The American Airlines flight attendant who was removed from a flight Friday after giving a rambling speech on the plane's public-address system was combative and acting irrationally, according to a police report on the incident.
The 43-year-old flight attendant from North Richland Hills, Texas, began talking while Flight 2332 was taxiing to the runway at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, passengers said. Travelers on the plane said passengers began panicking during the speech.
The attendant had begun babbling about technical problems with the plane, saying "Captain, I can't be responsible for crashing this plane," Reuters reported.
Officers were told the woman is bipolar and was not taking her medication, according to the police report.
An off-duty pilot flying in first class and the other flight attendants tried to restrain the woman. Passengers eventually assisted the flight attendants in restraining her as the pilot returned the plane to the gate, NBC 5 reported.
According to the police report, she kicked one of the flight attendants in the abdomen. That flight attendant was taken for treatment at a Grapevine hospital.
The responding DFW Airport police officer said in the report that several passengers were restraining the flight attendant in the first row. Officers handcuffed her, but she continued to resist attempts to take her off the aircraft.
Once she was off the plane, she continued to resist and said a co-worker was killed in the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks in New York.
She tried to spit on a responding paramedic, but officers turned her away, the police report stated. Officers also put her in leg restraints because she tried to kick the officers.
Police said she was taken to a Dallas hospital for evaluation.
FBI agents told airport police they would not pursue charges against the flight attendant because the incident was "obviously caused by her mental episode," the police report said.
American Airlines would only say that the woman is not flying at this time.
This story was originally reported by NBCDFW.com
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