A Breeze Airways flight headed to Los Angeles diverted to an airport in Colorado after an unruly passenger waving a skateboard obtained into an altercation with flight attendants and different passengers and twice broke freed from his restraints, in response to the airline and native authorities.
Breeze Airways Flight 704, which took off from Norfolk, Virginia, at 9:17 a.m. Wednesday, landed in Grand Junction, Colorado.
The Grand Junction Police Division mentioned in an announcement it responded to the airport there about 11:15 a.m. native time after receiving a report that an “intoxicated male passenger turned agitated, yelling racist slurs at airline employees whereas waving a skateboard. Airline employees positioned the person in restraints twice, however he was capable of break away each instances.”
The airline, citing reviews from crew who have been on board the flight, mentioned there was a bodily altercation that resulted in minor accidents to 1 passengers and a flight attendant.
Passengers disembark after a Breeze Airways flight diverted to Grand Junction, Colorado, on Aug. 13, 2025.
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Nonetheless, the police mentioned no reviews of assault or accidents to passengers or the flight crew have been made to the regulation enforcement.
After the airplane landed in Colorado, the passenger was taken into custody by Grand Junction police on the path of the FBI and brought to the Mesa County Detention Facility.
Airways have reported greater than 1,000 incidents involving unruly passengers thus far in 2025, in response to the Federal Aviation Administration.
