Frontier flight diverted to Atlanta after passenger discovered with field cutter By Reuters

(Reuters) – A Frontier Airways flight heading to Florida was diverted to the town of Atlanta after a passenger on board the plane was noticed in possession of a field cutter, the airline stated in a press release on Saturday.

“The passenger in query was taken into custody by Atlanta legislation enforcement,” a Frontier spokesperson stated in a press release.

Nobody was injured within the incident and passengers had been supplied a brand new flight on Saturday morning to Tampa, Florida.

Passenger Lillian Hoffman advised NBC Information that when the suspect went to the toilet, the particular person sitting beside him had alerted her that the suspect had a knife and was “threatening to stab folks.”

“So I went as much as speak to the flight attendants within the entrance of the airplane,” Hoffman advised NBC Information.

“They ended up telling me that they had been going to land the aircraft instantly and we had been down in 20 minutes.”

The airline didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark about whether or not the suspect had threatened to stab others on board the plane.

Practically 3,000 folks died within the Sept. 11, 2001 assaults, when al Qaeda hijackers wielding field cutters flew planes into the New York’s World Commerce Middle towers and into the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia. A fourth aircraft crashed in Pennsylvania.

Field cutters are banned from U.S. industrial flights.