1000X worst than grandma who threw coins at engine
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PICTURED: Inside of Delta first-class cabin after passenger, 23, went on a rampage, assaulted a steward and then had to be subdued by fellow fliers and a flight attendant who hit him over the head with bottles of wine
Joseph Daniel Hudek IV, 23, of Tampa appeared in US District Court on Friday
Hudek allegedly lunged for exit door and fought with passengers on Delta flight
A flight attendant broke a wine bottle over his head during the altercation
The flight attendant and a passenger were sent to an area hospital with injuries
Delta flight 129 returned to Seattle-Tacoma International Airport Thursday night
It had taken off at 5.07pm, and the pilot turned around 45 minutes into the flight
Other fliers broke bottles of wine over the man's head in a bid to stop him
By Associated Press
Published: 00:38 BST, 8 July 2017 | Updated: 04:27 BST, 8 July 2017
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Joseph Daniel Hudek IV, 23, of Tampa, Florida, appeared in US District Court, wearing a beige jail uniform and sporting a scrape or bruise below his right eye
Joseph Daniel Hudek IV, 23, of Tampa, Florida, appeared in US District Court, wearing a beige jail uniform and sporting a scrape or bruise below his right eye
A flight attendant broke a wine bottle over the head of a man who lunged for an exit door and fought with other passengers during a Delta Air Lines flight from Seattle to Beijing, but it didn't faze him, an FBI agent wrote in charging papers filed Friday.
Joseph Daniel Hudek IV, 23, of Tampa, Florida, appeared in US District Court, wearing a beige jail uniform and sporting a scrape or bruise below his right eye.
He was arrested Thursday night after causing the disturbance that forced the plane to return to Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, authorities said.
Hudek did not speak during the hearing. His attorney, Robert Flennaugh II, declined to comment.
Hudek was charged with interfering with a flight crew, which carries a possible sentence of up to 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
He is expected to remain in custody at least until a detention hearing on July 13.
This Friday, July 7, 2017 photo taken by the FBI and released via the US Attorney's Office in Seattle shows the aftermath of a cabin fight on Delta Flight 129 from Seattle to Beijing
This Friday, July 7, 2017 photo taken by the FBI and released via the US Attorney's Office in Seattle shows the aftermath of a cabin fight on Delta Flight 129 from Seattle to Beijing
One flight attendant and a passenger were taken to a hospital after suffering severe facial injuries, authorities said.
Perry Cooper, a spokesman for the Port of Seattle, described the injuries as non-life-threatening.
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A probable cause statement written by FBI special agent Caryn Highley said Hudek was sitting in the first row of the Boeing 767's first-class section.
He asked a flight attendant for a beer before takeoff, and was served one, but he exhibited no sign of being intoxicated and ordered no other alcoholic drinks, the attendant told authorities.
A Delta flight to Beijing was forced to turn around and return to Seattle after a passenger tried to open an exit door about 45 minutes into the flight Thursday evening
A Delta flight to Beijing was forced to turn around and return to Seattle after a passenger tried to open an exit door about 45 minutes into the flight Thursday evening
A passenger who was on the plane said the man punched a flight attendant who tried to stop him from opening the exit latch. Above is the flight's path. It took off at 5:10pm but landed back at Seattle at 7:09pm, after having to turn back due to the unruly passenger
A passenger who was on the plane said the man punched a flight attendant who tried to stop him from opening the exit latch. Above is the flight's path. It took off at 5:10pm but landed back at Seattle at 7:09pm, after having to turn back due to the unruly passenger
Police officers are seen interviewing passengers at the airport after the on-board fight
Police officers are seen interviewing passengers at the airport after the on-board fight
An anonymous passenger said other passengers hit the man with wine bottles in an attempt to subdue him. Above, passengers are seen waiting in the airport after the plane was forced to return to Seattle Thursday night
An anonymous passenger said other passengers hit the man with wine bottles in an attempt to subdue him. Above, passengers are seen waiting in the airport after the plane was forced to return to Seattle Thursday night
Dustin Jones heard the scuffle unfold from the main cabin
Britteny Gardner said she saw 'somebody that was working' with 'blood on their shirt'
Dustin Jones (left) heard the scuffle unfold from the main cabin. Britteny Gardner (right) said she saw 'somebody that was working' with 'blood on their shirt'.
