{"id":73269,"date":"2021-01-06T17:46:30","date_gmt":"2021-01-06T17:46:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mytravelleader.com\/?p=73269"},"modified":"2021-01-06T17:46:30","modified_gmt":"2021-01-06T17:46:30","slug":"passenger-punches-woman-in-face-after-children-allegedly-kick-her-seat-throughout-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mytravelleader.com\/travel\/passenger-punches-woman-in-face-after-children-allegedly-kick-her-seat-throughout-flight\/","title":{"rendered":"Passenger punches woman in face after children allegedly kick her seat throughout flight"},"content":{"rendered":"
A woman has been charged after punching a fellow airline passenger several times while still on the aircraft.<\/p>\n
Daydrena Jaslin Walker-Williams, 29, admitted to assaulting Nataly Hernandez after their Spirit Airlines flight landed in Portland, Oregon, but alleged she only did so because the latter\u2019s children repeatedly kicked the back of her seat during the service.\n<\/p>\n
Walker-Williams said Hernandez ignored requests to intervene and put a stop to her children\u2019s behaviour.\n<\/p>\n
She also accused Hernandez of hitting her \u201con the shoulder\u201d after she made one such request.\n<\/p>\n
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The incident occurred on 3 January and, while witnesses said they\u2019d seen Walker-Williams hitting Hernandez, none could attest to the alleged provocation.\n<\/p>\n
In an affidavit of probable cause seen by local paper The Oregonian<\/i>, Walker-Williams admitted to hitting Hernandez \u201ctwo to three times with her fist\u201d.<\/p>\n
She said \u201cshe was upset Ms. Hernandez\u2019s children kicked the back of her seat, and stated she told Ms. Hernandez \u2018to tell her kids to stop it.\u2019\u201d <\/p>\n
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Walker-Williams claimed that she didn\u2019t tell a flight attendant about Hernandez allegedly hitting her on the shoulder as her \u201cfirst reaction was to fight.\u201d<\/p>\n
She reportedly told police \u201cYou do what you got to do,\u201d following the incident, and now faces charges of felony assault in the fourth degree and harassment.\n<\/p>\n
It\u2019s far from the first time tempers have run high on a flight in recent months.\n<\/p>\n
A fight broke out on a Ryanair flight from Malaga, Spain, to Manchester in October 2020.<\/p>\n
Video taken onboard the service shows a woman being escorted down the plane aisle by a flight attendant, saying, \u201cI\u2019ll smash him up\u201d, after appearing to hit an unseen passenger.\n<\/p>\n
The footage cuts to a fight at the front of the aircraft, and two men can be seen running towards the fracas, while the original woman also gets involved and again looks like she is hitting another traveller.\n<\/p>\n
\u201cJack, stop it \u2013 just come down here,\u201d another woman can be heard shouting at one of the men.\n<\/p>\n
The fight is broken up and the passengers return to their seats.\n<\/p>\n
It was followed by a video clip showing police escorting a man at the front of the plane off the aircraft.\n<\/p>\n
It was unclear what had prompted the altercation, which started just as the flight was preparing for landing back in the UK.\n<\/p>\n