Passenger arrested right after hoping to open up crisis exit and stab flight attendant

A Massachusetts guy was arrested right after allegedly hoping to open up the crisis exit doorway of a airplane midflight and then hoping to stab a flight attendant.

Francisco Severo Torres, 33, was arrested at Boston Logan Global Airport on Sunday night. He was billed with “a single rely of interference and tried interference with flight crew users and attendants employing a unsafe weapon,” in accordance to a push launch from the Massachusetts United States Attorney’s Business office.

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The incident happened on a United Airways flight from Los Angeles to Boston about forty five minutes just before the scheduled landing.

In accordance to the push launch, the flight crew been given an notify that the starboard crisis exit doorway experienced been tampered with and started to examine. Suspicion arose that Torres experienced tampered with the doorway, but he denied it when he was confronted.

A flight attendant turned apprehensive by Torres’s habits and questioned the pilot to land the plane as rapidly as achievable. Torres then allegedly turned violent.

“Soon thereafter, it is alleged that Torres received out of his seat and approached the starboard facet doorway exactly where two flight attendants were being standing in the aisle. 1 of the flight attendants noticed Torres mouthing a thing that he could not listen to. Torres then allegedly thrust in the direction of a single of the flight attendants in a stabbing movement with a damaged metallic spoon, hitting the flight attendant on the neck place a few moments. Travellers then tackled Torres and he was restrained with the guidance of flight crew. Torres was promptly taken into custody on the flight’s arrival to Boston,” the push launch examine.

Torres faces the probability of daily life in jail and a good of up to $250,000.

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