About an hour into the flight, while the plane was over the Pacific Ocean northwest of Vancouver Island, Hudek went into the forward restroom.
He came out quickly, asked the attendant a question, and went back in, the agent wrote.
When he came out again two minutes later, he suddenly lunged for the exit door, grabbed the handle and tried to open it, Highley wrote.
Two attendants grabbed him, but he pushed them away, and the attendants signaled for help from several passengers and notified the cockpit by telephone, the complaint said.
Hudek punched one flight attendant twice in the face and struck at least one passenger in the head with a red dessert wine bottle, it said.
As the struggle continued, a flight attendant grabbed two wine bottles and hit Hudek over the head with each - breaking at least one of them, Highley wrote.
According to one flight attendant, 'Hudek did not seem impacted by the breaking of a full liter red wine bottle over his head, and instead shouted, 'Do you know who I am?' or something to that extent,' the complaint said.
Glen Wang (pictured) said the passengers on the plane took the unexpected layover in stride
Glen Wang (pictured) said the passengers on the plane took the unexpected layover in stride
One passenger got him in a head-lock, but he broke out of it, until finally several passengers held him long enough to place zip-tie restraints on him, Highley wrote.
Even then he remained combative, she said, and it took multiple passengers to keep him restrained until the plane landed and Port of Seattle police arrested him.
Passenger Dustin Jones told KIRO-TV that he saw the man being rolled into the terminal in a wheelchair after the plane landed.
'He started yelling for help,' Jones said. 'And so he turned the wheelchair over in the middle of the airport, screaming for people to help him, just being belligerent.'
The fight was so violent, that passenger Britteny Gardner said she saw 'somebody that was working' with 'blood on their shirt'.
The flight left for Beijing later Thursday night.
The plane eventually took off again at 12:07am, nearly seven hours after its original departure time
The plane eventually took off again at 12:07am, nearly seven hours after its original departure time
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...n-who-tried-to-open-the-exit-midair-fbi-says/
A flight attendant smashed wine bottles on a man who tried to open the exit midair, FBI says
By Avi Selk July 8 at 11:59 AM
The aftermath on Delta Flight 129. (FBI via U.S. attorney’s Office in Seattle via AP)
Armed with fists and an unexplained determination, a man attacked Delta Air Lines crew and passengers Thursday as he tried to pry open an exit door midair, according to the FBI.
Joseph Hudek IV was eventually subdued by multiple people on the Seattle-to-Beijing flight — in a melee where bottles of wine became weapons.
He and more than 200 other people were on board when the plane took off about 5 p.m. from Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. Nothing about his background, as described in an FBI affidavit, seemed extraordinary: He was 23, flying on a dependent pass, which an airline spokesman told the Seattle Times are sometimes issued to relatives of Delta employees.
Hudek had ordered a single beer before takeoff, and appeared sober, according to the FBI.
The Boeing 767 had been flying about an hour — crossing over Vancouver Island — when Hudek rose from his first-class seat and walked into the bathroom.
He was inside about two minutes, according to the affidavit. Then he “lunged toward the forward right exit door of the aircraft, grabbed the handle” and tried to pull it open.
[A belligerent man in a Trump hat was kicked off a flight as a crowd chanted: ‘Lock him up!’]
Two flight attendants immediately tried to stop Hudek, wrote an FBI agent who later interviewed people on the plane. They called for help when he pushed them away and kept trying to force the lever that held the door in place, the agent wrote.
Dustin Jones, seated just behind the first-class curtains, told KIRO-TV that a flight attendant ran toward the back of the plane and announced: “Code 3.”
A flight attendant asked passengers for help and called the pilot, according to the FBI agent’s affidavit. The pilot reported the emergency and swung the plane back toward Seattle.
A second attendant kept trying to subdue Hudek but was punched and knocked to the ground.
