A Breeze Airways flight headed to Los Angeles diverted to an airport in Colorado after an unruly passenger waving a skateboard received into an altercation with flight attendants and different passengers and twice broke freed from his restraints, in accordance with 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 stated 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 workers whereas waving a skateboard. Airline workers positioned the person in restraints twice, however he was in a position to break away each instances.”
The airline, citing stories from crew who had been on board the flight, stated there was a bodily altercation that resulted in minor accidents to at least one 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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Nevertheless, the police stated no stories of assault or accidents to passengers or the flight crew had 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 to date in 2025, in accordance with the Federal Aviation Administration.
