Incident in the Air: Flight Attendants Quarreled on a Flight and the Captain Was Forced to Call for Help
A captain on a Delta Air Lines flight was forced to call managers to await the plane upon landing after a brawl broke out between two flight attendants. The captain feared escalation and requested to separate them. The incident occurred on Delta Connection Flight 5090 en route from Greenville-Spartanburg to Detroit.
A captain on Delta Connection Flight 5090, operated by subsidiary Endeavor Air, was forced to call managers to await the plane upon landing in Detroit after a brawl broke out between two flight attendants. The captain reported a conflict among the crew over the radio and requested to separate them to prevent escalation. The incident occurred on a regional CRJ-900 aircraft, which has a cabin crew of only two. The company has a history of similar incidents, including an emergency landing in January 2016 after a physical altercation between flight attendants, and the cancellation of another flight after police were called to the aircraft.