Florida Man Arrested and Forcibly Removed From American Airlines Flight For Allegedly Threatening To ‘Take This Plane Down’

A Florida man aboard an American Airlines flight was put in a headlock and forcibly removed from the aircraft.
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A Florida man aboard an American Airlines flight was put in a headlock and forcibly removed from the aircraft, and arrested after he called fellow passengers “blue-eyed white devils” and threatened to “take this plane down with all you motherf—ers on it,” reports Fox News

The man, identified as 29-year-old Shail Patel was drunk when he boarded the flight from Tampa to Philadelphia on Tuesday and began

“antagonizing passengers, calling flight attendants names, threatening passengers and aggressively moving through the aircraft,”

court documents show, according to WFLA.

The report said that after he got on the plane, he

“began acting erratically, yelling and cursing at the passengers.”

He’s also being accused of hitting and spitting on one of the passengers. A video of the incident shows Patel yelling an antisemitic slur at a flight attendant. Then another passenger grabbed him and held him in a headlock until they took him off the plane.

“Prior to departure of American Airlines flight 2506 with service from Tampa (TPA) to Philadelphia (PHL), law enforcement was requested to the aircraft due to a disturbance in the cabin involving a disruptive customer,”

American Airlines said in a statement to Fox News Digital.

“We thank our team for their professionalism and apologize to our customers for the inconvenience.”

Patel was arrested on charged with two counts of battery and one count of disorderly intoxication. He is being held on a $2,150 bond.

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