Published on Dec 28, 2016 
 
 20 minutes after take off flight has to turn around and go back to Minneapolis 
 
 
 
 For licensing and usage, please contact licensing@viralhog.com ||||| An unruly couple was marched off a Delta flight in handcuffs after their behavior caused the plane to turn around 20 minutes after takeoff. 
 
 Wednesday night’s 6:20 p.m. trip from Minneapolis to Los Angeles quickly returned to the Twin Cities after the airline said that the pair “refused to follow crew instructions, became aggressive and created a disruption.” 
 
 Both Blake Adam Fleisig and Anna Christine Koosmann were arrested and face disorderly conduct charges. 
 
 A passenger on the flight told KMSP that the disruption started after Koosmann got up to use the bathroom shortly after the plane took off, and did not listen to crew members telling her to go back to her seat. 
 
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 Blake Adam Fleisig (left), 35, and Anna Christine Koosmann (right), 36, were arrested for disorderly conduct. 
 
 Delta Air Lines and airport police did not respond to questions about what exactly led to the passengers being upset. 
 
 Video of the incident posted online shows the couple being escorted off the aircraft, with the 36-year-old woman swearing and saying “Why? For what? For what?” 
 
 One passenger in the clip says the 35-year-old Fleisig, whose LinkedIn page says he works as a vice president at finance firm Citi in New York City, had attacked someone while being removed. 
 
 The couple were escorted off of a Delta Airlines flight Wednesday night after allegedly causing a disruption. (fastpacedmgmt via YouTube) 
 
 Airport spokesman Patrick Hogan told the Daily News that Fleisig was booked and released at the airport, but that Koosmann was taken to the county detention center for booking after she was "uncooperative." 
 
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 Neither Koosmann or Fleisig immediately responded to request for comment. 
 
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 We're getting our first look at a couple arrested on board a Delta Air Lines flight.Delta says the couple was being "disruptive" and "not obeying commands of the flight crew" on board the flight from Minneapolis to Los Angeles last night.ABC News has learned the flight crew called ahead to airport police 20 minutes after take off, and said they had to return because of the allegedly unruly passengers.When they arrived back at the airport in Minneapolis, police boarded the plane and took the couple in for questioning.Video posted to social media by Patrick Whalen shows the moment the couple was taken off the aircraft.It is still unclear what exactly the couple was doing to make the flight return to the airport.The FBI is also investigating. ||||| Video (01:38) : A man and woman caused a disruption on a Dec. 28 flight heading to Los Angeles from the Twin Cities. This video was shot by a passenger. Provided by Patrick Whalen 
 
 A defiant couple disrupted a Delta flight Wednesday evening soon after it left Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport for Los Angeles, causing an upheaval that forced the airliner back to the Twin Cities. 
 
 Police led the man and woman off the plane as fellow passengers jeered, prompting the man to take a swing at one of the passengers, a witness said. 
 
 Flight 2565 left about 6:20 p.m. only to show up back at the Twin Cities airport at 7:35 p.m., said MSP spokesman Patrick Hogan. 
 
 Delta spokesman Ashton Morrow said that the couple “became aggressive and created a disruption in the cabin.” 
 
 Neither spokesman was able to say what got the man and woman riled up in the first place. A passenger who shot video of the episode said the woman wanted to use the bathroom, but became agitated after being ordered back to her seat. 
 
 Airport police identified the man as Blake A. Fleisig, 35, of Los Angeles, and the woman as Anna C. Koosmann, 36, of Edina. Court and jail records also list her as being from Los Angeles. 
 
 Left, Blake A. Fleisig. Right, Anna C. Koosmann 
 
 Koosmann was cited for disorderly conduct and obstructing the legal process. Fleisig was cited for disorderly conduct. Both were booked in jail and released. Several messages were left Thursday for both Fleisig and Koosmann seeking their response to the allegations. 
 
 Once the airliner returned to the Minneapolis airport, several police officers came aboard to escort the two away, a video shot by a passenger and posted on YouTube showed. 
 
 Patrick Whalen, a concert tour staging executive who shot the 98-second video from the plane’s first row while on a business trip, said Koosmann was upset because a flight attendant told her she couldn’t use the bathroom in the flight’s first few minutes. 
 
 The flight captain twice said over the intercom that the people in back needed to return to their seats, Whalen said. 
 
 His orders ignored, the captain warned, “ ‘If you don’t sit down, we’re going to turn the flight around,’ ” Whalen said. 
 
 And sure enough, Whalen said, he could feel the plane swing around and head east back to the Twin Cities. 
 
 Passengers taunted and jeered the couple, not handcuffed at this point, as officers led them off, Whalen said. 
 
 It was amid the verbal barbs, just when it looked like the commotion in the plane had subsided, that Fleisig “punches one of the passengers,” Whalen said. 
 
 Officers took Fleisig to the floor and shouted “stay down!” along with other commands, Whalen’s video showed. 
 
 “Her boyfriend attacked somebody back there,” one passenger could be heard saying. 
 
 As Koosmann was led by police off the plane, one of the officers said, “You’re already going to jail.” 
 
 Koosmann replied, “Why? For what? For what?” 
 
 Whalen, a former Minnesotan who worked with Prince for several years and now lives in Los Angeles, said he got in his own verbal jab at Koosmann as she passed by. 
 
 “ ‘You’re going to be famous,’ ” he recalled telling her. 
 
 Applause broke out once the two were gone from the airliner, and the resumed flight reached the gate in Los Angeles about 2¼ hours late, according to flightaware.com, a flight-tracking website.
– If the pilot of your plane tells you over the intercom he's going to turn the plane around if you don't sit down, it's probably best to take a seat. But per the Star Tribune, a woman flying on Delta from Minneapolis to Los Angeles on Wednesday apparently didn't take such a warning seriously, and she and a man with her were arrested after the plane swung back to Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport. The flight crew had called ahead to cops about 20 minutes after takeoff, KTRK reports, with a Delta spokesman telling the Star Tribune the couple had "[become] aggressive and created a disruption in the cabin." The rep didn't say what allegedly set off either 35-year-old Blake Fleisig or 36-year-old Anna Koosmann, but a passenger who shot video of part of the incident says Koosmann got irritated when she was told she had to stay seated and couldn't use the bathroom just a few minutes into the flight. The video shot by Patrick Whalen from the plane's front row shows police leading Fleisig and Koosmann down the aisle of the plane to disembark while other annoyed passengers take verbal swipes at them—until Fleisig punches another passenger, per Whalen. Cops can be seen bringing Fleisig to the floor and yelling at him to "stay down." As the two are finally led off the plane, an officer says to Koosmann, "You're already going to jail," to which she replies, "Why? For what? For what?" The two were hit with disorderly conduct charges (Koosmann also was charged with obstructing the legal process), and an airport rep tells the New York Daily News Fleisig was booked and released right at the airport, while Koosmann remained "uncooperative" and was taken to a local detention center. (Did this "known prankster" act unruly on a Delta flight?)