Ukrainian man indicted in flight disruption

Published November 1, 2012 1:37am ET



SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Ukrainian man who authorities say had been drinking heavily before he ran to the back of a Salt Lake City-bound Delta Air Lines plane and tried to open an emergency exit was indicted by a federal grand jury Wednesday for disrupting the flight and attempting to bribe the FBI agents who arrested him.

Federal authorities say Anatoliy N. Baranovich woke up during the plane’s descent from Boston, started yelling in Russian and tried to open the rear door, damaging the plane’s fuselage, before other passengers restrained him.

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