A 31-year-old passenger is accused of hitting a flight attendant, kicking and punching a passenger's seats and eating rosary beads on a flight to Miami.

Court records say a passenger on a small regional flight to Miami attacked a flight attendant, kicked and punched the seat of the person in front of him and swallowed rosary beads as pilots returned to the airport in Savannah,

An American Airlines flight was forced to make an emergency landing on Tuesday night just moments after takeoff when a passenger swallowed a string of rosary beads and assaulted crew members, according to an FBI affidavit reviewed by The New York Times.