In USA, a 33-year-old man from Leominster, Massachusetts, has been arrested and charged with attempting to open an emergency exit door on a United Airlines flight from Los Angeles to Boston and then attempting to stab a flight attendant in the neck. Francisco Severo Torres, 33, was charged with one count of interference and attempted interference with flight crew members and attendants using a dangerous weapon. Torres was arrested on Monday evening at Boston Logan International Airport and, following an initial appearance today before US District Court Magistrate Judge Dein, was detained pending a hearing set for March 9, 2023.
The man was arrested on Sunday evening at Boston Logan International Airport. Approximately 45 minutes before landing, the flight crew received an alarm in the cockpit that a starboard side door located between the first class and coach sections of the aircraft was disarmed. Upon inspection, a flight attendant found that the door's locking handle had been moved out of the fully locked position, approximately a quarter of the way towards the unlocked position and that the emergency slide arming lever had been moved to the "disarmed" position.
Torres told investigators he was trying to defend himself and tried to stab the flight attendant because he believed they were trying to kill him, the complaint states. The flight attendant felt the object Torres was holding in his hand “hit him on his shirt collar and tie three times,” according to the complaint.
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