Passengers onboard an American Airlines flight were seen restraining a man sitting in first class who was allegedly violent with his female travel companion.
Video shared online shows several men leaning over a man seated in the first row of the flight from Miami, Florida to Charlotte, North Carolina on Wednesday.
One sternly tells the passenger to take his hands off the woman sitting next to him as a female flight attendant tries to mediate.
‘Do not f***ing touch her,’ one man could be heard shouting in the passenger’s face, before he apparently gave an inaudible excuse.
‘I don’t give a f***,’ the man responds as the passenger argues that he took his hands off the woman. ‘Look at me, you f***ed up, You don’t f***ing touch her.’
Video shared online shows several men leaning over a man seated in the first row of the flight from Miami, Florida to Charlotte, North Carolina on Wednesday
At that point, a second man warns that the apparently handsy passenger would be arrested if he touched the woman again.
‘Get your f***ing hands off of her right now,’ he said. ‘You touch her again, you’re gonna get f***ing arrested, a**hole.’
The first man could then be seen asking the woman if she is OK, before the passengers tell her to move to another empty seat – away from her travel companion.
As she moved across the aisle, the alleged aggressor yells that he was the one who was assaulted by the woman – which she fiercely denied.
‘No you weren’t assaulted,’ the woman shot back. ‘I put my hand over your mouth to make you shut up.’
But the man held firm, screaming: ‘You slapped me!’
At that point, many of the passengers who intervened sat back down, except for one man – who stood in the aisle between the other passengers.
The passengers were seen yelling at the passenger to take his hands off the woman sitting next to him as a female flight attendant tries to mediate
The flight ultimately landed at Charlotte Douglas International Airport 26 minutes early, Epoch Times reporter Arjun Singh said, but the passengers were not allowed to deplane as Charlotte-Mecklenburg police officers entered the cabin.
A second video shows an officer speaking with the female flight attendant who originally tried to intervene. She pointed out where the feuding passengers were sitting.
The officer could then be seen asking the passengers who restrained the man what happened, and he eventually escorted the pair off of the plane, American Airlines officials told the New York Post.
A Charlotte-Mecklenburg police officer responded to the scene when the plane landed at Charlotte Douglas International Airport
‘Two customers traveling together were engaged in an altercation aboard American Airlines flight 310 with service from Miami to Charlotte on Oct. 2,’ a spokesperson said. ‘Local law enforcement responded and escorted the customers from the CLT airport.
‘We do not tolerate violence, and we thank our team members for their professionalism in managing a difficult situation.’
It is unclear whether the passenger was arrested for any wrongdoing.
DailyMail.com has reached out to Charlotte-Mecklenburg police for comment.