Delta Connection

Next up, we have passenger attacks flight attendant while attempting to open the emergency exit.

This happened in July 2025 on SkyWest, otherwise known as Delta Connection from Omaha to Detroit.

And here's what happened.

A 23-year-old passenger allegedly attempted to open an emergency exit mid-flight and became physically combative when a flight attendant intervened.

And now, a near miss at LaGuardia Airport, which resulted in a Delta flight and a private aircraft being separated by only 1,000 feet.

On October 7, 2026, Delta Connection Flight 5415, a CRJ900 operated by Endeavor Air, was on final into runway 22, flying at 147 miles per hour.

Meanwhile, Exec Check Flight 398, headed just across the Hudson to Teterboro, was instructed by ATC to line up and hold on runway 13, which intersects with runway 22, where the CRJ was landing.

You have to really hear this interaction to believe it.

I love flying." So I bought the flight school, [chuckles] right? Uh, they were flying one brand-new airplane and a whole bunch of old airplanes, and I thought, "This is not how this is supposed to work.

Nobody wants to fly an airplane with shag carpet in it." I mean, they just don't, right? So we replaced all the airplanes, bought all brand-new airplanes, grew it to three locations, became a certified Part 141 pilot school, which is how we got to be part of the Delta connection.

You could, through our system, through, through our Cessna Pilot Center system, train somebody from the very first flight all the way up to the Delta connection system.

So that's kinda how it worked.

So I did that while I was at-- Well, I left...