Woman bashes flight attendant with intercom phone at Colorado airport, airline says

A “belligerent” woman who was asked to leave a Frontier Airlines flight at Denver International Airport bashed a flight attendant with an intercom phone, airline officials said.

The Tampa-bound flight was awaiting departure from the gate early Sunday, May 21, when the woman was asked to deplane, Frontier Airlines said in a statement to McClatchy News.

As she was escorted off, “she picked up an intercom phone and struck a flight attendant with it,” the airline said.

Airport police cited the woman, who faces an assault charge, at 3:55 a.m., Denver police said in a statement to McClatchy News. She was later booked onto another flight.

Flight 708 departed for Tampa International Airport after the delay at 5:30 a.m., Frontier Airlines said.

“Violence has no place anywhere and certainly not in a mode of transportation that requires strict procedures to keep everyone safe,” the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA said in a statement to KDVR.

Federal Aviation Authority statistics show there have been 670 reports of unruly passengers in so far 2023 as of May 14. There were 2,455 reports of unruly passengers in 2022.

This story was originally published May 22, 2023 at 9:43 AM with the headline "Woman bashes flight attendant with intercom phone at Colorado airport, airline says."