A Newark-bound commercial flight was forced to land in Chicago after an erratic passenger wearing over a dozen masks started ranting that gay people were giving him cancer. “The Sun Country Airlines plane departed Minneapolis for Newark. The incident happened on a Friday morning but was rerouted to Chicago after the man’s outbursts escalated into screaming, including shouting, The plane is going down!” Rawsalerts wrote. “Passengers said the chaos began shortly after takeoff, when the man started rambling about being gang chased by gay people. He also claimed he was being radiated and cooked by them, insisting they were giving him cancer. Witnesses reported the man had no less than 15 masks over his mouth and, at one point, bizarrely shouted Trump is here. The flight landed safely in Chicago, where the passenger was turned over to law enforcement and removed from the aircraft without further incident,” the post added. #BREAKING: A plane was forced to divert after a passenger wearing over a dozen face masks who ranted that gay people were giving him cancer, claiming he was being chased by them and shouting Trump is here. #NewJersey | #USA A New Jersey-bound flight was forced to divert… pic.twitter.com/ZUksaKhtny — R A W S A L E R T S (@rawsalerts) October 6, 2025 More from the New York Post: But screaming deluded conspiracies wasn’t all the man was good for — between each outburst he buckled down and played a round of Candy Crush, before standing up and mouthing off again at top volume. The game was over, however, when his declarations were made about the plane crashing. Once on the ground at O’Hare International Airport, the man was handcuffed and hauled off by Chicago police. Passengers were questioned by US Marshals before the plane took off again and completed its journey to Jersey. “The flight landed without incident and the passenger in question was turned over to law enforcement and removed from the aircraft,” the airline said in a statement, according to Daily Mail. “We appreciate our passengers’ patience during the interruption to their travels and the flight is continuing on to Newark this morning,” it added. Plane forced to land after wacko wearing ‘15 masks’ screams that gay people were giving him cancer https://t.co/5n4fKAIvrl pic.twitter.com/38nesacyl6 — New York Post (@nypost) October 5, 2025 Daily Mail noted: The FBI has since taken over the case and is now leading the investigation. Friday morning’s incident is the latest in a long string of unruly passengers threatening flight safety and stranding travelers on sometimes hours-long – or even multi-day – journeys. Just last month, a growling drunk woman fought back against a police officer who tried to pull her off a Frontier airlines flight for allegedly threatening to blow the plane up.