Airplane Passenger’s Suicide Note Stops Flight: ‘He Started Writing Extremely Fast’

A female passenger on a Virgin Airlines plane noticed the man next to her started to write furiously.

“He started writing extremely fast — with anger,” Vicki Riffe told the New York Daily News of the incident on Thursday.

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She took a look at what he was writing and she was shocked: It was a suicide note. And even worse, the man wrote he wanted to kill other people.

“When I saw that, I got scared,” she added. “I started thinking about my kids.”

After that, she told a passenger next to her and then called the flight attendant. The flight crew was alerted and the pilot announced the airplane would be turned back to address mechanical issues.

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During the whole thing, Riffe said she was quite worried. “I was scared to death,” she added, per AP. “It’s like, ‘I’ve got to tell somebody…Is this really happening?’ My whole body just started shaking.”

As the plane landed in San Francisco, several police officers searched the plane and took the man into custody.

“The woman who called the man out was amazing,” passenger Eric Berg was quoted by the Daily News as saying. “And the captain of the plane, someone needs to give that guy some props. He handled it amazingly well.”