The latest violent incident aboard a plane happened before the plane even took off.
Passengers were boarding a plane at Dallas Love Field Airport bound for Phoenix when one man confronted another and started punching him, according to a passenger who witnessed the incident and captured it on video.
It’s unclear what led up to the fight, but one of the men reportedly told passengers that the person he attacked approached his family aggressively.Southwest Airlines acknowledged the incident in a statement but said it has no further details to share other than the flight arrived on time and as scheduled.The FAA said the system’s software predicts when a plane is lined up to land on a taxiway and sends an alert to air-traffic controllers.
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