A man got out of his seat to help. Witnesses would tell the FBI that Hudek punched him in the face repeatedly and hit him with a bottle of red wine, of which several were lying around.
Having fought off the initial resistance, the FBI agent wrote, Hudek went back to the door and kept working on the lever.
By now, other passengers were scared. Hudek had raised the lever halfway up, according to the affidavit. Flight crew members would later tell the FBI agent that had the plane been flying at a lower altitude, the door could have opened.
A flight attendant picked up a wine bottle, then a second one, and smashed them each over Hudek’s head, according to the FBI.
“Hudek did not seem impacted by the breaking of a full liter red wine bottle over his head,” the FBI agent wrote, “and instead shouted ‘Do you know who I am?’ or something to that extent.”
He kept fighting, according to the affidavit: breaking from a passenger’s headlock and struggling even after multiple passengers had joined the fray.
But he was outnumbered and eventually subdued — held down in the galley, zip-ties fastened around his limbs while a flight attendant told a passenger to return the lever to its proper place.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office charged Hudek with interfering with a flight crew and released a photo of the galley taken after the plane landed back at the Seattle airport. It looked like a trashed hotel room: dishes and smashed food strewn beneath an exit sign, the door and carpet sprayed with red wine, or worse.
“Somebody had blood on their shirt,” passenger Britteny Gardner told KIRO-TV.
Even after all that, Jones told KIRO, Hudek’s energy had still not been exhausted.
“He turned the wheelchair over in the middle of the airport,” Jones said, “screaming for people to help him.”
In a brief statement, Delta confirmed a mid-flight “security incident” but provided no details. A flight attendant and the first passenger who tried to restrain Hudek were both taken to a hospital with “severe facial injuries,” according to the affidavit.
Hudek could not be reached for comment by The Washington Post. The Seattle Times attended his first court appearance on Friday and noted that he looked scraped up, too.
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4676656/PICTURED-Inside-Delta-cabin-passenger-rampage.html
PICTURED: Inside of Delta first-class cabin after passenger, 23, went on a rampage, assaulted a steward and then had to be subdued by fellow fliers and a flight attendant who hit him over the head with bottles of wine
Joseph Daniel Hudek IV, 23, of Tampa appeared in US District Court on Friday
Hudek allegedly lunged for exit door and fought with passengers on Delta flight
A flight attendant broke a wine bottle over his head during the altercation
The flight attendant and a passenger were sent to an area hospital with injuries
Delta flight 129 returned to Seattle-Tacoma International Airport Thursday night
It had taken off at 5.07pm, and the pilot turned around 45 minutes into the flight
Other fliers broke bottles of wine over the man's head in a bid to stop him
By Associated Press
Published: 00:38 BST, 8 July 2017 | Updated: 04:27 BST, 8 July 2017
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Joseph Daniel Hudek IV, 23, of Tampa, Florida, appeared in US District Court, wearing a beige jail uniform and sporting a scrape or bruise below his right eye
Joseph Daniel Hudek IV, 23, of Tampa, Florida, appeared in US District Court, wearing a beige jail uniform and sporting a scrape or bruise below his right eye
A flight attendant broke a wine bottle over the head of a man who lunged for an exit door and fought with other passengers during a Delta Air Lines flight from Seattle to Beijing, but it didn't faze him, an FBI agent wrote in charging papers filed Friday.
Joseph Daniel Hudek IV, 23, of Tampa, Florida, appeared in US District Court, wearing a beige jail uniform and sporting a scrape or bruise below his right eye.
He was arrested Thursday night after causing the disturbance that forced the plane to return to Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, authorities said.
Hudek did not speak during the hearing. His attorney, Robert Flennaugh II, declined to comment.
Hudek was charged with interfering with a flight crew, which carries a possible sentence of up to 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
He is expected to remain in custody at least until a detention hearing on July 13.
