

Once they landed, medical personnel and police officers were waiting at the plane's exit to retrieve the passenger and she was arrested at the scene. "After the passenger was restrained in flex cuffs, she spit at, headbutted, bit and tried to kick the crew and other passengers." "She was saying, 'I need to get off this plane,' and she went up to the exits and started banging on the doors, saying, 'You need to let me off this plane!'" said flight attendants tried to restrain the passenger, but she repeatedly hit one of the flight attendants on the head," the FAA said in its statement about the incident. The original poster of the video, made a follow-up video explaining what happened during the plane ride, which prompted the crew to bind the woman down with duct tape.

She could be seen yelling at departing passengers after landing, reported Business Insider.Īmerican Airlines confirmed at the time that the crew "reported a potential security concern after a customer attempted to open the forward boarding door and physically assaulted, bit and caused injury to a flight attendant." However, it showed the woman taped down to her seat from the chest and mouth. The video posted initially on TikTok but has since been removed. "If you do, you will be fined by the FAA." Berry was taped to the airline seat for the remainder of the flight. Passengers helped the flight crew restrain Berry, and then bound him to a seat by using a seatbelt extender and tape. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said in a statement announcing her fine. A male flight attendant intervened, but Berry punched him in the face, according to the police report. "If you are on an airplane, don't be a jerk and don't endanger the flight crews and fellow passengers," U.S. When the rowdy passenger attempted to storm the cockpit, other travelers jumped into action and subdued the man, using tape to secure him to an empty seat in the business class seat of the plane. The Federal Aviation Administration just hit her with a record $81,950 fine for the viral incident, which happened on a flight from Dallas to Charlotte on July 6, 2021.

Video showing her duct-taped in place after the incident spread widely on TikTok at the time. The woman reportedly attacked and bit a flight attendant after demanding to be let off the plane and even tried to open a door mid-flight, the New York Post reports. woman has been handed a record-setting fine for her out-of-control antics on an American Airlines flight last year, when she had to be duct-taped into her seat.
