A violent altercation erupted as American Airlines Flight 2249 arrived in Miami, with one passenger grabbing a woman by the neck. Chaos filled the cabin as others shouted “Call the police!” and scrambled to intervene. The when a fight broke out after the flight from Nassau landed on August 25, 2025.
One man suddenly grabbed a woman by the neck and shoved her backward. Another passenger quickly intervened, pushing him into a row of seats. Shouts erupted from everyone around them,
- “What the f— are you doin’?”
- “Call the police… somebody needs to get this man!”
A flight attendant announced that passengers in the back had connections to make and everyone needed to clear the way.
Miami-Dade Sheriff’s deputies boarded the aircraft after it reached the gate. But by then, the situation had already fizzled. One of the men had fled the scene, and the other declined to press charges. No arrests were made.
On August 25, 2025, #AmericanAirlines flight #AA2249 landed at #Miami Int'l Airport. As passengers were attempting to deplane, an argument erupted between a man and a woman in the aisle. Video footage shows the man grabbing the woman by the neck.
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— FlightMode (@FlightModeblog) August 28, 2025
What sparked the violence isn’t clear from the video. According to American Airlines, “On August 25, law enforcement met American Airlines flight 2249 upon arrival in Miami due to a disruptive passenger.”
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@ 1990 — Blame it on Obama.. Everything is his fault, or is that Biden?
No One Cares.
According to American Airlines, “On August 25, law enforcement met American Airlines flight 2249 upon arrival in Miami due to a disruptive passenger.”
This seemed to occur while passengers were deplaning not on arrival.
No one really ever gets punished even if arrested. Just rinse and repeat.
God help us all if spirit shut down.
@Ari — Uh… did you seen the news? Don’t worry, it’s not a contagion… the crazies can’t afford regular airlines and will probably just stay home… right?RIGHT?? *nervous laugh*
Why they be interfering with a man and his woman.
She threw the first punch. Leave that out on purpose? The man defended himself then morons jumped in. I’d have been swinging on the white folks who are entirely out of line taking the instigators side.
Chimps gonna chimp it up. Airlines need to bring back segregation.
@armidillo wow, just wow
“Snakes on a Plane” worry me far less than “Crazies on a Plane”.
The dude was punched in the back of the head with a cell phone. “No idea what started the confrontation!” Really, Gary? Throwing hands wouldn’t do it? And he has a pretty composed response, creating space between him and the woman. He isn’t CHOKING her, he just extended his hand. Her fault she got so close for the sucker punch. Also, Armadillo of the Air should be hanged, drawn and quartered. Done with the “funny” racists, time to bury them.
Armadillo is an internet coward. I bet he’s 400 lbs and still yells at his mom to make him a sandwich. People like that are legitimate wastes of oxygen, so they project that truth onto entire racial groups surrounding them. “Well, if ALL black people are “chimps”, and I’m at least better than a chimp, well I must be better than black people”. It’s a weak cowards way of dealing with their insecurities. Then they play it off as humor so they can always fall back on “it was a joke”. Zero accountability for the words you’re so proud to spout in secret. If we plan to segregate anybody, let’s ship out the keyboard warriors and internet cowards like him. I don’t know whether to pity the guy or bury him, but he should be removed from the internet for all our sakes, including his own.
She starts striking the man, he pushes her away. Then multiple people jump in on him.
Imagine if she never started with arrest worthy violent how none of this would have happened.
I’m a chimp, but I’ve Darwin’d my way to being able to write on this forum.
The guy who escaped – this is an AA flight – so they know who was there. So they COULD identify him. But as previously mentioned by a poster above, LEOs do nothing useful and it’s rinse/repeat.
Who started it? That’s a great second-grade question, and not relevant. If the lady swung at the man (with a cellphone?!?) he should have let her have her RQ moment and pressed charges. If she didn’t and he instigated, she should have pressed charges.
When nobody presses charges and LEOs are incompetent (airport duty is not where the creme de la creme LEOs go to die) nothing bad happens to bad people.
I’m a chimp. Come FAFO, Armadildo.
Armadillos mother should have swallowed and save us!
So tired…
He doesn’t grab her by the neck. He grabs her shirt just under the neck with one hand, and holds on. That is an important distinction because grabbing by the neck is choking, but he didn’t choke her.
@alan … you care. not only did you click on the article, you even left a comment!