Nude passenger disrupts flight
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - A passenger stripped naked during a US Airways flight and resisted a flight attendant's efforts to cover him with a blanket before two off-duty cops on board subdued and handcuffed him, authorities said yesterday.
Keith Wright, 50, of the Bronx, in New York, was taken into custody after he disrobed while sitting in the back of Flight 705 on Tuesday evening, authorities said. The plane was carrying about 148 passengers from Charlotte to Los Angeles.
Dan Jiron, an airport spokesman, said that Wright ignored a flight attendant's pleas that he put his clothes back on. "She covered him with a blanket and he took that off," Jiron said.
Wright, said to have told the FBI he was bipolar, then punched and kicked the flight attendant, who asked two off-duty law officers for help, according to a criminal complaint. *
