A passenger with a box cutter prompted a Frontier Airlines flight to make an emergency landing in Atlanta, the airline said.
A Frontier Airlines passenger necessitated an emergency landing and was later taken into custody Friday night after he was found with a box cutter, the airline said.
ABC News spoke to Larry Cumberbatch, who was a passenger onboard Frontier Airlines Flight 1761 and is a Navy veteran. He then walked to the back of the plane, finding the armed passenger taking up the middle and aisle seat and boxing in the man seated in the window. "He basically stood by the bathroom door looking at me, fidgeting with, you know, his clothing. Maybe kind of pacing back a little bit, but not really because of not a confined space. He was trying to size me up to figure out who I was, and I just literally just play nonchalant," Cumberbatch explained. "So, I said, let me just let him know physically I'm there without having to stare at him, because that's going to antagonize, antagonize someone.
Cumberbatch cited his military training, and his experiences growing up and riding the subway in 90s New York, where he saw box cutters as a weapon of choice, as preparation for the situation.
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