United Airlines Flight No. 1 a Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft from Houston, Texas, taxis to the gate after landing at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport Monday, May 20, 2013.Charles Rex Arbogast/Associated Press
United Airlines confirmed an incident involving a disruptive passenger in Chicago on Sunday.
A video posted on TikTok showed a woman with a baby telling a flight attendant, “I’m going to kill you.”
Chicago police responded to the incident and the FBI is investigating.
A woman carrying a baby on a red-eye flight from San Francisco to Chicago early Sunday morning was caught on video confronting a flight attendant and threatening to kill her.
The video, which has gone viral on TikTok, shows the woman in a physical altercation with a flight attendant while holding a child on her hip. It’s unclear what preceded the video, but the woman can be heard saying, “I’m going to kill you. I’m gonna fucking kill you.”
The flight attendant keeps saying “ma’am,” and another tells the woman to have a seat, but the woman continues to push her way down the aisle.
The person who posted the video, another passenger on United Airlines Flight 476, gave more details in a follow-up video. She said earlier in the flight the woman screamed “gibberish” and that “Jesus Christ our Savior would save us.” As the plane prepared to land, the woman got out of her seat and refused the flight attendants’ request to sit down, the passenger added, saying that she started recording at that point.
United Airlines confirmed the disruption had occurred in a statement to Insider: “A disruptive customer on a flight from San Francisco to Chicago was removed by law enforcement upon landing Sunday, and a member of the flight attendant crew was arrested in a hospital brought assessment. We are grateful to our crew for handling this difficult situation professionally and for putting the safety of our team and our customers first.”
A spokesman for the Chicago Police Department also confirmed to Insider that officers responded at a gate at O’Hare Airport around 6 a.m. local time on Sunday. Officer Steve Rusanov said three people were taken to the hospital for observation and the FBI is investigating.
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At the time of publication, no serious injuries have been reported.
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