Shocking moment brawl erupts on a Southwest Airlines flight from Dallas to Phoenix – as man reigns punches down on victim in front of his kids after he ‘accidentally bumped into his wife’
- Brawl erupts on Southwest Airlines flight as one man puts another in a headlock
- Footage comes amid a spate of fights and disasters on-board US flights
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Shocking video footage has captured the moment a father attacks a passenger unprovoked in front of his children during a Southwest Airlines flight.
The violent confrontation saw the man put another in a headlock as others on-board are forced to intervene yelling ‘do not hit him again.’
It comes after a spate of fights and disasters on-board American planes, with a 33-year-old recently charged for trying to open a window mid-flight and threatening to ‘kill every man’ on a United Airlines journey.
The latest clip documents a flight from Dallas to Phoenix on Monday and has since gone viral on social media.
A father in a beige blazer is seen grabbing a heavily tattooed man and placing him in a headlock as he repeatedly shouts: ‘You a p***y.’
The violent confrontation saw the man put another in a headlock as others on-board are forced to intervene yelling ‘do not hit him again’
The attacker accused his victim of ‘aggressively’ confronting his wife and children
The attacker, who was with his wife and children, accused the tattooed man of ‘aggressively’ confronting his family – though witnesses insist the victim did nothing wrong.
Several passengers are filmed attempting to step in and dissolve the confrontation.
But just as the scene starts to calm, the man in the blazer suddenly swings a punch at the tattooed man.
A voice can be heard shouting: ‘Do not hit him again, do not hit him again. Stay back.’
Later clips show the man in the blazer attempt to defend his actions as he says: ‘Tell them what happened! He approached me with my family.
‘Don’t play with my family.
‘I will down in jail for you approaching my family. I would die for my family.
‘I will beat your a**.’
Dallas police confirm they responded to the incident but no arrests were made.
Witnesses told Dailymail.com that the attack was unprovoked.
Caitlin Johnson, who uploaded the video to her Instagram and TikTok pages, said: ‘He walked up and accidentally bumped into the man’s wife.
‘The man started mouthing off to him and he just ignored it.
‘After they both got on the plane, the man walked back with his wife and two kids and came back up and started yelling to the man with tattoos, asking: ‘What’s your address?’ and he actually gave it to him.
‘Then he started punching the man probably 4-5 times before we even started recording.’
She added: ‘The man with tattoos literally did nothing wrong. It was nuts.’
A spokesman for the airline refused to elaborate any more on the incident.
Francisco Severo Torres, 33, from Leominster, Massachusetts, could be seen ranting and raving while in his emergency exit seat during a United flight from Los Angeles to Boston
A photo taken by another person on board shows six people in the galley of the plane attempting to restrain Torres as the aircraft came into land
‘Nothing to share other than to say our Flight Crews are well trained in de-escalation and we commend them for managing the situation and ensuring the Safety and Comfort of the other Passengers in the cabin, while also allowing that Flight 117 from DAL to PHX to arrive on-time,’ a statement said.
Dallas Police told Dailymail.com: ‘On March 6, the Dallas Police Department responded after an incident occurred on a flight from Love Field Airport.
‘No arrest was made.’
It is the third dramatic incident on a Soutwest flight which has garnered headlines in the last week.
On Sunday passengers on a flight from Havana, Cuba, to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, were forced to evacuate after a bird collided with the engine and nose of the plane.
Clips posted to social media show plumes of smoke filling the cabin while passengers were on-board.
And on Friday a 75-minute flight from Baltimore to Raleigh turned into a nine-hour nightmare after the plane began to ‘shake like crazy’ resulting in several passengers vomiting and one passing out.
And other airlines have also experienced a spate of disasters this week.
On Monday two United Airlines planes were involved in a slow-speed collision at Boston Logan International Airport on Monday.
On-board footage shows panicked passengers engulfed in smoke with oxygen masks lowered and parents attempting to help their children. It was reported not all masks were properly released, and some had bloodied knuckles from banging on the roof in desperation.
Meanwhile a flight from LA to Boston this week made headlines after a passenger threatened to ‘kill every man on this plane.’
Francisco Severo Torres, 33, from Leominster, Massachusetts was charged with one count of interference and attempted interference with flight crew members using a dangerous weapon after he stabbed a flight attendant with a broken spoon.
In video shot by a fellow passenger sitting only feet away, Torres can be heard threatening to commit mass murder while goading others to try and stop him.
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