A flight from Miami to Los Angeles was forced to make an emergency landing after a crazed woman started shouting “We’re all gonna die” and told everyone on the plane to “repent.”
The incident happened aboard American Airlines Flight 1295, which took off from Florida just after 7 p.m. Tuesday, another passenger told the Daily Beast.
“It’s an early flight … so we were all kind of just working and minding our own business,” the passenger, who did not wish to be named, told the outlet.
“All of a sudden, we heard screaming coming from the back, and a flight attendant was saying to a passenger, like, ‘Are you in danger? Is anything going on? Are you OK?’ And she said, ‘No, we’re all gonna die. Repent, repent!’
“She rushed the man and his seatmate, repeating, ‘Repent, repent, we’re all gonna die,’” the tipster reportedly continued.
“She started out talking in a regular voice, then she started yelling, ‘Redemption is coming! Redemption is coming!’ … That’s it. She didn’t say anything else.”
The unidentified woman was restrained and handcuffed by flight attendants and an off-duty cop on the flight offered to sit next to them, according to the report.
The pilot landed the aircraft in Texas after the woman told crew members she was not “in her right mental mindset” and wanted to get off the plane.
Local law enforcement boarded the plane and searched it for explosives before detaining the suspect and sending the flight on its way to California, according to the report.
American Airlines did not directly address the incident in a statement to the outlet, saying simply that the diversion occurred “after a disturbance in the cabin involving an unruly customer.”
Unruly passengers have disrupted domestic flights in record numbers since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, with the TSA reporting 1,973 such incidents so far this year as of last week.