A hero passenger who fought off a bloke trying to stab a flight attendant with a snapped spoon, says he was thinking of his family when he intervened.
Francisco Severo Torres, 33, of Leominster, Massachusetts, was flying with United Airlines from LA to Boston in the USA on March 5, 2022.
Flight attendants are understood to have become aware of an alarm going off 45 minutes before they were due to land after Torres allegedly moved the door’s locking handle out of the locked position.
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Torres, who has mental health problems, made a series of bizarre claims including saying that he is the son of Dracula and wanted to be shot dead and come back to life to "kill every man on this plane".
“I don’t know what else you need to hear at that point," said Jeff Neil, the man who led the charge to subdue Torres.
The New Hampshire man said he did it for his family first and foremost. He said he hopes Torrres “gets the help that he needs”.
“Clearly, he’s dealing with some things there,” Neil remarked.
“You could just tell it wasn’t heading in a good direction,” said Neil, who was travelling next to his wife, after Torres claimed he was "taking over" the plane.
He then chased a cabin crew member and tried to stab them in the neck with the broken spoon that he had fashioned into a knife.
Neil and others rushed Torres and floored him before he tried to bite the Good Samaritan.
Neil was reluctant to call himself a hero, telling WCVB: “I just think it was [that] I was in the right place at the wrong time,” he said.
“I guess at the end of the day, I think anyone would have stepped up. I just happened to be there.”
Torres appeared in federal court in Boston on Thursday (march 9) on a felony charge of using a dangerous weapon to interfere with flight crew members. He faces life in prison if convicted as charged.
A judge has reportedly ordered a psychiatric evaluation of the accused.
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