Drunk woman dragged off flight after violent meltdown over ‘fat’ seatmate

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An inebriated woman was dragged off a Southwest Airlines flight by police after grabbing another female passenger’s hair and throwing a tantrum at New York’s LaGuardia Airport.

Video from the cabin prior to takeoff early Tuesday shows passengers filming as several travellers and flight crew try to take down the woman as she holds onto another woman’s hair and calls her a “fat-a** b****.”

One person tries to calmly tell her to “let go of her hair,” which the woman responds to by grinning and denying doing — despite clearly holding a fistful of the other passenger’s locks.

Another passenger attempting to free the woman’s hair adds, “You can’t do that. You need to let go right now.”

While still holding tight onto the woman’s hair, the drunk passenger can be heard telling someone snippily, “I’m sorry, I didn’t want to sit next to a f***ing fat lady.”

Leanna Perry, 32 — an artist and designer who works for Maybelline New York, according to the New York Post — eventually lets go of the woman’s hair but wasn’t finished attacking her and launches a tirade at her and other passengers as airline employees and others restrain her.

“Ugly a** bitch,” Perry rants before trying to spit on the woman while others work on zip-tying her wrists behind her back.

Perry then says that she “can’t breathe” and falls to the floor between seats, the clip shows.

She then begins violently kicking and screaming expletives, according to another video posted on Reddit.

One flyer can be heard asking, “Can anybody do something, please?” as Perry continues to flail about.

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She then becomes emotional and tells everyone to leave her alone before going into another expletive-ridden tantrum before the video ends.

Port Authority Police said they responded to a “report of an intoxicated passenger on a Southwest Airlines flight at Terminal B of LaGuardia Airport.”

Perry was taken to a local hospital before she was handed over to the New York City Department of Corrections, authorities said.

She was arrested and charged with aggravated assault.

“The Customer involved in the incident was removed from the flight and denied boarding,” a Southwest Airlines spokesperson said in a statement to the Post.

“We commend our team for their professionalism during the incident.”