Hate-spewing man on Newark-bound flight threatens crew, pilot

A New Jersey antheral flying from Miami to Newark has been arrested for threatening formation attendants with violence, harassing different passengers and yelling racist slurs portion banging connected the cockpit doorway and demanding to spot the pilot, national prosecutors announced Monday.

Luis A. Vaquero, 27, of Passaic County, was arrested Sunday aft landing astatine Newark Liberty International Airport, Acting U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey Vikas Khanna said.

He was charged with 1 number of interference with formation unit members and attendants by battle oregon intimidation.

The shocking incidental began mid-air connected Sunday, according to prosecutors. During the three-hour flight, Vaquero got into a verbal altercation with different passengers and formation attendants successful a heated speech of words that included “threats of violence” against a insignificant with a disablement and the “mocking [of] a radical of Jewish passengers,” according to the transgression complaint.

After observing Vaquero’s “hostile and intimidating behavior,” a pistillate formation attendant declined to service him an alcoholic beverage — a refusal that appeared to person angered Vaquero, authorities said.

“You amended ticker out, s–t’s gonna hap to you,” helium reportedly told the unit member, who past was forced to stay successful the backmost of the compartment for the remainder of the flight.

His alleged verbal altercations continued until the formation landed successful Newark, starring the unit to petition a instrumentality enforcement effect astatine the gate.

The concern lone escalated from there, according to the affidavit.

When Vaquero heard implicit the aircraft’s PA strategy that instrumentality enforcement officials were coming to escort him out, helium “forced his mode to the beforehand of the plane” and began banging connected the cockpit door, yelling for the aviator to travel outside.

After different formation attendant tried to intervene, Vaquero allegedly yelled astatine him, saying, “I volition truly interruption your f–ng jaw, n–a,’ portion continuing with his demands.

“I wanna spot that f–ng captain! Come extracurricular you b–h a– n–a,” helium reportedly said according to FBI-Newark acting Special Agent successful Charge Terence G. Reilly, who called the caller developments “a terrifying onslaught and attempted breach of the formation deck.”

When helium emerged, Vaquero “continued to marque threats to the skipper portion six inches from his look until instrumentality enforcement intervened,” prosecutors said.

Vaquero was escorted disconnected the formation and charged by complaint. He appeared Monday successful Newark national tribunal and has since been released.

The complaint of interfering with formation unit members carries a maximum condemnation of 20 years successful situation and a good of up to $250,000.