US EditionBreeze Airways flight diverts after unruly passenger twice breaks free of restraints: Police
The intoxicated passenger broke free from restraints twice and forced an emergency landing; FAA reports over 1,000 unruly passenger incidents so far in 2025.
- An intoxicated passenger became agitated onboard a Norfolk-to-LAX flight, yelling racial slurs and waving a skateboard, leading the plane to divert to Grand Junction, Colorado.
- The passenger was restrained twice but broke free, resulting in minor injuries to a flight attendant and passenger.
- The passenger was taken into custody by Grand Junction police at the FBI's direction upon landing and transported to jail.
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Cops: Unruly Flier Hurled Racial Slurs, Swung Skateboard
There are unruly passengers , and then there's what happened here. Breeze Airways says it had to divert a flight Wednesday because a passenger got into an altercation with fellow fliers and flight attendants, shouted racial slurs, waved around a skateboard, hit people with his belt , and then managed to break...
·Miami, United States
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A drunk passenger waving a skateboard insulted the staff with racist expressions and freed himself twice from his ties.
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