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Erratic passenger causes NYC bound flight to divert in JAX

JetBlue flight 784 was diverted to Jacksonville International Airport because of an unruly passenger (Seth Wenig, Copyright 2018 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – An erratic passenger on a JetBlue flight to New York caused the plane to make a brief stop in Jacksonville Thursday afternoon.

According to a JetBlue spokesperson, flight 784 left from Orlando around a little after 12 p.m. when the passenger started acting erratically shortly after take-off.

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The flight was roughly over Brunswick when it turned around. Once the flight landed at the Jacksonville International Airport around 1:21 p.m., law enforcement removed the passenger from the flight.

The flight took off again a little after 3 p.m. and safely landed at its destination just before 5 p.m.

It’s unclear what caused the passenger to become unruly, but no charges were filed against the passenger, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigations.