A Frontier Airways flight from Cincinnati to Tampa needed to land early in Atlanta on Friday as a result of an alleged menace to a passenger from a fellow traveler, a person with a field cutter.
The airplane was diverted to Atlanta at round 9:30 p.m. Friday “after a disturbance involving a disruptive passenger in possession of a field cutter was declared,” the Transportation Safety Administration mentioned in a Twitter thread.
The passenger within the window seat subsequent to the field cutter-wielding man informed a 3rd passenger Ben Mutz that the person “flashed a field knife at [them] and mentioned, ‘I need to kill or I need to stab individuals,’” in keeping with ABC Information.
One other passenger, previously with regulation enforcement, finally calmed the field cutter-wielding man down, and the plane was in a position to land and deplane in Atlanta, in keeping with ABC Information.
Neither vacationers nor crew members had been injured within the incident, Frontier Airways spokesperson Jessica de la Cruz informed the Atlanta Journal-Structure.
After the unnamed man was taken into custody by authorities, a second field cutter was present in his baggage.
The TSA is now investigating how the 2 field cutters had been allowed into the cabin; the implements are allowed in checked baggage, however not in carry-ons as a result of post-911 rules.
“The scenario with the Frontier flight is below investigation with the US Lawyer’s Workplace [for the Northern District of Georgia], as they’re the lead federal company on this matter … TSA has began an inner assessment of the incident by viewing CCTV, airport safety checkpoint processes/operations and can proceed to supply updates as they’re out there,” the TSA continued within the Twitter thread.
The remaining passengers got in a single day lodging in Atlanta and flew out of town’s airport to Tampa at round 9:35 a.m. Saturday, in keeping with the Journal-Structure.
