Video shows fight on board Spirit Airlines plane that landed in Boston, passengers now banned
BOSTON - Spirit Airlines says passengers involved in a fight on board a plane that landed at Boston's Logan Airport Tuesday will no longer be allowed to travel with the airline.
The fight happened as people were getting off Flight 3907 from Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Other passengers captured the fight on video.
"It was like a melee, a scrum going on," said passenger Laura Grome.
Spirit flight attendant intervenes in fight
The video shared to WBZ-TV by the Grome family shows a flight attendant standing in the aisle between two men who are trying to hit each other. Other passengers can be heard yelling as the fight between the pair spills into the seats. Laura Grome said the two men were arguing throughout the entire flight before things got physical.
"Punching each other like this and some of the passengers trying to calm them down," said Laura Grome. "Others were jumping over the seats."
After the fight breaks up, a flight attendant says police are on their way, and urges other passengers to continue exiting the plane.
"If you're not part of that fight, please get off," the flight attendant says. "Police are coming on board."
"We were kind of, like, boxed in," said passenger Nicole Grome. "This was our row, these were the guys, they started throwing fists."
Fighting passengers banned from Spirit
WBZ-TV has reached out to Massachusetts State Police to see if there are any charges for those involved.
"We do not tolerate disruptive behavior of any kind, and the passengers involved are no longer welcome on any of our flights," Spirit said in a statement.
"I saw one of the guys just walk right off the plane scot-free," said Nicole Grome. "I was like, what, what's going on here, they're really actually doing nothing about this?"
Increase in reports of disruptive passengers on flights
Reports of disruptive passengers have skyrocketed since the COVID pandemic. The FAA announced in 2022 it was making a zero-tolerance policy against unruly passengers permanent.
Earlier this month, a man from England was ordered to pay more than $20,000 to United Airlines for an outburst that forced a London-to-Newark, New Jersey flight to be diverted to Maine. And in February, cameras captured a wild brawl on Southwest Airlines on a flight from Oakland to Kauai.