Several passengers on an American Airlines flight to North Carolina Wednesday stepped in to help a woman seated in first class get away from her allegedly violent male travel companion.
A shocking video shows several men and a female flight attendant yelling at the alleged aggressor to take his hands off the woman in the first-class cabin of flight AA310 from Miami to Charlotte.
Three men leaned over the seat to confront the man, while multiple flight attendants stood in the aisle, the clip posted by Epoch Times reporter Arjun Singh shows.
“Do not f–king touch her,” one man loudly shouted in the man’s face before he seemed to give an inaudible excuse. “I don’t give a f–k. Look at me, you f–ked up. You don’t f–king touch her.”
A second man screamed that the woman’s seatmate would be arrested.
“Get your f–king hands off of her right now,” he yelled. “You touch her again you’re gonna get f–king arrested.”
The first man asks the woman if she is OK before the passengers tell her to move to another empty seat away from her companion.
As she moved across the aisle, the alleged aggressor yells that he was assaulted by the woman and claims that she slapped him, according to the footage.
“No you weren’t assaulted,” she yelled back. “I put my hand over your mouth to make you shut up.”
The second man who intervened stands in the aisle between the pair as other passengers return to their seats and the cabin quiets down.
The flight landed 26 minutes early but Charlotte-Mecklenburg police officers were waiting at the airport and entered the cabin before passengers deplanned.
The officers escorted the pair off the plane and then collected witness accounts from fellow passengers, according to American Airlines and a second video shared by Singh.
“Two customers traveling together were engaged in an altercation aboard American Airlines flight 310, with service from Miami (MIA) to Charlotte (CLT) on Oct. 2. Local law enforcement responded and escorted the customers from the CLT airport,” a spokesperson for the airline said.
“We do not tolerate violence, and we thank our team members for their professionalism in managing a difficult situation.”
It’s unclear if the man was arrested. The Charlotte-Mecklenburg police department did not immediately respond to a Post inquiry.
If you or someone you know is affected by any of the issues raised in this story, call the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1.800.799.SAFE (7233) or text START to 88788.
