'Owww, Call My Mom': Woman Arrested on Chicago-Bound Flight

A Chicago-bound American Airlines flight from Miami was forced to land in Indianapolis Monday evening after the pilot ordered a “cabin lockdown” for a disruptive, profane, intoxicated passenger.

Police in Indianapolis then boarded the plane and took Daniela Velez-Reyes of Chicago into custody. As she was placed into a squad car on the tarmac and shuttled to the police department, a fellow passenger turned her into a bit of an Internet sensation with his Twitter video of her whiny arrest.

She is charged with battery with injury, battery without injury, battery on a public safety officer, criminal recklessness, and two felony counts of disorderly conduct and disruption of operation of an aircraft.

A flight attendant tried to subdue her and the woman lashed out, according to witnesses, prompting the diversion.

“It was just a lot of screaming, yelling,” passenger Brian Wood told NBC Chicago. “I thought it was a kid crying in the back... but it ended up being (her). She was kind of being belligerent, drunk on the plane.”

Flight 1284 left Miami at 2:41 p.m. Central time and diverted into Indianapolis at 5 p.m. The jet remained on the ground in Indianapolis for about an hour as the her bags were removed from the plane.

The woman also struck airport authorities on her way off the plane, reports Fox 59 in Indianapolis, kicking an officer.

“Definitely the most scared I’ve ever been in my life,” tweeted one passenger, @djsavi, who says the pilot requested passenger assistance to restrain the woman as the flight descended. “Could only hear someone screaming and see several people in the back of the plane.”

The flight landed at O’Hare International Airport shortly before 7 p.m. Central time.