A United Airlines flight from Chicago to Minneapolis diverted to Wisconsin Friday night after a 75-year-old man experiencing a “mental health crisis” allegedly made repeated attempts to breach the cockpit, according to airline and law enforcement officials.
Flight UA2005 departed Chicago O’Hare International Airport around 8 p.m. and was diverted about 90 minutes later to Dane County Regional Airport in Madison, flight records show. The man, described by the airline in a statement to multiple outlets as an “unruly passenger,” was restrained during the flight and kept under control until landing, where federal and local authorities met the plane on the ground and detained him, an FBI spokesperson told The Independent.
