Savannah, Georgia
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According to court records, passengers on a small community flight to Miami attacked the flight attendant, kicking and punching the person in front of him, swallowing the rosary beads as the pilot returned to the airport in Savannah, Georgia.
The passengers were traveling with my sister. Her sister said she told her before the violent explosion, “Satan's pupils were chasing them on the plane, so I'll close my eyes and pray,” according to an affidavit from an FBI agent filed in U.S. District Court Tuesday.
No one was seriously injured on a Monday night flight run by American Airlines' regional airline, Envoy Air. The 31-year-old passenger was jailed on charges that included misdemeanor battery, obstruction of police misdemeanors and felony crimes of criminal property damage.
FBI agent Savannah Solomon explained the violent episode in an affidavit, saying that he is likely to charge a man for a federal crime that interferes with the flight crew.
Solomon wrote that eight passengers were on the plane, and that flight attendants were concerned immediately after takeoff.
As the flight attendant approached the man, he turned his seat, kicked the attendant in the chest, and sent the workers flying into the window across the aisle, the agent wrote. The passengers then kicked and began punching the person in front of him.
The pilot returned to Savannah Airport. After the plane landed, the man who kicked the flight attendant was charged towards the exit and threw a punch at another flight attendant before being restrained by other passengers, the affidavit says.
He was arrested by airport police and taken to hospital for “intake of rosary beads,” the affidavit says. Passengers were then booked at the Chatham County Jail.
Federal court records and online prison records did not list lawyers for passengers who were arrested.
His sister told FBI agents he was traveling to Haiti “to escape religious attacks of a spiritual nature.” According to the affidavit, the woman said the brothers “swallowed the Rosary Beads because they were weapons of spiritual war strength.”
The woman told the agent that the siblings did not suffer from mental health or medical issues.
