Posted on 03/15/2020 1:51:08 PM PDT by Kaslin
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — An American Airlines flight from Dallas to Nashville took over eight hours to take off and was delayed three times after a man reportedly joked about having coronavirus.
Flight #1076 to Nashville was supposed to arrive at 8:40 p.m. Saturday but did not finally arrive at BNA until 4:40 a.m. Sunday. The man, who has not been identified, reportedly wouldn’t lift his tray table up before the plane took off at which point he claimed he had coronavirus.
“People were freaked out because nobody knew what was going on,” said passenger Brandon Kenney, “People didn’t know if he was actually sick or if he really didn’t have coronavirus or not.”
The situation understandably was taken very seriously. HAZMAT crews and police officers boarded the plane and had the man removed.
Passengers were reportedly panicked after seeing HAZMAT on the plane. Police told a passenger we spoke with that the man ‘wasn’t all there.’
“Right after he was escorted off the plane, one of the cops came back and kind of explained the situation to the people that were sitting near him and kind of spelled it out for us and told us not to worry about it and really was just talking about how he was joking about having the coronavirus,” said Kenney.
Panic soon turned to frustration for passengers of the plane as part of the flight crew did not want to fly after the incident. Crew issues and maintenance issues led to further delays, all totaling about eight hours. The man who created the initial havoc was arrested.
American Airlines has not responded to multiple requests for comment.
Airports are working to try to stop the spread and are a very big concern right now. Officials say the biggest concerns are social distancing and planes being an issue because social distancing cannot be done on them.
Dallas-Fort Worth Airport is one of 13 airports that Americans who are coming back after visiting restricted countries are being flown into so they can be tested for coronavirus.
Officials say you should wash your hands and avoid touching your face and take all necessary precautions to help prevent the spread of coronavirus.
Most patients with COVID-19 have a mild respiratory illness including fever, cough and shortness of breath. The Tennessee Department of Health strongly encourages Tennesseans to wash your hands often with soap and water and to not touch your eyes, nose or mouth with unwashed hands.
The Health Department asks the community to consider carefully the implications of holding meetings or events involving large numbers of people, especially if the group is likely to include high-risk individuals. All medically fragile citizens should avoid crowds and take other actions to protect their health.
High-risk individuals are defined as adults over 60 years old or people of any age with serious chronic medical conditions such as: Heart disease, diabetes, or lung disease.
The Tennessee Department of Health offers a COVID-19 Public Information Line at 877-857-2945, with information available daily from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Central Time.
Idiots act like idiots. His name should be front page news. Let him explain his behavior to family, friends, church, employer and co-workers.
Very well said.
I hope there isn’t an Outbreak of Ihaveabombvirus coming.
It would be as bad as Budweiservirus.
Move him to the top of the NoFly List.
Heck, put him on the NoBus, NoUber, NoTaxi, NoAmbulance, NoSelfPedalBeerTrolly List.
Drop everybody else off at BNA and then drop his ass off over BFE.
A bucket of warm tar and a sack full of chicken feathers would not be out of line.
“The man, who has not been identified, reportedly wouldn’t lift his tray table up before the plane took off at which point he claimed he had coronavirus. “
Delta should ban this a-hole from flying on Delta forever ...
How about the general no fly list?
You get enough idiots doing this and street justice is a sure bet.
“The man, who has not been identified”
Why? Make him famous.
Wonder what his religion was?
Negative. He should have been taken out onto the grassy medians between the tarmac strips, swiftly tried and then publicly executed for terrorism.
A few of these will end the spate of idiots ‘making jokes’ about having a bomb on board or having coronavirus, etc., when they don’t get their way.
I worry about jerks going to supermarkets proclaiming they’ve smeared the virus on store items.
Same deal. Parking lot, bused in legal crew, public execution for terrorism, watch how that ends that stupid idea pretty quickly.
I don’t think we’d even need to go that far. Public caning would probably put an end to that nonsense real quick.
TSA should throw his ass in the klink for a year.
Seems like Domestic Terrorism to me
Treat it as such, then stick him with the bill for revenue loss his idiocy cost the airlines, and every single passenger on the plane, as well as every connection passenger inconvenienced
Actions have consequences
You see the photo at the top of this article with the focus on the turbine?
THATS WHERE THAT SOB should have been put!
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