Looks like he will have a couple of court dates, one in LAX, another in HNL.
Man disrupts Hawaii flight after being arrested, released in L.A. airport
By Dan Nakaso and Rosemarie Bernardo
May 18, 2017
Updated May 19, 2017 4:07pm
...It was the second time today that the man was arrested [at] an airport.
Los Angeles Airport Police identified the man as 25-year-old Anil Uskanil of Turkey. They said that hours before boarding the flight to Hawaii, Uskanil opened an LAX door that led onto an airfield ramp around 2:45 a.m. He was spotted by a contractor and detained until police officers arrived.
Officers determined Uskanil had been drinking but didn’t meet the criteria to be arrested for being drunk in public, police said. Instead, Uskanil was arrested on suspicion of misdemeanor trespassing, given a date to appear in court, but allowed to board the 8:45 a.m. (Pacific time) flight to Honolulu.
A few hours into that flight, passengers told the Honolulu Star-Advertiser, the man was successfully detained by a flight attendant and passengers as he tried to rush into the first-class section with a blanket over his head.
Uskanil, described as having long, dark, wavy hair and wearing a black leather jacket, was handcuffed and escorted off the plane by FBI agents.
Passengers at baggage claim in Honolulu told the Star-Advertiser that when the man first boarded the flight he sat in the first-class section even though he didn’t have a ticketed seat there. He later was escorted to the back of the plane.
About three hours into the flight, he had a blanket over his shoulders and head when he made his way toward first class from the rear of the plane, they said.
First-class passenger Lee Lorenzen said a flight attendant rushed down the aisle with her beverage cart and blocked the man from entering the first-class area. Lorenzen said the man pushed the cart when the flight attendant calmly asked passengers to assist her.
Lorenzen said some passengers grabbed him and took him to his seat in the back of the plane. “And then I think they took some duct tape and taped him to his chair,” he added.
“He seemed off,” said Lorenzen, who with his wife, Penny, was arriving in Hawaii from Orange County for a nine-day vacation.
Passengers said the incident was over in a couple of minutes.
American Airlines spokeswoman Katie Cody said the Flight 31 crew requested law enforcement meet the plane upon landing because of a “passenger disturbance.”
She referred further questions to FBI, saying “We’re still figuring out all the details.” Calls to the Honolulu FBI field office were not immediately returned.
A passenger aboard the flight posted an Instagram video that shows someone being escorted down the plane’s aisle in handcuffs, being directed by a person wearing an FBI windbreaker, along with other people wearing sidearms.
Instagram user bplus.noisefloor.dnb wrote, “Crazy! Someone tried to break into the cockpit on my flight from LA to Honolulu. We were greeted by the FBI. They are now taking us off the plane a few rows at a time for dog-sniffing and interviews. I’ve never seen anything like this.”
A passenger named Veronica, who declined to give her last name, said she saw the man at the gate at LAX before passengers boarded Flight 31.
“I just thought he was a weird character,” she said noting he was carrying a laptop and pacing while smoking an e-cigarette. She said airport personnel told him to stop smoking.
“He just continued to pace back and forth, play with his hair,” said Veronica, who is from Sacramento.
About three hours into the flight, she and her husband, Damien, were seated in the middle of the plane when they observed the man walk through the aisle “with purpose” toward the first-class section with a blanket over his head.
Damien said he saw a flight attendant wave to some passengers who then stood up and assisted her in detaining the suspect.
After they landed in Honolulu, FBI agents boarded the flight and escorted the man off the plane.
Man disrupts Hawaii flight after being arrested, released in L.A. airport