Terrifying footage of a United Airlines flight from LA to Boston has been released in which a passenger went berserk and threatened to ‘kill every man on this plane’.
Francisco Severo Torres, 33, from Leominster, Massachusetts, was charged with one count of interference and attempted interference with flight crew members using a dangerous weapon after he stabbed a flight attendant with a broken spoon.
In a video shot by a fellow passenger sitting only feet away, Torres can be heard threatening to commit mass murder while goading others to try and stop him.
Torres could be seen standing up in his seat while shouting at those seated around him. As he made his way down the aisle, he approached two flight attendants standing in his way and used the spoon to make stabbing motions, hitting a flight attendant three times in the neck.
He was restrained by other passengers who rush forward from the plane’s rear along with other flight attendants.
While the nightmare drama was unfolding in the cabin, up front on the flight deck, the captain of the flight radioed air traffic control to tell them Torres had been detained by passengers but was ‘not going quietly’, and had six people restraining him as the plane came down to land.
Torres had boarded United Airlines Flight 2609 on Sunday in Los Angeles, bound for Boston. He had remained quiet for most of the flight when, just 45 minutes before landing, a cabin crew member noticed how an emergency exit had been tampered with.
A flight attendant saw that the door’s locking handle had been moved out of the fully locked position about a quarter toward the unlocked position.
The emergency slide arming lever had also been moved to the disarmed position, authorities said. The crew secured the door and slid.
Another flight attendant had noticed that Torres was seen near the door and believed he had tampered with it. The crew told the captain he was a threat and the plane should land soon. The captain told air traffic control that they had had an incident.
United praised the quick thinking of the crew and passengers. ‘Thanks to the quick action of our crew and customers, one customer was restrained after becoming a security concern on a flight from Los Angeles to Boston,’ United said in a statement. ‘The flight landed safely and was met by law enforcement. No serious injuries were reported.’
The charge of interference and attempted interference with flight crew members and attendants using a dangerous weapon provides for a sentence of up to life in prison, up to five years of supervised release and a fine of up to $250,000.
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