‘They don’t belong here’: First class passenger arrested after anti-Asian racist rant on Salt Lake City flight “We were lucky to have such a well trained crew who kept their cool throughout the flight!”

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"We were lucky to have such a well trained crew who kept their cool throughout the flight!" A first class passenger has been arrested after going on a racist rant on a Salt Lake City flight. The incident occurred during American Airlines flight 1802 from LA to Salt Lake City on Monday. Just before the flight reached its destination, Timothy Armstrong began yelling at a woman of Asian ethnicity. According to witness Dennis Busch, the 61-year-old Las Vegas man told flight attendants that the woman and her fellow passenger “didn’t belong here.” “After asking him to calm down the man...