A passenger on a Spirit Airlines flight from Nashville to Las Vegas punched a flight attendant in the face and had to be physically taken down by crew. It looks like this happened about a month ago, but I haven’t found any news or blog coverage of the incident.
Video of the incident from a passenger’s seat shows the perpetrator up in the aisle arguing with crew. A Black female flight attendant is the one facing him. She’s clearly trying to manage him. A pilot steps into the frame and takes charge. He physically moves on the passenger, ending the confrontation.
He ain’t ever gonna ride on a plane again and will be on the greyhound for life pic.twitter.com/Gtm33shNJj
— Boochie is the Name (@stoppfeenin) November 30, 2025
Video doesn’t show what happens next but there’s an easy violation of 49 U.S.C. § 46504. Generally crew restrain the passenger, often with help from able‑bodied passengers if needed. The captain either returns to the gate or coordinates for law enforcement to meet the aircraft on arrival. The passenger is arrested, turned over to the FBI or airport police, and the airline bans them for life.
One of the more pointed comments under the clip notes that the passenger reserves his physical aggression for “the only Black flight attendant” in view and goes on to say Black women have “no one but each other.” Whether or not you buy that as insight into this particular man’s motives, that’s how a people are reading this. People want to see someone in authority step in hard when a line like this is crossed and generally cheer the pilot here.
It’s an ‘on-brand’ incident for Spirit Airlines. Every major airline has its own litany of air rage clips, but Spirit’s yellow cabin and bare‑bones branding have become visual shorthand for “everything that’s wrong with U.S. air travel.” I had perfectly nice Spirit flights just before the Thanksgiving holiday. But when this video goes viral, people don’t need more context. It slots perfectly into the running joke: buy the cheapest ticket, and you’re buying into a higher risk of exactly this sort of chaos.
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@Matt – *Ba dum tsh* Good way to start the week, @1990!
What the hell is wrong with people?
Hard to tell, but are both participants black people?
$50 fares breed $50 flyers. Garbage like this should take a Greyhound.
Jerry Springer may have died in 2023, but his legacy lives on.
@L737 — @Matt’s still got it.
@David white — Would it matter? (No.)
This happens because our Judges and DAs take NONE of this seriously. Blue and red states. These thugs are “victims” in their minds and the victims are just chumps and losers. This person will be let out on no to little bail, receive no jail time and be allowed to fly again.
Wow i must of been living under a rock in April, as i had no idea what so ever Jerry had departed into that great waiting room in the sky. Yes he probably could have made an episode or two out of the passenger shenanigans of Spirit Airlines flights and showing the world the best of what America has to offer like in this example.
Of course, this wouldn’t have happened if everyone were better dressed.
@George Romey — “Wrong again, as usual.” Ample prosecutions, convictions, and justice. You just can’t help but lie to yourself and others. Oof. “Quiet… pi..”
Require a minimum FICO score of 750 to board an aircraft, and a lot of this stops.
aholes like that.. just need to fly them up to 10,000ft and tell them to deplane.
sick of them!
Denver Refugee Nope. We have Karens with 800 FICO scores who act like children.
@1990 You must be a boomer watching network news. The number of people arrested for battery on a LEO, these kind of air incidents including air rage that involves violence, and acts of violence against others where there is no bail and then probation is staggering. I guess that animal that plunged a knife in the neck of an innocent woman on a commuter train in CLT over the summer in your mind was a “victim.” That poor woman now dead was just a chump and a racist.
Huh. And they wonder why they are bankrupt on on the verge of collapse.
THIS is the clientele they cater to.
@George Romey — What about… what about… what about… “Quiet, piggie!”
Just a normal day in da ‘hood.
And I absolutely, positively guarantee you two things:
1) This is not the first time he’s done this sort of thing.
2) He will never see a day in jail.
N!
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