Man indicted after allegedly prompting emergency landing at Eastern Iowa Airport

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) – A federal grand jury has indicted a man accused of being an unruly passenger on a flight and prompting an emergency landing in Cedar Rapids last month.

Mario Nikprelaj faces a federal charge of interfering with flight crew members and attendants. He was on a flight from Omaha to Detroit at the time of the incident.

The attendants told the captain Nikprelaj left his seat against orders and flipped them off…

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