A fight over an unpaid carry-on ended with three women being carted off a plane in handcuffs.
Nafisa Dockery, 30, Davana Cochran, 26, and Dionjana Cochran, 21, were arrested Sunday night at Miami International Airport after deputies said they refused to pay for an extra bag on Frontier flight F9-1204 to Philadelphia.
Gate staff spotted two carry-ons even though only one had been paid for, according to arrest reports cited by NBC Miami.
After an argument at the gate, Dockery allegedly told the other two women to ignore the employee and head onto the plane. “We don’t have to listen, let’s just go,” she said, according to an arrest report obtained by People.
The three then went through a “clearly marked” restricted door and boarded the plane anyway, deputies said.
According to the report, Frontier told deputies the women could not fly because their boarding passes were no longer valid, and asked officers to remove them from the aircraft.
The women then refused repeated orders to leave, forcing deputies to clear the plane before a brief struggle outside.
The arrest report described that as the trio was taken into custody, they “tensed their bodies and pulled their arms away,” to keep from being put in handcuffs.
A video shared by the Instagram account, Only in Dade, shows multiple onlookers’ perspectives as the women were escorted off the flight by deputies.
At one point in the video, Davana can be heard yelling, “I will beat you the f--- up,” at a bystander, who replies, “Enjoy prison, baby.”
Dockery was alleged to have spat on a person as they were leaving the plane.
The trio ended up in the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center. Each was charged with resisting an officer without violence to his person and trespassing on property/after warning, and Dockery was additionally charged with battery.
Deputies said the disruption held up the flight for about an hour.
The incident happened the same day that a bomb threat affected another Frontier flight after it landed at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. However, after authorities arrived on the scene, police determined that the threat was not credible.
