A man is caught on camera on a JetBlue plane in Los Angeles cursing and screaming before he punches a flight attendant in the head, and it all went down before take off.
The disturbing scene unfolded Tuesday night at 9pm local time. The unidentified man is nonsensical, screaming ‘Get the f*** off of me!’ Big where the f*** are you at! I need the seat Biggie!’
‘Why are we still in the f***ing airport? We are not on a f***ing plane obviously,’ before adding ‘I get high as sh** I get f***ing dumb water!’ seconds later he punches a very calm and collected JetBlue flight attendant in the head, and there is an audible thump sound.
Then, right after the punch, the flight’s captain announces to the cabin that they will be returning to the gate due to an ‘incident.’
After the passenger had been screaming and cursing for some time he springs up and punches the attendant in the head
Get the cuffs: The JetBlue flight attendant who was just punched in the head calmly asks his fellow crew member to get the restraints from one of the overhead bins
Crew members rush to help the attendant who was punched to restrain the disturbed man
An eyewitness tells DailyMail.com ‘After the flight attendant was hit, he immediately restrained the man and asked for assistance. This could have been so much worse had they all not acted so professionally.’
The actual restraining was easier said than done.
According to the eyewitness, once the National Guard came in they had to cuff the disturbed man ‘not once, not twice, but three times because he broke out of the first two sets of cuffs.’
‘This happened on my red-eye Jetblue flight Tuesday night from LAX to JFK. It occurred after all passengers and crew were instructed to fasten their seatbelts.’
‘We were already sitting on the runway and the entire plane was pretty much silent as we awaited take off until this guy decided to go nuts.’
Authorities boarded and got the man securely restrained before taking him off the plane
Several officers surround the man before they get him off the plane as passengers look on
It appears the man in the cap was flying with the disturbed passenger, as he gets up and follows the officers and the disturbed man off the flight
With a mass of negative press attention around airlines, the eyewitness says the JetBlue flight crew could not have handled the situation better.
‘The JetBlue crew was amazing about this. If I was one of them I don’t if I’d be able to hold my composure the way they did.’
After the incident was over, the passengers were deplaned while they waited for two new crew members to replace the ones that were no longer taking the trip.
‘All passengers woke up in JFK to a JetBlue credit- not their fault, but totally appreciated,’ the eyewitness concluded.