A Marine 'Slammed' and Zip-tied a Passenger to His Seat After He Claims Man Attempted to Open Plane Door Mid-Flight

A U.S. Marine acted quickly aft noticing a man drawback nan emergency exit door.

Sergeant Major Jody Armentrout, who has served successful nan Marines for 20 years, was connected a formation from Tokyo to Houston connected May 24, erstwhile he noticed a man acting suspicious. The chap rider took his backpack into 1 of nan lavatories earlier he walked out, went into a 2nd lavatory, and past a third.

"He came retired of that 1 and began pacing up and down nan aisle, truthful that conscionable threw my radar on," Armentrout, who is stationed successful Japan, told NBC News successful a telephone question and reply astir his All Nippon Airways formation from Tokyo to Houston.

Keeping a dependable oculus connected nan suspicious passenger, Armentrout, 50, said he saw nan man eyeing nan emergency exit doorway adjacent to him. That’s erstwhile nan Marine intervened by opinionated up and blocking nan man’s measurement to nan door.

Armentrout said he saw nan rider move astir and tally consecutive done nan galley to different emergency exit door. That’s erstwhile Armentrout's instincts and training kicked in.

"He grabbed a strap astir nan door, pulled it off, and astir that clip is erstwhile I took him and slammed him, put him connected nan ground," Armentrout told NBC News. "And past location was an older man sitting connected that broadside that woke up, and he sewage up and benignant of helped me."

Flight attendants handed Armentrout zip ties to support nan man secured to nan spot while nan level took a detour to Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. In nan meantime, Armentrout sat adjacent to nan man for nan long of nan flight.

"His eyes — you could decidedly show location was thing going on," Armentrout said of nan rider acting suspiciously.

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All Nippon Airways released a connection regarding Flight 114, saying a rider became “unruly” during nan formation pinch work from Haneda Airport to Houston's George Bush Intercontinental Airport. 

The man was escorted disconnected nan plane, wherever he was brought successful for questioning and later identified, according to a Port of Seattle Police study obtained by PEOPLE.

The FBI informed nan serviceman connected telephone that they were not going to spot nan man into custody. Instead, he was transported to a section infirmary wherever he received "further aesculapian evaluation," nan study states.

"Prosecutors are reviewing reports and witnesser statements to find whether nan lawsuit is due for national prosecution," a spokesperson for nan FBI Seattle section agency told PEOPLE.

That was not nan only hiccup for nan All Nippon Airways Flight 114 that departed Saturday morning. As nan formation sat connected nan tarmac successful Seattle, different rider who "was disappointment astatine nan formation diversion" punched a lavatory door, nan FBI's Seattle section agency reported.

The formation rider was removed from nan formation and has not been identified. The FBI reported that neither formation rider received charges arsenic of Tuesday.

Flight 114 yet made it to Houston connected Saturday astatine 12:42 p.m. CDT, according to FlightAware.com. Armentrout admitted, "It was a weird flight."

On Friday, May 30, Armentrout will make nan travel backmost to his guidelines successful Japan, which he told nan news position has him emotion a small anxious aft nan past flight.

With that, he issued a beardown advisory to travelers. "I want to make judge everybody understands what clip we are successful in this world nowadays and that they request to beryllium alert of their surroundings each nan time," he said.