Passengers Subdue Man With Yemeni Passport In Sunday’s Third In-Flight Incident

Airplane passengers subdued an unruly man with a Yemeni passport Sunday night, according to the AP.

The unruly passenger, who has been identified as a 28 year-old man named Rageit Almurisi, reportedly banged on the cockpit door during an American Airlines Flight from Chicago to San Francisco. He was then brought to the ground by several members of the flight crew and other passengers and placed in plastic handcuffs. He was arrested after the plane landed at its intended destination.

The incident came just hours after a similar occurrence took place aboard a flight from Houston to Chicago, wherein a man was subdued after attempting to open a door at a front of a plane, forcing an emergency landing in St. Louis.

In addition, a flight from Detroit to San Diego was interrupted Sunday when a flight attendant found a suspicious note in one of the plan’s lavatories, prompting an emergency landing in Albuquerque.

Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the man who attempted to detonate an explosive hidden in his underwear aboard a Detroit-bound flight in 2009, was suspected of having ties to extremists in Yemen.