{"id":711873,"date":"2026-06-03T05:02:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T05:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/711873\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T05:02:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T05:02:12","slug":"former-mma-fighter-helps-restrain-man-who-tried-to-open-plane-door-on-flight-to-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/711873\/","title":{"rendered":"Former MMA fighter helps restrain man who tried to open plane door on flight to Chicago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        Former MMA fighter helps restrain man who tried to open plane door on flight to Chicago &#8211; CBS Chicago                <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/chicago\/weather\/\" class=\" site-nav__weather-anchor lazyload\" data-current-weather-options=\"{\" url=\"\" data-component=\"[\" current-weather=\"\" data-track-action=\"{&quot;linkName&quot;:&quot;navigation interactions&quot;,&quot;moduleCampaign&quot;:&quot;navigation interactions&quot;,&quot;moduleName&quot;:&quot;sub nav&quot;,&quot;moduleAction&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;moduleLocation&quot;:&quot;weather icon&quot;}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>    <img class=\"current-weather-icon\"\/><\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p>  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/live\/\" title=\"Watch CBS News\" class=\"breaking-news__video-container\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/live\/\" class=\"breaking-news__headline-wrapper--wrapper\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"breaking-news__headline\">Watch CBS News<\/p>\n<p>    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                A former professional MMA fighter from Chicago came to the rescue when an unruly passenger tried to open a Frontier Airlines door mid-flight on Sunday while the plane was headed to O&#8217;Hare International Airport.\n                      <\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former MMA fighter helps restrain man who tried to open plane door on flight to Chicago &#8211; CBS&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":711874,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85],"class_list":["post-711873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=711873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/711874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=711873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=711873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=711873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}