try to interfere with the flight crew, Gamache said, adding that no charges have been filed.
The man, who is a Vietnamese passport holder with U.S. residency, will undergo a mental evaluation
Fellow passengers were provided hotel accommodation by United Airlines due to the diversion
Other antics of the man, according to witnesses on the flight, were his shaking of seats and pouring beverages on the ground.
One passenger described the excrement-filled scene to KTVA: ‘He had crap everywhere…He was stuffing his shirt in the toilet then wiping it on the walls.’
The passenger, BJ Canup, added that the passenger was ‘shirtless’.
After the incident, families and children sitting around him were moved and replaced with ‘some really big guys’ to sit around him. The move was done without incident, witnesses said.
‘I was just asked to help out and was ready to do what I could,’ said one such man, who was 7-feet-tall.
Tri Nguyen told KTVA: ‘He just was out of control and I tried to calm him down as much as I could’
He had crap everywhere…He was stuffing his shirt in the toilet then wiping it on the walls,’ passenger BJ Canup said
The pilot decided after the incident that the rest of the plane ride would be too risky for the pooper’s fellow passengers.
United Airlines, owned by United Continental Holdings Inc , said there were 245 people on board the plane and said it provided hotel accommodations for its customers.
No one was hurt, KTUU reports.
United Airlines listed on its website that the plane was diverted due to ‘operational difficulties’.