In an emailed statement to Snopes, a spokesperson for Frontier said the airline “maintains the utmost value, respect, concern and support for all of our flight attendants, including those who were assaulted on this flight,” and added that placing the crew on paid leave “is in line with an event of this nature pending an investigation.”

Then, as other passengers laughed, the flight crew restrained Berry with duct tape.īerry was also accused of groping two female flight attendants and was arrested when the plane landed in Miami.įrontier stated that it had placed the crew involved in the incident on paid leave amid an internal investigation into the way in which Berry was restrained. He later started throwing punches at a flight attendant who restrained him while calling out for help. My parents are worth more than $2 million-goddamn-dollars,” as the other passengers laugh. In the video, the passenger, later identified as Max Berry, can be heard saying, “You guys fucking suck. Frontier suspended the crew for duct taping the passenger to his seat as they landed in Miami. The crew resorted to restraining him with duct tape.ĪBC News transportation reporter Sam Sweeney posted video of the incident to Twitter, where it has been viewed millions of times:įrontier passenger allegedly touched 2 flight attendants breasts, then screamed his parents are worth $2 million, before punching a flight attendant. A video went viral showing a passenger on board a Frontier Airlines flight from Philadelphia to Miami getting physical with the flight crew and boasting about the wealth of his family.

Passenger duct taped to seat