Shocking video footage emerged of a passenger brutally beating a Southwest Airlines flight attendant. Vyvianna Quinonez, 28, can be seen freaking out on a flight attendant in the video below. She was escorted off the Southwest Airlines flight 700 at the San Diego International Airport.
New video shows an altercation between Vyvianna Quinonez and a Southwest Airlines flight attendant. A union representative says the flight attendant lost two teeth when she was struck. Quinonez who was arrested on battery charges claims it was self-defense. pic.twitter.com/aCAHGHxF5b
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The video appears to show a passenger jump up from her seat and start punching the flight attendant in the face, while the passengers nearby try to pull the attacker down. The brawl is stopped by a man who forcefully intercedes, shouting, “Sit down, lady … don’t you dare touch her!”
It seems that the “freakout” was due to the unruly passenger ignoring a number of airline regulations and refusing to put up her tray table in the upright position before landing.
“So, now she’s bleeding everywhere in the back looking at us and this lady who was hit went back to her seat wearing a mask — nothing happened, it seems like,” Taro Arai, the passenger on the Sunday flight who took pictures of the incident, “I’m like huh, woah, I mean, she was so strong she could knock me out.”
Photos show Southwest Airlines flight attendant pummeled by passenger https://t.co/12l4KWbTSR pic.twitter.com/OQtTY1ApkO
— FOX 2 Detroit (@FOX2News) May 27, 2021
“This past weekend, one of our Flight Attendants was seriously assaulted, resulting in injuries to the face and a loss of two teeth,” Lyn Montgomery, president of a local Transport Workers Union (TWU), wrote in a Monday letter to Southwest Airlines CEO and Chairman Gary Kelly.
