The passenger who exited the aircraft was apprehended by law enforcement officials and transported to a local hospital where he was treated for his injuries.Īuthorities are investigating the incident and working to determine the passenger's motive, officials said.
No other passengers were injured, officials said. The flight, operated by SkyWest Airlines, was heading to Salt Lake City, an FAA spokesperson said.Īccording to the FAA, an altercation occurred on board the Embraer 175 regional jet shortly before the passenger tried to exit the aircraft. Los Angeles Airport Police and the Los Angeles Fire Department responded immediately. local time, the man opened the door of the aircraft, activated the emergency slide, and exited onto the taxiway, the spokesman said.
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On Thursday, a police chase sparked after a driver ran through a chain-link fence at a FedEx cargo facility and drove onto the airfield, AP reported.Alexandra Meeks wrote the following article in CNN:Ī passenger was injured Friday after jumping out of a United Express flight that was taxiing from a gate area at the Los Angeles International Airport, an LAX police spokesman told CNN.Īt about 7:10 p.m. Alexandra Meeks wrote the following article in CNN:A passenger was injured Friday after jumping out of a United Express flight that was taxiing from a gate area at the Los Angeles International Airport, an LAX police spokesman told CNN.
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The incident is the second disruption at Los Angeles International Airport in two days. The FBI is investigating the matter, a spokesperson told AP. The Utah-bound airplane returned to its gate after the incident. It's unclear what prompted the man's actions, but the FAA told CNN that an altercation occurred on board the Embraer 175 regional jet just before the man tried to escape. He was taken into custody by authorities on the taxiway before being treated for non-life-threatening injuries and later hospitalized.
According to ABC News, 33-year-old Luis Antonio Victoria Dominguez of La Paz, Mexico, broke his leg Friday when he opened the plane’s emergency exit and jumped to the tarmac. The man tried to breach the cockpit by pounding on the doors, then managed to open the airplane's service door and leaped down the emergency slide onto the tarmac, AP reported. LOS ANGELES A passenger was taken to the hospital Friday night after jumping out of a moving plane at Los Angeles International Airport, authorities said. United Airlines flight 5365 had just pushed back from its Los Angeles International Airport gate around 7pm, when things took a turn. United Express flight 5365, operated by SkyWest Airlines, pulled away from the gates around 7 pm on Friday when a man unsuccessfully tried to break into the cockpit, Associated Press reported. Visit Insider's homepage for more stories.Ī passenger was hospitalized after jumping out of a moving airplane at the Los Angeles International Airport. The passenger tried to break into the airplane's cockpit before exiting onto the tarmac.Īuthorities took the passenger into custody, and he was hospitalized. A passenger was hospitalized after jumping out of a moving airplane at the Los Angeles International Airport. TriggerPhoto/Getty ImagesĪ passenger leaped from a moving plane at a Los Angeles airport, Associated Press reported. A passenger who tried to break into an airplane cockpit, then jumped from the moving plane on a runway at Los Angeles International Airport, was sentenced Wednesday to 18 months in federal prison.
The male passenger was taken into custody after exiting the moving plane.
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