Posted on 07/08/2017 6:52:58 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A Florida man caused chaos when he tried to open the exit door on a plane mid-flight, but a flight attendant hit him with a wine bottle as several passengers helped restrain him.
The FBI charged Joseph Daniel Hudek IV, a 23-year-old man from Tampa, Fla., with interfering with a flight crew after the incident, which occurred on a flight going from Seattle to Beijing, China.
Hudek was traveling first class and ordered one beer before the plane departed. Shortly after, while the plane was in the air, he went to the restroom, came out to ask a flight attendant a question, and then returned to the restroom. Two minutes later, he again exited the restroom and then ran towards an emergency exit door and attempted to open it.
Two flight attendants tried to stop Hudek, but he pushed them away as he tried to lift the handle on the door. The flight attendants asked passengers for help, but Hudek fought them off, too, and hit one male passenger in the head with a desert wine bottle.
A flight attendant then grabbed a 1-liter bottle of wine and hit Hudek on the head.
"Do you know who I am?" Hudek allegedly said after getting smacked with the bottle.
He "did not seem impacted by the breaking of a full-liter red wine bottle over his head," the FBI complaint states.
Hudek continued to fight back, but more passengers got involved and eventually subdued the unruly man and he was restrained with zip-ties.
During the return to Seattle, Hudek "remained extremely combative, and multiple passengers were needed to restrain Hudek and keep him restrained until the plane landed safely," according to the complaint.
Hudek faces 20 years in prison for the incident.
That's true, But you can also get bumped from your seat. At least that's how it used to be. I was flyuing on a similar pass but got bumped from an overbooked flight in Warsaw, Poland and had to spend 26 hours in a hard plastic, unupholstered banana seat (when I wasn't pacing around it) until my next flight.
CSI Episode ,,,,?
Was case on Southwest airlines August 2000 - mental case
tried to rush cockpit
Passengers gave him beat down then sat on perp - died
of suffocation
This clown got off lucky.......
Somebody should have opened the door and pushed this dangerous fool out. Would have saved the criminal justice system a lot of time and money (and in the future).
Sheesh! Whatever happened to giving a stranger a helping hand? /sarc
Drugs and/or possession.
That was my first thought too. Bath Salts or any one of the weird new designer drugs out there like Flakka that the law hasn't even made illegal yet because they are too new with no one ingredient being illegal but together they make people go literally crazy like running into an oncoming car crazy or running down the middle of the freeway naked crazy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMJMujPoa4Y
The people don't remember a thing afterward. This guy could go to prison for 20 years for doing stupid things on an airplane that he doesn't even remember doing. I bet he remembers doing the drugs though and he knew the risks. Geez; on a plane of all places!!
Not enough to open an exit door of an in flight pressurized jumbo jet. Eaisily over a ton of pressure holding the door closed. Evidently, the door didnt know who he was either.
The guy’s mother is a FA. So he was non-rev. LOL His mother must be real happy.
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