"You want to know what hell is?" Woman goes ballistic on a Spirit Airlines flight from Texas
A Spirit Airlines flight had to make an emergency landing after a woman experiencing a medical issue went on a profanity-laced tirade against passengers and the flight crew, the airline said. The episode was captured in a video that was posted to Facebook on Monday.
The flight left Houston on Monday morning and was bound for Minneapolis but had to land in Rochester, Minn., due to a guest experiencing a medical emergency, according to Stephen Schuler, director of communications for the airline.
The passenger was removed from the aircraft with the assistance of law enforcement, Schuler said in an email statement.
In a 1 minute 20 second video posted to Facebook by another passenger on the flight, Chianti Washington, the woman is seen running down the isle screaming profanities to the crew.
"Get me the f--- off this got d--- f-----g plane," the woman says. "You want to be s----y and b----y to me. You'll see me f------g p----d."
Later in the video, the woman pushes past two passengers and rushes to the front of the airplane and begins jumping and shouting.
"Let me the f--- off this. ...You b------s can go to f------g hell. Get off me you f-----g b---h," the woman yells in the video. "You want to know what hell is? I've f-----g been there 10 f------g times and lived."
Soon afterward the woman begins to break down in tears as she walks back to her seat, while passengers look and talk among themselves in disbelief, the video shows.
Schuler said the airline apologized to the other passengers.
This story was originally published June 26, 2018 at 1:31 PM.