A BRAVE American Airlines flight attendant allegedly hit a passenger with a coffee pot after he reportedly tried to open the cockpit and plane doors.
Flight 1775, which was heading to Washington DC from Los Angeles, was forced to divert to Kansas City on Sunday.
An “unruly” passenger became disruptive as they tried to open the cockpit and plane doors.
Fellow travelers and flight attendants tried to restrain the disruptive passenger before a steward allegedly hit the man with a coffee pot.
Passenger Mouaz Moustafa told Fox News Digital: “As people were trying to subdue him and everything, the same flight attendant runs all the way back and grabs a coffee pot, goes all the way to the front and starts bashing this guy, like in the head.”
Moustafa feared he would die as the jet descended “rapidly” in minutes.
Another passenger called the incident “very scary” and said that the lights in the plane suddenly came on as “several men stood up to rush to first class.”
Karen Alston, who was sitting in the 17th row, told the Daily Beast: "When people started standing up, I knew something was wrong."
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Jake Smith, said he was getting up to go to the bathroom when he saw a flight attendant “running full speed down the aisle.”
He said the steward yelled for the lights to be switched on, before the jet made a sudden hard left and sped up within minutes.
Witnesses were quizzed after the plane landed and the passenger was arrested.
The man was being held for interfering with the flight crew, according to Kansas City Aviation Department spokesperson Joe McBride.
American Airlines said in a statement: "We're grateful to our crew members, who are consistently dedicated to the safety and care of our customers and who handled the situation with the utmost skill and professionalism.
"We also appreciate the customers who stepped in to assist our crew."
Affected passengers were booked onto another flight.
More than 5,000 "unruly" passenger reports were logged with the Federal Aviation Administration in 2021.
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