{"id":592017,"date":"2026-09-06T14:56:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T14:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/592017\/"},"modified":"2026-09-06T14:56:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T14:56:11","slug":"disruptive-first-class-passenger-duct-taped-to-seat-on-us-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/592017\/","title":{"rendered":"Disruptive first-class passenger duct-taped to seat on US flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  [&amp;_p]:tit-sub-xl tit-sub-xl md:[&amp;_p]:d-tit-sub-xl md:d-tit-sub-xl mb-[1.3rem]\">A first-class passenger had to be restrained with duct tape on an American Airlines flight after allegedly becoming aggressive toward staff and other passengers. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">The flight from Dallas was more than halfway to its destination in Newark when cabin crews reported the disturbance, according to CNN.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">The man allegedly used racist and homophobic profanity, hit the woman beside him and attempted to bite other passengers who tried to intervene. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Passengers who witnessed the disturbance said a flight attendant attempted to calm the man down, before he became even more aggressive. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Three passengers used duct tape and flexible handcuffs provided by the crew to restrain the man to his seat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">A passenger told CNN they sat on the restrained man&#8217;s lap for 15 minutes while waiting for the plane to divert to Baltimore, Maryland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">After an emergency landing, the 67-year-old was arrested for disorderly conduct and second-degree assault.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A first-class passenger had to be restrained with duct tape on an American Airlines flight after allegedly becoming&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":592018,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[138,67,111,139,64,69],"class_list":["post-592017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-crime-and-justice","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-north-america","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=592017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/592018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=592017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=592017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=592017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}