JEANNE MESERVE, CNN ANCHOR: A 40-year-old Missouri man is in police custody after allegedly staging a bizarre attack on the pilot of an Air Alaska flight last night. We get the story from Austin Jenkins or Portland, Oregon affiliate KGW.</s>AUSTIN JENKINS, KGW REPORTER (voice-over): Flight 259 arrived in Portland after midnight last night. Passengers on board describe a terrifying series of events, a despondent passenger roaming the aisles without his shirt, shoving a flight attendant, trying to break out an exit door, and then...</s>BOB BENJAMIN, PASSENGER: All of a sudden, he said: I'm going to kill everybody and he ripped the door off the cabin and went in and fought the co-pilot.</s>JENKINS: Police say the man attacked the co-pilot and lunged for the controls. That is when several passengers, including two men from Oregon, saved the flight.</s>CHRIS HONOCHICK, PASSENGER: And then when he opened up the cockpit and attacked the pilot, that's when I ran up and basically grabbed a hold of him, and yanked him down. We held him down, and tied him up with tie-downs.</s>UNIDENTIFIED PASSENGER: And me and four or five other guys flew straight forward and grabbed him and subdued him. And one guy cuffed his legs and I grabbed his hands and cuffed his hands, and jerked him back out of the cabin.</s>JENKINS: The suspect and co-pilot were taken to this Bay area hospital for treatment of minor injuries. After the ordeal, extra long hugs for passengers arriving in Portland last night, people glad to be home safe.
40-Year-Old Man in Custody After Allegedly Staging Attack on Pilot of Air Alaska Flight