Flight diverted to Atlanta after passenger made threats with box cutter

A flight was diverted to Atlanta after it was reported that a passenger was making threats to stab other passengers and was carrying a box cutter.

Lillian Hoffman, who was aboard the flight, said the suspect had threatened to use the box cutters to harm passengers.

"When he went to go to the bathroom, the passenger in the window seat looked at me and said, ‘Hey he has a knife and he told me he was threatening to stab people, we need to say something to somebody,’" Hoffman told WLWT-News. "So I went up and talked to the flight attendants in the front of the airplane and let them know like this guy has a box knife and he’s been telling us he wants to stab people."