This week, Chaos burst out on board a frontier airlines flight from Denver to Houston when a man started a window and various seats around him, allowing other passengers to submit him with shoelaces and zip tires until the plane landed.
The battle, recorded on videos and photos taken by passengers, started on Tuesday evening for about 40 minutes in flight 4856.
The plane had reached its cruising height of 35,000 feet when the man broke the inside pan of the window and his plastic frame, a case of air anger that confirmed an FBI spokesperson on Saturday by the desk.
Until now, the man, whose name has not been released by the authorities, is not accused of a crime. It was not clear what led to his eruption.
The flight had no air marshal, so the crew was asked if someone on board had experience with law enforcement or the army, according to passengers on the run.
Eric Starcevic, a heating and air conditioning technician from Katy, Texas, said on Saturday that he had no special training, but could not sit alone and watch.
He returned with his wife and their 13-year-old daughter of a ski trip in Colorado. The family was about 10 to 15 rows away from the man.
“I heard the commotion going, he kicked things,” said Mr. Starcevic. “Then, the following you know, he tries to hit the window.”
Mr. Starcevic said that the unmanageable passenger seemed to have cut his hands and had cut the window that seemed to have a crack on an inner panel. In a photo made by Mr. Starcevic can be seen blood on the window shadow and the wall next to the man's chair.
Mr. Starcevic, 45, who said he and about four other men hurried to intervene, described a hectic search for everything they could use to bind the man's hands and legs.
“He tries to kill us all,” said Mr. Starcevic that he remembered he was thinking. “Someone just knelt on him.”
His wife, Jessica, said she stayed in her chair with their daughter. “Even someone offered my husband their headphones to try to bind him,” she said.
Mr. Starcevic said that he and the other men took turns the rest of the two -hour and 16 -minute flight flight, stopped the man and guarded him until they reached the George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston, where the flight was met by the Flight by police officers after what Mr. Starcevic described as a delay.
“It really felt like it was an eternity,” said Jessica Starcevic, adding that the announcements of the pilot were rather routine and passengers told their safety belts to attach pending turbulence.
From Saturday the couple said that they had not heard of the airline.
Victor Senties, a spokesperson for the Houston police, said on Saturday that Frontier Airlines had rejected the man at the time.
Jennifer F. de la Cruz, a spokeswoman for Frontier, wrote on Saturday in an e -mail that the FBI did research.
Connor Hagan, a spokesperson for the Houston Field Office from the agency, said that the FBI worked closely with Frontier and the Houston police as part of the investigation. He noted that the FBI has primary jurisdiction about investigating crimes that take place on board aircraft.
The episode contributes to a list of controversial examples of air rage. In 2021 a passenger of Frontier Airlines attacked three stewardesses, one hit one and the breasts of two others, on a flight from Philadelphia to Miami, stuck a crew member to his chair until the plane landed.
In 2024, the Federal Aviation Administration said that the 2,102 reports had received from unmanageable passengers from the airlines, an increase of 1 percent compared to 2023. While the volume has deviated from its height during the Coronavirus Pandemia, when the FAA developed a zero tolerance for policy for Unmanageable passengers of airlines, the agency said the recent increase shows that it remains a problem.
