A video shared online shows several American Airlines passengers helping a woman in first class separate from an allegedly violent male travel companion, the New York Post reports.
The video shows several men and one female flight attendant yelling at the aggressive male passenger to take his hands off the victim during Flight AA310 from Miami to Charlotte in the clip shared by Epoch Times reporter Arjun Singh.
"This evening, there was a violent incident on my @AmericanAir Flight AA 310 from Miami to Charlotte. Several men jumped to subdue another man in first class, who entered an altercation with the lady next to him. The flight landed 26 minutes early, but we aren’t getting off soon," Singh wrote.
One man was heard shouting, "do not f***ing touch her" in the alleged aggressor's face.
“I don’t give a f**k. Look at me, you f**ked up. You don’t f**king touch her," he added.
A second male yelled that the alleged aggressor would be arrested.
“Get your f**king hands off of her right now,” he yelled. “You touch her again, you’re gonna get f**king arrested.”
The first man is heard asking the woman if she was OK before other passengers told her to move to an empty seat to separate from her companion, which she complies to, at which point the alleged aggressor yells that he was assaulted by her.
“No, you weren’t assaulted,” she yelled back. “I put my hand over your mouth to make you shut up.”
The second man stood in the aisle between alleged aggressor and victim as others returned to their seats and the cabin quieted down before the flight landed about 26 earlier than expected. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police officers entered the cabin before the passengers deplaned and escorted the pair off and collected witness accounts from others, according to American Airlines, as well as a second video shared by Singh.
“Two customers traveling together were engaged in an altercation aboard American Airlines flight 310, with service from Miami (MIA) to Charlotte (CLT) on Oct. 2. Local law enforcement responded and escorted the customers from the CLT airport,” a spokesperson for for American Airlines said via the New York Post. “We do not tolerate violence, and we thank our team members for their professionalism in managing a difficult situation.”
It's unclear whether the alleged male aggressor was arrested in relation to the incident.