NewsChannel 7 has learned a large group of students from the Spartanburg High Student Council was on a plane that made an emergency landing in Colorado Springs this afternoon because of unruly passenger. The passengers are now off the plane, some being interviewed by the FBI, according to school officials.
The spokeman at the airport in Colorado Springs says AirTran flight 39 was en route from Atlanta to San Francisco when an intoxicated man on board became arguementative (sic)and locked himself in the bathroom.
Students onboard the flight told NewsChannel 7, flight crews blocked the cockpit with food carts, and restrained the man.
The Captain announced an emergency landing, bringing the plane down.
Once on the ground, students say police rushed the plane, “taking the man to the ground” according to one student, before pulling him off the plane.
The FBI will be investigating the incident. Its not clear yet if the same plane will take off or passengers will leave on another one.
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Well ... sure doesn’t sound
like it was a calm incident.
Thanks.