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New Jersey passenger gets pummeled after instigating fight on Frontier Airlines flight
A New Jersey man received a gruesome black eye along with a court date after an unprovoked, mid-flight attack on a fellow passenger brutally backfired.
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New Jersey passenger gets pummeled after instigating fight on Frontier Airlines flight
By
Shane Galvin
Published July 3, 2025
Updated July 3, 2025, 9:22 a.m. ET
He took the black-eye flight.
A New Jersey man received a gruesome shiner along with a court date after an unprovoked, mid-flight attack on a fellow passenger brutally backfired, according to reports.
Ishaan Sharma, 21, who hails from Newark, allegedly assaulted Keanu Evans for no apparent reason as their Frontier Airlines flight from Philadelphia approached Miami-Dade International Airport, WSVN reported.
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4 Ishaan Sharma, 21, started an unprovoked, mid-flight attack on a fellow passenger that brutally backfired, according to reports. Miami Dade Corrections & Rehabilitation
In the moments before Sharma allegedly grabbed Evans by the throat, the victim said the 21-year-old, who sat one seat ahead, was muttering strange things and issuing death threats.
“He was doing some, like, dark laugh like, ‘Ha ha ha ha ha.’ And he was saying things like, ‘You puny, mortal man, if you challenge me, it will result in your death,’” Evans recounted to the outlet.
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Sharma became irate when Evans pressed the assistance button and called for help from Frontier staff.
A video circulating online allegedly showed Sharma standing over Evans and grabbing him by the throat before the tables quickly turned.
4 A video circulating online allegedly showed Sharma standing over Evans and grabbing him by the throat. Rosa Gergely
Evans can be seen serving Sharma several heaping helpings of in-flight knuckle sandwiches as he threw haymakers at the now-cowed instigator.
“Let him go! Stop, let him go,” unidentified passengers pleaded with Evans as he more than adequately defended himself against the creepy assailant.
4 Sharma was taken into custody at Miami-Dade and is charged with battery, according to the sheriff’s office. X / @ONLYinDADE
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Mugshot photos show Sharma with a huge shiner and a cut over his left eye.
Evans also suffered a couple of scratches on his face but expressed regret over having to mete out midair justice.
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“It makes me feel bad because I don’t want people to get the wrong idea about who I am as a person,” Evans lamented to WSVN.
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Sharma was taken into custody at Miami-Dade and is charged with battery, according to the sheriff’s office.
Attorneys for Sharma claimed the Newark man was “meditating” and that Evans was somehow upset by the silent practice that was supposedly occurring at the time of the altercation.
4 In the moments before Sharma allegedly grabbed Evans by the throat, the victim (Keanu Evans, above) said that Sharma was muttering strange things and issuing death threats. WSVN
“My client is from a religion where he was meditating,” defense attorney Renee Gordon said, according to the Daily Mail. “Unfortunately, the passenger behind him did not like that.”
Frontier Airlines did not respond to The Post’s request for comment.