Overview
- A passenger recorded part of an onboard dispute in which he says a flight attendant dropped food, tried to serve it, spat on him and threw a glove at him, though the clip begins after the confrontation started.
- The available video does not show the initial events and therefore does not independently verify whether the attendant first served food from the floor or how the glove came into play.
- Crew members issued a Delta 'Notice of Violation' to the passenger during the flight and local police met the aircraft after it landed.
- The notice is an airline-issued warning used to document disruptive conduct and is not a Department of Transportation citation; the FAA can open a separate investigation and pursue civil penalties if it deems that necessary.
- Reporting is developing and Delta had not provided a public response in the cited coverage, leaving questions about what prompted the crew's formal warning and what regulatory or legal steps might follow.