Francisco Severo Torres, 33, was arrested on Sunday when the airplane landed at Boston Logan Worldwide Airport after a flight from Los Angeles, the US Lawyer’s Workplace for Massachusetts mentioned.

Torres, of Leominster, Massachusetts, has been charged with tried interference with flight crew members and attendants utilizing a harmful weapon, it mentioned in a press release.

In response to prosecutors, the flight crew of the airplane observed about 45 minutes earlier than touchdown in Boston that an emergency exit door had been disarmed.

Flight attendants confronted Torres, who had been seen close to the door, and notified the captain that “they believed Torres posed a menace to the plane,” they mentioned.

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Torres allegedly attacked a flight attendant shortly afterwards with a damaged metallic spoon, “hitting the flight attendant on the neck space 3 times,” the US Lawyer’s Workplace mentioned.

“Passengers then tackled Torres and he was restrained with the help of flight crew,” it mentioned.

In a press release, United mentioned “no severe accidents had been reported.”

“We have now zero tolerance for any sort of violence on our flights, and this buyer will likely be banned from flying on United pending an investigation,” the airline mentioned.

If convicted, Torres might face a sentence of as much as life in jail.