Unruly Passenger Leaves Delta Air Jet in Hawaii Looking Like a Bloody Crime Scene After Smashing Up Door

An unruly passenger on a recent Delta Air Lines flight from Minneapolis–Saint Paul to Honolulu, Hawaii, left the plane looking like a gruesome crime scene after smashing up a door and cutting himself on reinforced glass.

The incident is said to have occurred in the last few days, according to insiders, although thankfully, no other passengers or crew were injured during the suspect’s outburst, and no disruption was caused to Delta’s flights out of Honolulu.

One source described how the man had started to act strange a few hours into the eight-hour flight to Hawaii, and his behavior became increasingly erratic.

Fearing that the man was suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder or some type of psychotic episode, the flight attendants tried to calm the man down and de-escalate the situation without provoking the situation any further.

Their efforts worked until the plane was safely on the ground in Honolulu, at which point, the man allegedly attempted to open the emergency exit and in the process, smashed a specially reinforced viewing window which is built into the door of Boeing 767 airplanes.

The man was cut in the process and left a trail of blood on the door and around the galley area before the FBI boarded the plane and took him into custody.

A spokesperson for Delta was not immediately able to comment on the incident but it is understood that the man was not severely injured.

Boeing 767s have a rather unique design for the emergency exit in that the doors mechanically lift upwards into the fuselage of the jet.

Although the glass that the unruly passenger broke is reinforced and must have taken an incredible amount of strength to smash, it is simply a viewing window and is not required for the integrity of the airplane, as there is also a second, much smaller window.

In July 2017, perhaps one of the most famous unruly passenger incidents occurred aboard a Delta Air Lines Boeing 767, when Joseph Daniel Hudek IV attempted to open the emergency exit door around an hour into a trans-Pacific flight from Seattle to Beijing.

The incident became infamous because, in their attempt to stop Hudek from opening the emergency exit, one of the flight attendants smashed two wine bottles over his head, although it had little effect as he frenziedly tried to wrestle with the door mechanism.

Thankfully, a group or crew and passengers were able to eventually subdue Hudek, and he was taken into custody. Images of the galley in a state of disarray following the fight quickly went viral.