This Friday, July 7, 2017 photo taken by the FBI and released via the US Attorney's Office in Seattle shows the aftermath of a cabin fight on Delta Flight 129 from Seattle to Beijing
This Friday, July 7, 2017 photo taken by the FBI and released via the US Attorney's Office in Seattle shows the aftermath of a cabin fight on Delta Flight 129 from Seattle to Beijing
One flight attendant and a passenger were taken to a hospital after suffering severe facial injuries, authorities said.
Perry Cooper, a spokesman for the Port of Seattle, described the injuries as non-life-threatening.
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A probable cause statement written by FBI special agent Caryn Highley said Hudek was sitting in the first row of the Boeing 767's first-class section.
He asked a flight attendant for a beer before takeoff, and was served one, but he exhibited no sign of being intoxicated and ordered no other alcoholic drinks, the attendant told authorities.
A Delta flight to Beijing was forced to turn around and return to Seattle after a passenger tried to open an exit door about 45 minutes into the flight Thursday evening
A Delta flight to Beijing was forced to turn around and return to Seattle after a passenger tried to open an exit door about 45 minutes into the flight Thursday evening
A passenger who was on the plane said the man punched a flight attendant who tried to stop him from opening the exit latch. Above is the flight's path. It took off at 5:10pm but landed back at Seattle at 7:09pm, after having to turn back due to the unruly passenger
A passenger who was on the plane said the man punched a flight attendant who tried to stop him from opening the exit latch. Above is the flight's path. It took off at 5:10pm but landed back at Seattle at 7:09pm, after having to turn back due to the unruly passenger
Police officers are seen interviewing passengers at the airport after the on-board fight
Police officers are seen interviewing passengers at the airport after the on-board fight
An anonymous passenger said other passengers hit the man with wine bottles in an attempt to subdue him. Above, passengers are seen waiting in the airport after the plane was forced to return to Seattle Thursday night
An anonymous passenger said other passengers hit the man with wine bottles in an attempt to subdue him. Above, passengers are seen waiting in the airport after the plane was forced to return to Seattle Thursday night
Dustin Jones heard the scuffle unfold from the main cabin
Britteny Gardner said she saw 'somebody that was working' with 'blood on their shirt'
Dustin Jones (left) heard the scuffle unfold from the main cabin. Britteny Gardner (right) said she saw 'somebody that was working' with 'blood on their shirt'.
About an hour into the flight, while the plane was over the Pacific Ocean northwest of Vancouver Island, Hudek went into the forward restroom.
He came out quickly, asked the attendant a question, and went back in, the agent wrote.
When he came out again two minutes later, he suddenly lunged for the exit door, grabbed the handle and tried to open it, Highley wrote.
Two attendants grabbed him, but he pushed them away, and the attendants signaled for help from several passengers and notified the cockpit by telephone, the complaint said.
Hudek punched one flight attendant twice in the face and struck at least one passenger in the head with a red dessert wine bottle, it said.
As the struggle continued, a flight attendant grabbed two wine bottles and hit Hudek over the head with each - breaking at least one of them, Highley wrote.
According to one flight attendant, 'Hudek did not seem impacted by the breaking of a full liter red wine bottle over his head, and instead shouted, 'Do you know who I am?' or something to that extent,' the complaint said.
Glen Wang (pictured) said the passengers on the plane took the unexpected layover in stride
Glen Wang (pictured) said the passengers on the plane took the unexpected layover in stride
One passenger got him in a head-lock, but he broke out of it, until finally several passengers held him long enough to place zip-tie restraints on him, Highley wrote.
Even then he remained combative, she said, and it took multiple passengers to keep him restrained until the plane landed and Port of Seattle police arrested him.
Passenger Dustin Jones told KIRO-TV that he saw the man being rolled into the terminal in a wheelchair after the plane landed.
'He started yelling for help,' Jones said. 'And so he turned the wheelchair over in the middle of the airport, screaming for people to help him, just being belligerent.'
The fight was so violent, that passenger Britteny Gardner said she saw 'somebody that was working' with 'blood on their shirt'.
The flight left for Beijing later Thursday night.
