A passenger on a commercial flight from Alaska to Oregon was arrested Monday after witnesses said he tried to open an emergency exit during the plane’s descent and other passengers had to help restrain him using.....
shoelaces and seat-belt extensions.
Passengers and crew members aboard the Alaska Airlines flight from Anchorage to Portland told investigators that Alexander Michael Herrera, 23, made “unusual statements” before trying to open the door Monday morning, FBI spokeswoman Beth Anne Steele said.
Flight 132 was preparing to land at Portland International Airport when the Arizona man set off an alarm by pulling the door handle in the emergency-exit row, Steele said.
Witness Henry Pignataro said he and another man held down the passenger and asked flight attendants for restraints. He said they brought three sets of shoelaces, which Pignataro and the other man used to bind Herrera’s legs. The flight attendants then brought extra seatbelt extensions, and the witnesses applied those to Herrera, as well.
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