A flight from Phoenix to Boston was diverted overnight after an "unruly passenger" refused to stop doing pull-ups from the overhead baggage compartment.

WBZ-TV reports that American Airlines Flight 2763 left Phoenix around 6:30 p.m. Monday. A man who boarded the plane with a woman and two dogs was stumbling and appeared intoxicated, passengers told the television station.

He was hanging on to the overhead baggage compartments doing pull-ups, passengers said, and later became belligerent.

"The flight attendant probably asked him three or four times to sit down and he refused to sit down and then he really got verbally abusive with her, starting calling her names," passenger David Markoski WBZ-TV.

The flight landed in Kansas City, Missouri Monday and the man was escorted off the jet by security, according to the television station. His name was not released and it was not clear if he could face charges.

The flight continued on and landed in Boston just after 1 a.m. Tuesday.