Jet makes emergency landing after passenger’s threat to ‘kill everybody…unless you accept Jesus was a Black man’
AN ALASKA Airlines flight had to make an emergency landing on Saturday night after he allegedly threatened to “kill everybody ... unless you accept Jesus was a Black man.”
Flight 422 from Seattle, Washington, to , took off just after 11pm but the flyer is accused of people roughly 20 minutes into the flight.
Video from a passenger on the flight shows the -man shouting at those onboard, telling them he’d kill them “in the name of Jesus.”
The airplane “returned safely” to the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport and the passenger was taken into custody.
Flight 422 was canceled and those were flying to Chicago that night were booked on the next available flights to the city, the spokesperson said.
, the man was unarmed and was cooperative while being arrested.
They did not identify him because the man hasn’t been charged with anything related to the outbursts on the plane.
He was, however, reportedly booked into the King County Jail on suspicion of harassment.
No one is said to have been hurt during the incident.