Man duct-taped on flight to Chicago after trying to open door, passengers say

CHICAGO -- Video from passengers shows a antheral getting duct-taped aft a formation from Albuquerque to Chicago was disrupted Tuesday.

American Airlines formation 1219 was heading to O'Hare Airport from Albuquerque, New Mexico, didn't marque it precise acold aft an unruly rider tried to unfastened the level doorway midway thru the flight:

The formation was headed to Chicago Tuesday afternoon. The level made it up to 26,000 feet erstwhile a antheral onboard tried to unfastened a level door.

That's erstwhile hose unit and passengers jumped in, tackled the man, duck-taped him and forcefully restrained him until the level could onshore safely backmost successful Albuquerque.

Blaze Ward was 1 of the archetypal passengers to wrestle the antheral down.

"He already had the information mechanics down and had some hands connected the lever and helium was similar yanking it and helium was a large dude and helium had it beauteous good pulled and I don't cognize if you tin perceive it, but determination was a quality successful pressure, a whistling," Ward said.

The unruly rider was aboriginal taken into custody by constabulary who met the level erstwhile it landed.

According to a connection from the FAA the formation returned, "safely to Albuquerque International Sunport Airport" aft the crew, "reported a rider disturbance."

The FBI is besides present stepping successful to investigate.