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After a male passenger removed his clothes mid-flight, a US Airways flight from Charlotte to Los Angeles was diverted to Albuquerque, N.M.
Dan Jiron, a spokesman for the Albuquerque airport, says 50-year-old Keith Wright of New York disrobed Tuesday while sitting in his seat in the back of the aircraft.
Jiron says Wright was unresponsive when a flight attendant asked him repeatedly to get dressed and refused to be covered with a blanket.
Jiron says law enforcement employees who were passengers on the plane helped subdue and handcuff Wright before the flight landed.
The FBI says Wright is in federal custody on a charge of interfering with flight crew members and attendants.
Passenger Ginny Keegan of Detroit was sitting in the front of the plane, when there was commotion coming from the back. The people on the flight were notified of a violent passenger as the plane began to approach Albuquerque, but Keegan said no one was fearful.
“No one was really panicking. The flight attendants seemed to handle it very well,” she said. Keegan said the man was “completely naked” as he was taken in handcuffs off the plane.
As the plane took off again, Keegan said the usual announcement to please fasten your seat belts came over the loudspeakers with a twist. The message included “a reminder to everybody to ‘please keep your clothing on."
