Disturbing moment woman threatens to kill everyone on her flight after she was caught smoking on the plane
A woman was caught smoking on a flight from Portland to Sacramento on Saturday, resulting in a mid-air meltdown and threats to “kill everyone on this plane.”
The woman, 24-year-old Valerie Curbello, who lives in Sandy, was restrained by passengers and the flight crew before being escorted off the plane and arrested upon landing.
Southwest Airlines provided a statement on the incident:
A passenger told KOIN 6 News Curbello was removed from the plane’s bathroom when people learned she was smoking. The witness said she removed an oxygen mask as she got “more uncontrollable.”
Curbello told a Sacramento CBS affiliate reporter she was trying to smoke because she was having anxiety.
“It was not me, it was not me,” Curbello told the reporter.
A friend of Curbello’s told KOIN 6 News she took Curbello to a mental health crisis center just days before the incident on the plane. She was worried about Cubello and doesn’t know why she went to Sacramento.
She is being held in a Sacramento jail on $75,000 bail.
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