The Brief
- Deputies responded to a United Airlines flight at Milwaukee Mitchell International Airport after a 44-year-old passenger threatened to exit the parked aircraft.
- Deputies boarded the plane at the gate, identified the woman, and escorted her off.
- The woman was cited for disorderly conduct and released to her family.
MILWAUKEE – A disruptive passenger was escorted off a plane at Milwaukee Mitchell International Airport on Sunday night.
Incident details
What we know:
According to the Milwaukee County Sheriff’s Office, at 11:40 p.m. United Airlines requested that sheriff’s office deputies respond to the west ramp at the airport for a disruptive passenger who was threatening to exit the parked plane.
The aircraft was among several flights that had been diverted from O’Hare due to bad weather.…