Law enforcement and medical personnel met American Airlines flight 3046 from Charlotte on arrival in Philadelphia on Sunday after a passenger who may have been “hallucinating…bit a passenger” before “trying to fight everybody.”
Air traffic control, ackowledging the request, offered “Thank you. What a day, huh?” And handing the plane off to final approach “happy Father’s Day” to which the pilot responded “I’ll be sure to tell my daughters about this one.”
The passenger may have had a seizure and was assisted onboard by a passenger with medical training.
An American Airlines pilot requested law enforcement and EMTs upon the flight’s arrival to Philadelphia, on Sunday morning, telling air traffic control that a man on board had bitten a passenger and was “trying to fight everybody.”
“I’ll be sure to tell my daughters about this… pic.twitter.com/nIxcFulYCU
— CBS News (@CBSNews) June 21, 2026
Approach control: American 3046, descend and maintain 6,000.
American 3046: 6,000, American 3046. And can you pass along, we need EMTs, as well as law enforcement. I don’t know if he’s hallucinating or whatever, but he just bit a passenger and he’s trying to fight everybody. So, if we could have law enforcement, just as a precaution, to be with the EMTs.
Approach control: American 3046, I will pass that along.
American 3046: Thank you. What a day, huh?
Approach control: American 3046, happy Father’s Day. Contact final, 125.4.
American 3046: 125.4 for American 3046. I’ll be sure to tell my daughters about this one. We’ll see you.
The passenger, a male believed to be in their 70s, was seated in 5C of the Airbus A320 (N111US). And somehow a Dallas-bound passenger bit a flight attendant last month, too, and also back in March on a flight headed to from Florida to New York. And this happened on another Florida – New York flight. I suppose if the passengers had been zombies the flight attendants would know by now.
DEVELOPING: A United Airlines passenger was filmed biting a flight attendant and ripped off a piece of her uniform during an in-flight altercation; ‘S-ck my D—k B-tch, ….Kill You B-tch’
TMZ obtained footage from United Flight 762 from Miami to Newark, New Jersey Tuesday… pic.twitter.com/7wGicG6mCF
— Dom Lucre | Breaker of Narratives (@dom_lucre) July 10, 2024
Oddly enough the aircraft in question was one of the 20 most-delayed planes in America a few years ago, but this flight actually arrived early even though there was no emergency declaration for priority landing request for the flight – only normal descent clearance and frequency handoff.
Get another vaccine
Spirit passengers had to switch sir carriers.
Retired paramedic here. I’ve seen many, many diabetics over the years behave like that when their blood glucose was very low. Sadly, doctors and nurses who’ve never seen it misdiagnose it. I’m not saying that is what happened to this passenger, but it should have been the first thing ruled out.
Who are we to ‘yuck’ that daddy’s ‘yum’… happy father’s day to all!
We take the threat of “terrorism” very seriously in the skies. We have created a multi billion dollar government department to deal with it.
But dangerous flyer behavior? Maybe take them to jail and release them that day with a court appearance ticket where they will get a slap on the risk. And that’s if, and a big if, they even show up for court.
@George Romey — You so frequently suggest the American criminal justice system is ‘weak on crime,’ yet, we have a literal prison industrial complex in this country, and incarcerate more people than any country on earth, so…
(The United States has the highest total prison population in the world, holding over 1.8 million incarcerated people. China follows closely with an estimated 1.7 million; Brazil has the third-largest, over 800,000 inmates.)
@Dan: Yeah, I’ve heard of plenty of bonkers behavior from low blood glucose. I like that answer much better than my first thought: rabies.
@1990
Does the Chinese number include people in re-ed camps?
@jack the ladd — Only the best ‘schools’ for Xinjiang…