Alaska Airlines flight attendant restrains screaming passenger who latched onto woman’s hair

A viral video caught the moment a flight attendant had to restrain a screaming passenger who was having a “violent medical episode” while latching onto a woman’s hair. The incident occurred on a domestic US flight from Oakland, California, to Portland on 1 February. The plane never actually made it into the air as the incident occurred just before take off, and the flight was then cancelled. The alarming video shows a male flight attendant onboard the Embraer 175 appearing to pummel a man repeatedly who had the hair of another passenger in his grasp. “Let go of her hair,” someone shouts out to the passenger as the flight attendant appears to pound the man with his fist, trying to make him release his grasp from the hair, while another person behind him attempts to pry his fingers away from the hair strands. The flight attendant simultaneously pushes the man's head back into the plane seat, seemingly trying to keep him in place. Once the woman’s hair is released, she turns around towards the man with a frightened look on her face, and gets up from her seat immediately. The flight attendant keeps a hand on the man’s shoulders, who starts to hyperventilate and then lets out a scream. As the man continues to scream, the flight attendant looks around and asks for another “capable male” to come help him.<br/>