"Unruly" Passenger Forces Southwest Flight To Make Emergency Landing In Arkansas

CBS Dallas/Fort Worth

November 27, 2022

A Southwest Airlines flight bound from Houston, Texas, to Columbus, Ohio, was forced to make an emergency landing in Little Rock, Arkansas, Saturday afternoon due to a passenger disturbance.

Southwest Flight 192 landed at Bill and Hillary Clinton National Airport at about 3:30 p.m. local time, the Federal Aviation Administration confirmed to CBS News in a statement, after "the crew declared an emergency due to a passenger disturbance."

An airline spokesperson described the incident to CBS News in an email as "unruly behavior from a passenger."

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