VIDEO: Flight attendant punched by passenger; California woman arrested in San Diego
05/27/2021 2:34 pm PDT
SAN DIEGO (TCD) --
A California woman was arrested this week after allegedly punching a flight attendant on a flight from Sacramento to San Diego.
The incident was not mask-related, according to a flight attendants union representative, the Sacramento Bee reports.
Vyvianna Quinonez, 28, was arrested by San Diego Harbor Police when the flight from Sacramento landed in San Diego on Sunday, May 23.
The attack was recorded on another passenger’s phone on Southwest Flight 700 from Sacramento International Airport.
The flight attendant lost two teeth, according to the flight attendant’s union, the Sacramento Bee confirmed this week. She was treated at Scripps Memorial Hospital in San Diego. The flight attendant’s eye was also reportedly injured.
The incident happened as the flight was preparing to land at San Diego International Airport, at about 8:55 a.m., KSWB-TV reports. The Bee reports the passenger was seated in the back row of the plane.
Quinonez was booked into the Las Colinas Detention Facility on a charge of felony battery causing serious bodily injury. She was released the same day on $35,000 bond, the Bee reports.
The woman who recorded the attack told KTXL-TV that it was the flight attendant who provoked the incident.
“Vyvianna had said to her three times, that we could hear, ‘Get off of me. Quit touching me. Get your hands off of me,’” Michelle Manner said.
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- Video shows woman punch attendant on California flight. ‘It was all bad,’ witness says - Sacramento Bee
- Flight attendant loses teeth after assault. Sacramento passenger accused of attack - Sacramento Bee
- Video shows passenger punch flight attendant in San Diego; suspect arrested - KSWB
- Woman arrested, accused of battery on flight attendant on plane bound for San Diego - San Diego Union-Tribune
- Witness says Southwest Airlines flight attendant provoked violent incident - KTXL
