Wild footage captured the second an American Airways passenger who allegedly believed evil spirits have been following him started throwing punches at flight attendants in a weird outburst one passenger described as “the most disturbing thing I’ve ever seen.”
Delange Augustin will be seen yelling and wildly swinging his arms and kicking his legs on the entrance of the aircraft as different passengers aboard leap in to restrain him, video obtained by CBS Miami reveals.
After the passengers restrained him to the ground, Augustin swallowed a rosary as his sister, who was additionally on board, sang or chanted some sort of eerie hymns, in keeping with passenger Rob Rosenberg.
“They were possessed,” Rosenberg advised the outlet.
“That was a very, very, very disturbing scene. I’ve seen a lot of stuff in my life, but that was probably the most disturbing thing I’ve ever seen.”
The ordeal, which ended with the 31-year-old in handcuffs, started moments after the wheels left the bottom in Savannah, Ga. Monday evening when Augustin started wildly shaking and yelling when the aircraft hit some turbulence, main some onboard to imagine he was having a seizure, studies mentioned.
Fellow passenger Rosenberg mentioned he turned involved when Augustin started yelling about demons.
“He started stomping his feet violently, like heavily and screaming — it was kind of a chant,” he advised CBS Miami. “He was talking about devils and possession. You have to kind of see it to believe it sort of thing.”
He kicked a flight attendant who went to test on him so exhausting within the chest they flew throughout the aisle of the aircraft and crashed right into a window, in keeping with an affidavit. After the kick, the pilot determined it was most secure to take a Miami-bound aircraft again round to Savannah.
“He was being so violent, you were like, this is not normal, he doesn’t care anymore,” mentioned Rosenberg.
Augustin additionally “destroyed” the seat in entrance of him punching and kicking it as they flew again, Rosenberg mentioned.
As soon as they touched down in Savannah, Augustin instantly charged the aircraft’s entrance doorways and simply began swinging, as proven within the video. He was adopted by his sister, who was additionally onboard.
Rosenberg and his buddy jumped in and helped take Augustin to the bottom. As soon as there, he grabbed onto his sister’s hair bun and pants and refused to let go as authorities arrived.
“They tazed him, once, twice, three times. He still didn’t let go. At that point, they had to cut the woman’s hair to make him let go,” he mentioned.
He additionally swallowed the rosary — which his sister later advised police was as a result of the beads are “a weapon of strength in spiritual warfare.”
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 keeping with 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 mentioned.
Solely about eight passengers have been aboard the aircraft on the time of the outburst, and nobody was critically injured, in keeping with police.
Augustin, who was hospitalized after swallowing the rosary beads, was later booked in jail on a number of prices, together with misdemeanor battery and felony property injury.
