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A Southwest Airlines passenger assaults an airline employee in the head and ends up hospitalized

2021-11-14T18:08:37.120Z


A passenger allegedly punched the airline worker while boarding a flight from Dallas to New York, according to police.


By Alicia Victoria Lozano -

NBC News

A Southwest Airlines employee was assaulted by a passenger Saturday afternoon after a "verbal altercation," according to the airline.

The incident occurred during the boarding of Southwest Flight 4976 from Dallas Love Field to New York's LaGuardia Airport.

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According to Dallas police, the passenger boarded the flight around 12:40 p.m. and went directly to the rear, where she argued with a flight attendant who instructed her to leave the plane.

The passenger then walked to the front of the plane and got into a verbal fight with another airline employee before hitting that person on the head, according to police.

Police detained the passenger, who faces one charge of aggravated assault.

The victim, who Southwest Airlines identified only as an operations agent, was taken to a local hospital and is in stable condition, according to authorities.

Loading luggage onto a Southwest Airlines plane at Denver International Airport, Wednesday, Oct. 6, 2021. David Zalubowski / AP

"We have a boss with her at the hospital with the full support of her Southwest family sending our thoughts, prayers and love," an airline spokesperson explained in an emailed statement.

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"Southwest Airlines maintains a zero tolerance policy regarding any type of harassment or assault and fully supports our employee as we cooperate with local authorities regarding this unacceptable incident," he added.

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Earlier this year, a passenger punched a Southwest flight attendant aboard a May 23 flight from Sacramento, California, to San Diego.

The flight attendant lost two teeth and suffered other injuries to her face, according to court documents.

The incident marked an escalation in the unruly behavior of the airline's passengers and prompted the president of the flight attendants union to ask for more federal marshals on the planes.

"The unprecedented number of incidents has reached an intolerable level, and passenger defaults are increasingly aggressive," wrote Lyn Montgomery, president of the Transportation Workers Union of America, Local 556, in a letter sent in May to CEO of Southwest Airlines, Gary Kelly.

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According to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), there have been at least 5,114 unruly passenger reports since the beginning of the year across all airlines and more than 970 investigations initiated by the FAA in 2021, compared to 183 investigations in 2020.

Source: telemundo

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