A flight bound for Chicago's O'Hare International Airport was diverted to Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport.
The FBI's Detroit Field Office confirmed agents were present at the airport,"conducting law enforcement activities," but didn't provide additional details.A tense scene unfolded on a Chicago -bound flight as a disruptive passenger prompted a diversion to Detroit.
Rose Schmidt reports.prompted a response from federal agents on Sunday and forced a flight bound for Chicago's O'Hare International Airport to divert to Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport.American Airlines flight 2819 left John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City at 8:59 a.m. ET and was diverted to Detroit, where it landed at 11:08 a.m. ET. The flight was originally scheduled to arrive at O'Hare at 10:57 a.m. CT, but actually landed at 7 p.m. - around eight hours late."We hear this person in the back screaming, yelling, 'No, no, no,' and he can't get off the plane, and he didn't take his meds," said Gerry Sutofsky, another passenger."And then he started screaming, 'I'm going to blow up the plane, I know planes...and I'm going to kill you all,' and he was this close to getting really, really aggressive. He was ready to attack the flight attendants," said passenger Margaret Weinstock.Passengers shared photos and videos with NBC Chicago of the tense moments — when they were given a police escort on a bus in Detroit, and before that, when police and the FBI first came on the plane. The FBI's Detroit Field Office confirmed agents were present at the airport,"conducting law enforcement activities," but didn't provide additional details. An American Airlines spokesperson said a disruptive customer prompted the aircraft to divert to Detroit, where law enforcement and medical personnel met the flight. The person in question was taken off the plane, the airline said. "They were all chanting on the intercom to put our heads down and hands up," passenger Huxley Werner said."And nobody knew what was really going on at that point."
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