Court records say a passenger on a small regional flight to Miami attacked a flight attendant, kicked and punched the seat of the person in front of him and swallowed rosary beads as pilots returned to the airport in Savannah,

The man also kicked a flight attendant, an arrest affidavit said. He and his sister said they were traveling to Haiti to escape “religious attacks of a spiritual nature.”

A passenger on a flight to Miami from Savannah, Georgia, attacked a flight attendant, kicked another passenger’s seat, and had a violent outburst mid-flight.