Watch: Irate passenger hurls computer at Frontier staff after missing flight
CHICAGO - An irate woman who reportedly missed her flight was caught on video jumping behind the Frontier Airlines check-in counter and hurling computers at staff.
The shocking video was filmed by another traveler at O’Hare International Airport in Chicago July 30. The traveler who took the video told Storyful the woman missed her flight and "lost it" after staff wouldn’t let her board.
The woman can be seen jumping over the baggage conveyor belt and charging toward a Frontier Airlines employee while yelling at her. When another airline worker intervened and pushed the woman back, she grabbed a computer monitor from the Frontier check-in desk and threw it toward the staff, hitting one of them.
After that, she threw a second Frontier monitor onto the floor before climbing back over the counter and shouting "Stupid!" at workers. The woman then fled the scene.
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Frontier Airlines deferred to Chicago PD for comment. Police said officers are investigating and identified her as a 31-year-old woman, but no arrests have been made.
In 2022, a mother was arrested in a similar incident at Miami International Airport.
The Miami-Dade Police Department said Camilia McMillie, of Birmingham, was traveling to New York City and checked into her flight after being rebooked for missing her previous flight.
"While the subject was with the gate agent, her two minor children walked away without notice to use nearby restrooms," police said in a statement. "Once the subject noticed the children were not with her, she became irate and began to scream, demanding the gate agent to find her children."
Investigators said McMillie then "pulled the boarding pass reader off the wooden counter, damaging the equipment and countertop area" and "as she continued to scream, she then grabbed the computer monitor and threw it at the gate agent, striking her in the shoulder."
A video captured by a witness shows the gate attendant – who is wearing festive reindeer antlers – bracing for cover as the monitor is hurled in her direction. Other footage reportedly shows McMillie knocking electronics to the ground.