Chaos as Frontier Airlines passengers tie screaming man to seat who punched out window

Passengers onboard a formation from Denver to Houston this week were forced to restrain a antheral with shoelaces and zip ties aft helium started lashing retired and punched retired a window

Shocking images amusement the infinitesimal a antheral onboard a plane was restrained by his chap passengers aft helium punched retired 1 of the aircraft's windows.

Footage from the Frontier formation from Denver to Houston showed however the antheral besides lashed retired astatine passengers during the incidental connected Tuesday night. Passengers were forced to usage shoelaces and zip ties to restrain him.

He was besides filmed screaming astatine radical onboard the level arsenic they attempted to clasp him down. And photos amusement the breached window. Former US Army soldier Tanner Phillips was among those who restrained the unruly passenger, who helium said needed "a mates of guys" to unafraid him.

He told ABC13: "He was precise physical. I picked him up and enactment him connected the ground. It took a mates of guys to get his arms down him and secured. There's similar tons of women and kids connected the flight. Obviously, truthful I conscionable wanted to assistance arsenic overmuch arsenic I could. We enactment hands connected him and were capable to unafraid him. Someone had zip ties, and idiosyncratic other took their bootlace disconnected and helped america out."

Fellow rider Jessica Brown told FOX: "It was perfectly chaotic. The astir terrifying happening I've ever been through. We turned around, and we saw this feline conscionable punching retired the window, and instantly we screamed for help. I conscionable thought we are not having different 9/11. I was conscionable truthful thankful that my hubby and the different men jumped successful immediately, truthful helium didn't interruption the 2nd sheet of the window."

Houston Police Department was called and the formation managed to onshore astatine George Bush Intercontinental Airport safely. Police said the assertive rider had been trying to talk with a pistillate successful the spot successful beforehand of him, but she did not respond. This is said to person led to him lashing retired astatine the spot and the level window.

Frontier Airlines decided not to property charges against him.