An American Airways flight to Miami was compelled to show round when a manic passenger — who was satisfied that demonic spirits adopted him onto the aircraft — swallowed rosary beads and violently kicked a flight attendant throughout the airplane aisle.
Simply moments after the flight left Savannah, Ga. Monday night time, Delange Augustin, 31, started “yelling and shaking” in what the crew initially assumed was a seizure.
The incident then took a weird flip when Augustin started gulping down rosary beads to attempt to keep off what he claimed have been “Satan’s disciple(s)” that adopted him onto the flight, in response to an arrest affidavit obtained by The New York Occasions.
When flight attendants approached the crazed passenger, he kicked one within the chest so exhausting they flew throughout the aisle of the aircraft and crashed right into a window, the affidavit stated.
Augustin’s conduct “appeared purposeful, though difficult to describe,” Savannah Solomon, a particular agent with the FBI, wrote within the affidavit.
After studying of the disturbance, the pilots turned the aircraft round and landed safely in Savannah, however Augustin continued to trigger a commotion because the crew tried to deboard different passengers.
He stormed to the entrance of the plane and threw a number of wild punches at a flight attendant earlier than passengers needed to wrangle him and his sister, whom he was touring with, to the bottom.
After the duo was detained, Augustin’s sister advised authorities they have been touring to Haiti to “flee religious attacks of a spiritual nature,” in response to the affidavit.
Whereas on the flight, Augustin advised his sister “to close her eyes and pray because Satan’s disciple(s) had followed them onto the plane and the legion did not want the Augustins to make it to Haiti,” the affidavit stated.
His sister advised authorities he swallowed the rosary beads “because they are a weapon of strength in the spiritual warfare.”
Solely about eight passengers have been aboard the aircraft on the time of the outburst, and nobody was critically injured, in response to the affidavit.
“We appreciate the professionalism of the entire crew and thank our passengers for their understanding,” American Airways stated in a press release.
Augustin, who was hospitalized after swallowing the rosary beads, was later booked in jail on a number of expenses, together with misdemeanor battery and felony property injury.
