A private jet on a cross-country flight made an emergency landing in North Platte on Monday after a passenger became combative, throwing things at passengers and threatening their lives.
The 23-year-old man, who is from Las Vegas, has been charged in U.S. District Court in Nebraska with interfering with flight crew members and attendants. The 12-person jet was en route from Las Vegas to New York, but problems began about 45 minutes after departure.
According to the federal arrest affidavit, the man yelled and cursed at others on the plane, threatening to "kill them and their children" by chopping off their heads. He threw whatever he could reach at passengers, pounded on the windows and banged his head on the walls. One of the pilots tried to calm him, with no success, and realizing that the situation was out of control, declared an emergency.
Because the doors to the jet's cockpit weren't fortified, the pilot told the men on the flight to do whatever it took to restrain the man. A flight attendant armed herself with an oxygen bottle, and the pilot went back to the cockpit, where he barricaded himself and the flight crew inside.
The jet landed at Lee Bird Field in North Platte, where three North Platte police officers and three Lincoln County sheriff's officers were waiting. When authorities boarded the jet, the man was yelling something incomprehensible as he stood among four seated passengers near the cockpit. The man didn't acknowledge the officers, who used a Taser to subdue him.
The man was taken to Great Plains Hospital to be checked out before being taken to Lincoln County Jail. Authorities found 45 grams of marijuana and $13,250 in the man's luggage.
According to the affidavit, the jet was operated by Jet Edge Company, which provides luxury jet transportation. Jet Edge is owned by Geh Air Transportation LLC in care of the Clinton Group of New York, the affidavit indicated.
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