The passengers are all safe and sound. This Saturday, October 9, a plane was forced to evacuate its 78 passengers “urgently” at New York La Guardia Airport. According to Republic Airways, the company which chartered the flight, the emergency evacuation was due to the disturbing behavior of a passenger.
This Embraer E-175 came from Indianapolis and to join La Guardia, at New York, when the crew “declared an emergency and landed (…) without incident in reaction to the behavior of a passenger towards the end of the flight, “the company indicated in a message sent to AFP. Behavior initially reported by the passengers.
“When exiting the active runway, the plane stopped on a taxiway and carried out an emergency evacuation as a precaution,” said Republic Airways, which assures us that the “passenger involved in the incident was taken into custody“. According to local media, a senior official said the passenger was” unruly. “The passenger was said to have made it clear to the crew member that he had a “device” on board the plane, report NBC New York.
