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"Open the door..." / The moment when the 23-year-old Albanian gets into a fight with the flight attendant, the plane makes an emergency landing
2025-07-18 20:32:01 / AKTUALITET
A plane flying from Omaha to Detroit was forced to make an emergency landing after an Albanian passenger tried to open one of the doors.
Delta Connection Flight 3612, operated by SkyWest Airlines, was forced to divert to Eastern Iowa Airport in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, according to CNN.
Mario Nikprelaj, 23, from Nebraska, as he was identified, allegedly had previously argued with a flight attendant and tried to open an emergency exit door.
“On July 17, 2025, at approximately 6:13 p.m., Cedar Rapids Police were dispatched to the Eastern Iowa Airport following an in-flight disturbance by a passenger on a SkyWest flight from Omaha to Detroit,” the Cedar Rapids Police Department said on Facebook.
Nikprelaj was taken to the Linn County Correctional Center and charged with disorderly conduct, assault, possession of prescription drugs and first-degree harassment, with other charges not excluded.
The plane eventually landed at its destination in Detroit, nearly an hour and a half later than scheduled, according to Flight Aware.
One of the passengers, J. Spencer, wrote on platform X: “We had to divert to Cedar Rapids because this man decided to open the emergency door and then got into a fight with the crew and other passengers.”
According to him, Nikprelaj, a chef by profession, was verbally abusive from the moment passengers boarded the plane. Sitting near the emergency exit, he “ignored the stewardess’ repeated orders and became verbally aggressive.”
“As the plane was entering the runway for takeoff, he stood up and unbuckled his seatbelt. The crew intervened again,” Spencer added. Nikprelaj then began repeatedly pressing the call button and yelling, prompting the captain to declare an emergency and divert the flight to Cedar Rapids.
This isn't Nikprelaj's first run-in with the law. In February 2020, when he was 18, he was charged with assaulting his girlfriend in the Detroit area and then stealing a snowplow that was in use. He was quickly arrested after the vehicle was equipped with a GPS system, Click on Detroit reported.
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