No passengers were injured, police said.
A Delta flight was diverted to Oklahoma after an unruly passenger allegedly made terrorist threats and assaulted two flight attendants, police said.
The suspect, Stephon Jamar Duncan, reportedly said he was going to bring the plane down on Friday night as it traveled from Los Angeles to Atlanta, Oklahoma City Police spokesman Jermaine Johnson said.
After Duncan allegedly assaulted two flight attendants, a pilot on leave helped subdue him, Johnson said. Delta said the crew and passengers aboard Flight 1730 also helped subdue the suspect.
No one was hurt.
The plane landed in Oklahoma City without incident and the passenger was evacuated by law enforcement, a Delta spokesperson said. The plane was searched and cleared and then cleared to resume its journey to Atlanta, Johnson said.
Duncan was arrested and taken to hospital after reporting chest pain and showing signs of mental health issues, police said.
The incident comes as the TSA screened more than 2 million people at airport security checkpoints on Friday – the first time to exceed 2 million since the start of the pandemic.
ABC News’s Matt Foster and Timmy Truong contributed to this report.