Passenger on American Airlines from Seattle to Dallas tries to open door mid-air after eating 10 weed edibles

A high-flying New Jersey man was arrested for trying to unfastened a level doorway and propositioning a formation attendant for activity aft eating 10 marijuana edibles.

Eric Nicholas Gapco, 26, is facing national charges for his disruptive behavior, which included shouting, singing astatine nan apical of his lungs, vaping, harassing passengers and assaulting a formation attendant.

At 1 point, a video of nan incident shows nan New Jersey autochthonal having to beryllium dragged retired of nan bath aft locking himself successful it. 

Mr Gapco's behaviour was a consequence of an utmost precocious he was experiencing aft consuming excessively overmuch marijuana. 

The ordeal forced nan pilots of nan American Airlines formation from Seattle to Dallas to emergency onshore successful Utah. Mr Gapco was past arrested at Salt Lake City International Airport wherever he collapsed a solid door.

American Airlines formation 2101 took disconnected from Seattle connected nan evening of July 18, but it wasn’t successful nan aerial for very agelong earlier Mr Gapco of Delanco, New Jersey, caused a stir. 

While he had taken nan narcotics earlier nan flight, he said he did not cognize really overmuch THC – nan psychoactive chemic successful weed – was successful each edible. 

Once connected board, he allegedly refused to enactment seated, propositioned a formation attendant for sex, vaped, and took his apparel off.

News reports besides opportunity he offered a chap rider a container of unidentified pills and yelled 'I'm sane!' arsenic he was escorted disconnected nan plane. 

Footage of nan arena showed passengers taking it upon themselves to restrain Mr Gapco and thief formation attendants escort him disconnected nan plane.

As he walked slow down nan plane’s aisle, he sang, ‘You opportunity “po-tay-to”, I opportunity “po-tah-to”.’

While it is not clear really galore milligrams of THC Mr Gapco consumed, immoderate types of edibles incorporate up to 100 milligrams of nan compound. 

Eating 10 of those would put his THC depletion astatine 1000 mg. Even for a predominant cannabis user, this is simply a very precocious dose. 

It is imaginable to overdose connected THC, though it apt won't termination you. Signs of an overdose see panic attacks, accelerated bosom beat, nausea and vomiting, delusions and hallucinations, and seizures.  

At first, he denied taking immoderate forbidden drugs. But he later admitted to consuming a hefty magnitude to nan arresting officers.

Recreational cannabis usage is ineligible successful New Jersey and Washington, though not Texas. Even though cannabis is ineligible successful astir 2 twelve states, it remains federally illegal. Taking it crossed authorities lines is prohibited by national law. 

Moreover, marijuana is still marked arsenic a schedule 1 constituent alongside cocaine and heroin. This intends trying to sneak it by TSA could consequence successful criminal charges.  

He was charged pinch interference pinch a formation unit and attempted harm to an craft successful nan United States' typical craft jurisdiction.

American Airlines told McClatchy News: ‘The information and information of our customers and squad members is our apical priority.

‘We convey our squad members for their professionalism and our customers for their understanding.’

Prosecutors said he continued to beryllium disruptive erstwhile he disembarked from nan plane, penning successful nan mobility for his detention that he was ‘combative pinch aesculapian unit and nan police,’ prosecutors wrote successful nan mobility for his detention. ‘At 1 point, he spat connected an officer.’