Drunken passenger banned by Delta Airlines after bragging about carrying poisonous gas



Mugshot photo of Bryan Sisco, who has been banned from Delta after telling a female passenger that he had snuck a canister of poisonous gas onto the flight. He also proceeded to show her a small torch which he lit in front of her. The female passenger alerted flight attendants, which led to the flight being diverted to Memphis.

A man has been banned from flying with Delta Airlines for life after allegedly telling the passenger sitting next to him that he had a canister of poinsonous gas on him.

He said the gas was strong enough to make everyone on the plane pass out.

Bryan Sisco, 40, forced the Dallas to Atlanta flight to be diverted to Memphis where was arrested by police.

After spending four days in custody, he was released on a $10,000 bond and charged with carrying a weapon or explosive on an aircraft.

Sisco, who had been drinking Jack-and-Cokes before boarding the plane, tried to flirt with 23-year-old Danielle Valimont, who was sitting next to him.

He had decided to sit down in a random seat and she happened to sit next to him.

He offered her chocolates and told her he was an architect and a flight marshal.

When the flight attendant and another passenger tried to claim the seat, Sisco said he and the woman were newlyweds, the Memphis Commercial-Appeal reports.

In a drunken attempt to impress her, recently-divorced Sisco allegedly pulled out a butane lighter and then bragged about the gas.

He said: 'We were talking, sharing M&Ms, eating chocolate, having a good time.

'I fabricated some truths about myself ... I thought we were getting along pretty good.'

A Delta Air Lines Inc. Boeing 767-332 (N1402A) is pushed back from a gate at the Salt Lake City International Airport in Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S., on Monday, Dec. 28, 2009. Delta Air Lines Inc., American Airlines parent AMR Corp. and UAL Corp. fell in New York trading as a terrorism attempt on a Christmas Day flight to Detroit highlighted potential aviation risks. Photographer: George Frey/Bloomberg via Getty Images

In a blog Miss Valimont said that Sisco was 'jittery' when she sat down and within a couple of minutes, she texted 'I'm sitting beside a crazy man.'

He then reportedly said to her: 'Have you ever wondered if someone could get something on the plane they weren't supposed to?'

She claimed that he opened his book bag and pulled out a silver metal torch-like item and put it near her leg.

She wrote: 'He clicked a button and a 4-6 inch blue flame shot out ... I acted as if it was no big deal, though my heart was racing.

'"That's cool - what else do you have?" I said. He opened his bag and pulled out an item that looked similar to the end of a headset and told me it was like a tazer and could cause temporary paralysis.'

When Miss Valimont picked up the cylinder Sisco was carrying that he had said was architectural drawings, he apparently said it was a canister 'filled with gas strong enough to make everyone on the plane pass out.'

Miss Valimont then got up and headed to the bathroom where she typed on a note on her iphone and showed it to a flight attendant.

The note said: 'If the guy in 20D is a Marshall disregard this msg. He has a torch that he lit and showed me.

'And he said his canister has a gas device that will make everyone on the plane pass out if there is danger.

'He also has a device that says is like a tazer. I will go sit back down. Do what you need to.'

The pilots then diverted the plane and police dressed as paramedics came aboard to arrest Sisco.

He had fallen asleep and had no idea he was the cause of the ensuing drama.