Southwest has made a habit of creating headlines as of late. In December, its computer system went down, stranding holiday passengers for days. On Sunday, a Southwest flight had to make an emergency landing in Cuba and two days before that, a passenger passed out and others vomited during extreme turbulence and an aborted landing.
A brawl broke out on a Southwest flight between two men after one of the men accused the other of “aggressively” bumping into his wife while the plane was boarding.
The incident took place on a Monday flight from Dallas, Texas, to Phoenix, Arizona. Footage from the scene shows the man who appears to be the aggressor punching a shorter, heavily-tattooed man several times and putting him in a headlock while other passengers scream at him to stop.
Witnesses told media outlets that both of the men were escorted from the plane but Dallas Police Department said that no one was arrested due to the incident.
The woman who recorded the video said that after the tattooed man bumped into the other man’s wife, he began mouthing off. The woman also says the taller man punched the tattooed man several times before she started recording.
Dallas, TX: March 6 - Another flight, another incident. This time on a Southwest Airline, a flight from Dallas to Phoenix. A fight breaks out between two men. The tattooed man "bumped into the man in the sport jacket’s wife by accident, and he started mouthing off." pic.twitter.com/JLdLWXgd0c
— DeL2000 (@DeL2000) March 8, 2023
The taller man can be heard in the video saying: “I will sit down in jail for you approaching my family. I will die for my family. Don’t play with my family! That’s why I beat your ass!”
Southwest said that despite the ruckus, the flight arrived in Phoenix on time. “We commend [our crew] for managing the situation and ensuring the safety and comfort of the other passengers in the cabin, while also allowing that flight to arrive on time,” a Southwest spokesperson said in a statement.
The video shows the unhinged dad attacking the other man while other passengers try to separate them, yelling, “Do not hit him again,” “Let go of him” and “Stop it now.”
But the assailant flies off the handle.
“You a p—-, you a p—-,” he shouts at the victim.
The woman who recorded the fracas told Fox News Digital that when the tattooed passenger accidentally bumped into the man’s wife, “he started mouthing off.”
She told the outlet that the dad punched the other man “four to five times” before she started to record the action.
When things settled a bit, the assailant claimed his victim approached his family “aggressively.”
“I will sit down in jail for you approaching my family. I will die for my family,” he says in another video. “Don’t play with my family! That’s why I beat your ass!”
Witnesses said both men were escorted off the plane, but the Dallas Police Department said no one was arrested, according to Fox News Digital.
“We commend our Crew for managing the situation as Safety professionals while also ensuring the comfort of the other passengers in the cabin,” a Southwest rep told The Post on Wednesday in an email.
“We don’t have further details to share, except that the flight arrived on-time and as scheduled,” the statement added.
Southwest made other headlines in recent days.
On Sunday, passengers on a flight from Havana, Cuba, to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, were forced to evacuate after a bird strike caused smoke to fill the cabin.
The Boeing 737, which had 147 passengers and six crew members onboard, landed safely back in Havana.
And two days earlier, a passenger aboard a flight from Maryland to North Carolina passed out due to turbulence while others were left vomiting.
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