Man charged with stabbing United Airways flight attendant.
A person has been arrested after stabbing a flight attendant and trying to open the emergency door on a United Airways flight from Los Angeles to Boston.
Francisco Severo Torres, a 33-year-old man from Massachusetts, was charged with utilizing a harmful weapon and interfering with flight crew members and attendants after the aircraft landed at Boston Logan Worldwide Airport.
The incident started when the pilots have been alerted to a disarmed aspect door between the primary class and coach sections by an alarm within the cockpit 45 minutes earlier than touchdown. Cabin crew confirmed the locking deal with had been moved out of the locked place.
A flight attendant reported seeing Torres close to the door and suspected that he tampered with it. When questioned whether or not he tampered with locking deal with, Torres requested if any cameras recorded him doing so, prosecutors stated.
Torres later allegedly struck a flight attendant 3 times within the neck with a damaged steel spoon after they approached him.
Different passengers restrained Torres till the flight crew may take management. United Airways has banned him from any future flights and is cooperating with regulation enforcement within the investigation.
Torres advised investigators he broke off the top of a spoon within the rest room earlier than making an attempt to open the door to try to bounce out of the aircraft, a Boston police officer wrote in an affidavit, and that he knew individuals would die had he opened the door. He additionally stated he thought one of many attendants was making an attempt to kill him.
“Now we have zero tolerance for any sort of violence on our flights, and this buyer shall be banned from flying on United pending an investigation,” United Airways stated in an announcement. “We’re cooperating with regulation enforcement of their investigation.”
Torres may resist life in jail if convicted.
The flight attendants union, the Affiliation of Flight Attendants, stated in an announcement that they have been grateful for the FBI’s fast motion and “pleased with the crew of United Flight 2609 and relieved that nobody sustained life-threatening bodily accidents.
“Violence has no place anyplace and positively not in a closed cabin flying a number of miles within the air.”
The Affiliation of Flight Attendants has referred to as on Congress to cross the Safety from Abusive Passengers Act to create a listing of nationally banned disruptive passengers.
This video shot by a fellow passenger reveals a Massachusetts man being subdued after his violent outburst on a Boston-bound United flight. https://t.co/giAarNd91A pic.twitter.com/sGeNQMSbX4
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