Plane diverted over screaming passenger

By Joy Jernigan, senior travel editor

A passenger who reportedly was screaming obscenities prompted a Southwest Airlines flight to divert to Amarillo, Texas, on Tuesday.

Flight 3683 was enroute from Los Angeles to Kansas City when a male passenger reportedly began making a disturbance. The Transportation Security Administration told NBC News that man was screaming.

Amarillo Aviation Director Patrick Rhodes told the Amarillo Globe-News that the flight crew asked for emergency clearance to land?around 3:30?p.m. CDT. Despite earlier reports that the man was attempting to break into the cockpit, Rhodes told the newspaper that?the passenger "was being disruptive and unruly on the flight, but he was not specifically trying to break into the cockpit.?

Passenger Doug Oerding told the newspaper that the man started screaming obsenities at other passengers during the flight. ?All of us guys were looking at him like are we going to have to do something,? Oerding said.

The?Globe-News reported that Ali Reza Shahsauri, 29, of California, was arrested on a charge of interfering with a flight crew. The FBI was investigating.

Southwest spokesperson Ashley Dillon told NBC News that the plane?was carrying?136 passengers.

After a delay of just over an hour, the?Southwest flight?continued on to Kansas City.

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Source: http://overheadbin.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/10/18/8386225-southwest-plane-diverted-due-to-screaming-passenger

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