Bizarre moment as man grabs a woman’s hair onboard aircraft
An Alaska Airlines flight attendant was seen restraining a crazed passenger who grabbed a woman's hair onboard.
The bizarre incident happened on February 1 on Alaska Airlines Flight 2221 at California’s Oakland International Airport just before taking off for Portland, Oregon.
The erratic male passenger, with short gray hair and glasses, was seen being held back by an unnamed male flight attendant shortly after he latched on to the hair of a female passenger in front of him.
While the flight attendant punched the man several times, trying to get him to let go of the woman’s locks, other passengers tried to step in and help.
The unnamed woman with long black hair eventually stood up and walked away as the flight attendant kept his hand on the man’s shoulder while he shrieked loudly.
It is unclear exactly what sparked the male passenger’s abnormal behavior, but according to a man who said he was on the flight, ‘he was restrained for several minutes before being arrested’.
The aircraft returned to the gate following the incident and the flight itself was cancelled ‘after an attendant refused to fly and could not be replaced’, the passenger said.
Alaska Airlines told DailyMail.com that the male passenger ‘appeared to be experiencing a violent medical episode that involved an ongoing physical assault against other passengers and our crew’.
