Texas Man Slugs Flight Crew, Opens Emergency Exit

Fox Business reports:

A United Airlines passenger from Texas was restrained by other passengers after he allegedly assaulted a flight attendant and attempted to jump out of the emergency exit before the plane took off from San Francisco International Airport to Houston International Airport. According to a dramatic video posted by Naya Jimenez, the passenger, later identified as 47-year-old Cody Benjamin Lovins, become upset at a United Airlines flight attendant and began repeatedly punching her.

As she walked toward her assigned seat, Jimenez noticed Lovins’ wife was sitting in her assigned seat. Jimenez said she showed the woman her boarding pass and asked if she could slide past her to sit in the next seat, but the Lovins’ wife blocked her.  A gate employee then boarded the plane and approached Lovins and his wife, telling them the woman was not assigned to the seat she was sitting in. Lovins’ anger eventually grew to a boiling point and began repeatedly punching employees.

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