Las Vegas flight disrupted by man holding shoe; man with box cutter arrested at Chicago airport

LOS ANGELES - A passenger holding a shoe punched a flight attendant and opened the rear door of a Southwest Airlines jet as it was about to take off for Las Vegas, authorities said. <br> <br> &#34;His words were that everybody on the plane was going to hell,&#34; passenger Michael Fitzhugh said. &#34;You could see the panic of the passengers.&#34; <br> <br> Police at the Los Angeles airport arrested David Boone, 36, of New Orleans, on Monday for investigation of interfering with a flight crew. He was jailed without bail for a federal court appearance Tuesday. <br> <br> Also Tuesday, a 20-year-old man was charged in federal court in Chicago with trying to bring four pocket knives, a box cutter, two flares and a bottle of lighter fluid onto an airplane out of Midway Airport. <br> <br> Security screeners found the items in Steven Paul Johnson&#39;s carry-on bag along with a one-way ticket on an American Trans Air flight to Orlando, Fla. He was arrested without incident. <br> <br> Authorities said they had no explanation for why Johnson, whose hometown police said was Marshalltown, Iowa, was carrying the items. <br> <br> In California, authorities said the 6-foot-2, 210-pound Boone stood up on the Los Angeles-to-Las Vegas flight as the Boeing 737 was pulling away from the terminal with 142 people aboard. <br> <br> &#34;He approached the rear of the aircraft with a shoe in his hand and as a flight attendant tried to prevent him from opening the rear door, he hit her in the head with his fist,&#34; FBI spokesman Matthew McLaughlin said. <br> <br> The attendant suffered minor injuries. No one else was hurt. <br> <br> Boone then allegedly opened the door but surrendered when two male passengers moved to subdue him. He was believed to have been drinking. <br> <br> The shoe contained no trace of explosives, authorities said. <br> <br> Last month, Richard Reid, 28, allegedly tried to blow up an American Airlines Paris-to-Miami flight with explosives hidden in his shoes. He was overpowered by flight attendants and passengers. <br> <br> <br>