American Airlines says Flight 622 from Phoenix to New York was sent to Wichita on Tuesday evening because of the unruly passenger.
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A band on the American Airlines flight to New York, We Are Augustines, live-tweeted the commotion Tuesday night.
According to traveler Troy Petrunoff, about an hour and a half into the flight, a stewardess announced there was a security concern sparked by a disruptive passenger.
An air traffic control transcript was released, detailing the pilot’s requesting an emergency landing.
A passenger was arrested for making threats that forced an outbound Phoenix flight to land halfway through the trip.
The Twitter account of the band Augustines claims a passenger threatened “he wants to kill people”.
The plane landed at Wichita, Kansas, where the man, believed to be w Jason Baroletti, 38, of Holbrook, New York state, was taken off and arrested.
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It continued on to John F. Kennedy global Airport, where it landed just before midnight, American Airlines said in an email.
