An alarming video has been circulating the internet showing a father trying to hijack a plane. A routine flight turned extremely dangerous as one man threatened the life of a flight attendant, as well as all passengers as he attempted to storm the cockpit.
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Passengers Save The Day As They Wrestled Father Who Tried To Hijack Plane
One moment the passengers on a Volaris aircraft were enjoying a peaceful flight. Then the next moment, they were fighting for their lives. The flight had been leaving from El Bajío in Central Mexico and was headed to Tijuana, according to the Daily Mail. However, the father decided to abandon his wife and children as he tried to hijack the plane.
The hijacker, named Mario, wanted to change the plane's course of direction. Instead of Tijuana, he wanted to send the plane to San Diego, California. In his attempt to storm the cockpit, Mario grabbed ahold of one of the flight attendants.
While holding onto the frightened worker, the man grabbed hold of the aircraft's door handle. He threatened to jump out of the plane, ending his and the flight attendant's life. Luckily, the other passengers on the plane were not going to stand for it.
The video shows multiple passengers and crew members racing to help the captured flight attendant. Once the crew member was removed from the scene, a passenger and other crew members detained the father who tried to hijack the plane.
He appeared frantic as he fought against them. You can hear screaming and crying from other frightened passengers, including the hijacker's children.
Emergency Landing
All of the commotion caused the flight to make an emergency landing in Guadalajara. There the father who attempted to hijack the plane was taken into custody. Once the remaining passengers and crew were deemed safe, the plane proceeded to their intended destination.
While the attempted hijacker's motives may not have been revealed, one thing is for certain — this moment was absolutely terrifying.
This was a Boeing 717, the last one was manufactured in 2006. It was originally a McDonnell Douglas MD-95 before the merger.
I haven't seen the reports on this specific incident, yet, but engine fires are mechanical issues: either something inside the engine that doesn't belong there, or poor maintenance practices, or both. Wing tips striking the ground may be a combination of weather (wind, visibility) and/ or just incompetent piloting. This is something that just wasn't occurring, before 2 things happened, on a regular basis as it is now: late '60s "Affirmative Action" hiring (morphed into DEI); and the deregulation of airlines in the US in the early '80s. When airlines maintained their own planes with their own states of mechanics, there was a cohesive sense of company "pride" and team work, where everyone was part of moving planes and people safely from point A to point B together. Incompetent people got weeded out quickly, because they reflected poorly on the team, which no one wanted. That concept and feeling vanished, between the 2 factors I named. It's absence is "felt" from manufacturing clear through all aspects of the industry today.