This video shows the chaotic moments after a man opened a plane's emergency exit, climbed onto the wing and ran across the tarmac.<br /><br />The incident happened on Sunday evening (26/11) at Louisiana's Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport.<br /><br />Footage shows passengers evacuating a flight before cutting to shots of a man being detained on the floor.<br /><br />NBC News said the Southwest Airlines passenger was taken to hospital for evaluation and there are no criminal charges.<br /><br />It is believed he may have been suffering from a "mental health emergency".<br /><br />The airline said that after a brief delay, the flight eventually departed to Atlanta and continued to its final destination of Baltimore.<br /><br />“We commend our flight and ground crews for their swift action and apologize to our customers for their inconvenience,” the airline told NBC.<br /><br />The TikTok creator who shared the video, who goes by @zedweb08, said it was a "very traumatic event".<br /><br />As the passengers filed back off the plane to safety, he could be heard in the footage saying "I never dreamed I would be going through nothing like this."<br /><br />Addressing the camera, he later added: "That scared the s*** out of me."
