Woman caught on video slapping passenger in Delta flight tirade

The woman began swearing mid-flight and allegedly punched, spat and threw hot water on a fellow passenger in an unhinged tirade over masks.

A crazed woman was arrested by the FBI after she went on an expletive-laced tirade and allegedly slapped a fellow passenger aboard a Delta flight from Tampa to Atlanta.

The woman — identified as Patricia Cornwall — was arrested by federal police after the wild incident aboard Flight 2790 on Thursday, Atlanta police said in a statement.

The New York Post reported that police accused her of causing a midair “disturbance” that led to the “injury of fellow passengers and Delta employees”.

The initial incident occurred because a man wasn’t wearing his mask while he was eating and drinking mid-flight. Picture: Twitter.

The man can be heard calling the woman a ‘Karen’ in the video. Picture: Twitter.

A video tweeted by ATL Uncensored shows the woman standing in the aisle cursing at a male passenger as they exchange heated words.

“Put your f — mask on!” she yells, as her own mask sits below her chin.

“Sit down, Karen!” he shoots back at the woman.

“Mask up!” she shouts.

“You mask up, b—!” he yells back.

A flight attendant tried to intervene. Picture: Twitter.

She is then seen slapping the man, who shouts, “You’re going to jail!”

Crew members are seen trying to restrain the woman, who is led down the aisle while yelling, “You f — piece of s—!”

Someone in the clip said the woman “went crazy on the aeroplane, punched this man in the face, spit on him, scratched him (and) poured hot water on my leg.”

According to TMZ, Cornwall went ballistic because the man wouldn’t mask up while eating and drinking.

Another passenger said she tried to punch and spit on the man too. Picture: Twitter.

When the flight landed at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport at 6.10pm, police met with airline employees at Gate A11, where passengers described the incident.

“Based on the statements gathered and visible evidence, officers detained Ms. Cornwall and contacted the on-call FBI agent,” police said in a statement.

“The officers then relocated with Ms. Cornwall to the domestic Atlanta Police precinct where FBI agents responded and took custody of Ms. Cornwall,” it added.

FBI agents detained the woman once the flight landed. Picture: Twitter.

It was not immediately clear what charges she faces.

“Flight 2790 from Tampa to Atlanta was met by law enforcement after an unruly customer disturbance during flight,” a Delta rep told The Post in an email.

“Situations like these are rare for the vast majority of our customers and Delta has zero tolerance for unruly behaviour at our airports and aboard our aircraft,” the statement added.

This article was originally published on the New York Post and has been republished with permission