The plane eventually took off again at 12:07am, nearly seven hours after its original departure time
The plane eventually took off again at 12:07am, nearly seven hours after its original departure time
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...n-who-tried-to-open-the-exit-midair-fbi-says/
A flight attendant smashed wine bottles on a man who tried to open the exit midair, FBI says
By Avi Selk July 8 at 11:59 AM
The aftermath on Delta Flight 129. (FBI via U.S. attorney’s Office in Seattle via AP)
Armed with fists and an unexplained determination, a man attacked Delta Air Lines crew and passengers Thursday as he tried to pry open an exit door midair, according to the FBI.
Joseph Hudek IV was eventually subdued by multiple people on the Seattle-to-Beijing flight — in a melee where bottles of wine became weapons.
He and more than 200 other people were on board when the plane took off about 5 p.m. from Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. Nothing about his background, as described in an FBI affidavit, seemed extraordinary: He was 23, flying on a dependent pass, which an airline spokesman told the Seattle Times are sometimes issued to relatives of Delta employees.
Hudek had ordered a single beer before takeoff, and appeared sober, according to the FBI.
The Boeing 767 had been flying about an hour — crossing over Vancouver Island — when Hudek rose from his first-class seat and walked into the bathroom.
He was inside about two minutes, according to the affidavit. Then he “lunged toward the forward right exit door of the aircraft, grabbed the handle” and tried to pull it open.
[A belligerent man in a Trump hat was kicked off a flight as a crowd chanted: ‘Lock him up!’]
Two flight attendants immediately tried to stop Hudek, wrote an FBI agent who later interviewed people on the plane. They called for help when he pushed them away and kept trying to force the lever that held the door in place, the agent wrote.
Dustin Jones, seated just behind the first-class curtains, told KIRO-TV that a flight attendant ran toward the back of the plane and announced: “Code 3.”
A flight attendant asked passengers for help and called the pilot, according to the FBI agent’s affidavit. The pilot reported the emergency and swung the plane back toward Seattle.
A second attendant kept trying to subdue Hudek but was punched and knocked to the ground.
A man got out of his seat to help. Witnesses would tell the FBI that Hudek punched him in the face repeatedly and hit him with a bottle of red wine, of which several were lying around.
Having fought off the initial resistance, the FBI agent wrote, Hudek went back to the door and kept working on the lever.
By now, other passengers were scared. Hudek had raised the lever halfway up, according to the affidavit. Flight crew members would later tell the FBI agent that had the plane been flying at a lower altitude, the door could have opened.
A flight attendant picked up a wine bottle, then a second one, and smashed them each over Hudek’s head, according to the FBI.
“Hudek did not seem impacted by the breaking of a full liter red wine bottle over his head,” the FBI agent wrote, “and instead shouted ‘Do you know who I am?’ or something to that extent.”
He kept fighting, according to the affidavit: breaking from a passenger’s headlock and struggling even after multiple passengers had joined the fray.
But he was outnumbered and eventually subdued — held down in the galley, zip-ties fastened around his limbs while a flight attendant told a passenger to return the lever to its proper place.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office charged Hudek with interfering with a flight crew and released a photo of the galley taken after the plane landed back at the Seattle airport. It looked like a trashed hotel room: dishes and smashed food strewn beneath an exit sign, the door and carpet sprayed with red wine, or worse.
“Somebody had blood on their shirt,” passenger Britteny Gardner told KIRO-TV.
Even after all that, Jones told KIRO, Hudek’s energy had still not been exhausted.
“He turned the wheelchair over in the middle of the airport,” Jones said, “screaming for people to help him.”
In a brief statement, Delta confirmed a mid-flight “security incident” but provided no details. A flight attendant and the first passenger who tried to restrain Hudek were both taken to a hospital with “severe facial injuries,” according to the affidavit.
Hudek could not be reached for comment by The Washington Post. The Seattle Times attended his first court appearance on Friday and noted that he looked scraped up, too.
More reading:
A United pilot ranted about Trump, Clinton and divorce. Her passengers fled.
‘Demonic activity was palpable’ at Trump’s rally, pastor says
A man wouldn’t leave an overbooked United flight. So he was dragged off, battered and limp.
Should had the Ang Moh shot on the spot!
