An American Airways flight used to be diverted to a Texas airport mid-flight this week after a passenger punched a flight attendant more than one instances and assaulted no less than one police officer, consistent with court docket paperwork.The airplane, which used to be headed to Bozeman, Montana, from Dallas, landed at an airport in Amarillo on Wednesday after the flight team declared a Degree 2 risk because of a bodily attack, the prison grievance filed in US District Court docket for the Northern District of Texas states, bringing up a testimony from an FBI agent concerned within the arrest.Keith Edward Fagiana, 61, used to be escorted off the airplane – American Airways flight 1497 – through police and charged with interference with a flight team, the grievance stated.The incident began when a passenger complained Fagiana used to be violently kicking their chair, court docket paperwork say. Fagiana then “yelled expletives” at a flight attendant who requested him to not kick the chair, the grievance says. He then punched the flight attendant within the abdomen, the paperwork say.The flight attendant used to be punched 3 extra instances through Fagiana prior to different passengers helped to bodily restrain him, the grievance stated. The flight attendant used flex cuffs to restrain him and buckled him in a seat to look ahead to police upon touchdown, the paperwork state.Police entered the plane after it landed on the Rick Husband Amarillo Global Airport and escorted Fagiana off the airplane, paperwork say. He complained the flex cuffs have been hurting him, so officials modified out the restraints with metal handcuffs.
