United Airlines: Man charged in unprovoked beating of passenger on flight

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United Airlines crew and passengers had to stop what court documents describe as an unprovoked beating of a man on a flight on Monday.

A criminal affidavit alleges that as Everett Chad Nelson was walking back from the bathroom about two hours into the flight, he stopped at seat 12F and “began physically attacking a sleeping male passenger.”

Nelson punched the…