Oct. 31 (UPI) — A man on a United Airlines flight from San Francisco to Washington Dulles International Airport is facing an assault charge after an unprovoked attack on a sleeping passenger.
The FBI and Federal Aviation Administration are both investigating after the minute-long attack earlier in the week left a non-verbal male passenger bloodied and with black eyes.
Witnesses on the flight say Everett Chad Nelson initially got up to use the lavatory onboard United Airlines flight 2247 Monday and then “without notice, began physically attacking a sleeping male passenger by punching him repeatedly in the face and head until blood was drawn,” according to court documents .
Nelson reportedly hit the man repeatedly for a full minute before another passenger intervened and restrained the 44-year-old.
“The next thing I know, I just hear the these blood-curdling screams,” passenger Sandhya Gupta told KABC TV .
