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Man Accepts Plea Deal For Hitting Flight Attendant In The Face

DENVER (CBS4) - There's been a plea deal for an unruly passenger on board an American Airlines jet.

Varoujan Khodjamirian was on a flight from Los Angeles to New York when it was diverted to Denver last October. Police say he was drunk and made threats to a flight attendant and then hit her in the face.

Under the deal Khodjamirian agreed to a pay the airline $24,000 and received probation instead of jail time.

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