A criminal complaint was filed in Miami, Florida, after an unruly passenger assaulted several flight attendants on an American Airlines flight from Barbados in March.
Robert David Croizat, a British national, was charged with “interference with flight crew members and attendants” and “assault within maritime and territorial jurisdictions” after he boarded a flight from Bridgetown, Barbados, to Miami on March 8 at approximately 3:53 p.m.
The trouble began when Croizat got up from his seat and approached a male flight attendant nearly two hours into the flight and shouted at him about how the attendant “addressed” him while giving him meal options.
“CROZIAT told FA 1 he was a ‘sh-tty’ flight attendant and should have addressed him in a better way when giving him the choices for his meal,” states the complaint.
According to the complaint, after Croizat noticed another flight attendant observing the exchange, he said “What? You want to call the captain?” The complaint states that Croizat began aggressively and loudly began demanding for the staff to “get the captain out here.” A third flight attendant told Croizat to return to his seat and he “touched her” before twice pushing her shoulders.
“During this altercation, CROIZAT touched flight attendant 3 (“FA 3”), according
to information provided by FA 3 to law enforcement,” says the complaint. “When FA 3 told CROIZAT not to touch her, he pushed her twice, according to FA 3. Law enforcement obtained a video of this part of the altercation from a passenger, where CROIZAT can be seen making contact with FA 3 twice on the shoulder.”
The belligerent man continued to demand to see the captain as the third flight attendant called the captain to advise him of the disturbance. The second flight attendant, who was standing in front of the cockpit, again advised Croizat to sit down, as did multiple passengers. Croizat pushed the second flight attendant…
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