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Passenger. >> he said "he flashed a box knife at me, and said, 'i want to kill or i want to stab people.'" >> reporter: the flight diverted to atlanta, passengers deplaned, police moved in. that's when larry cumberbatch, another passenger and navy veteran, says the man got agitated, and a third passenger, a former police officer, took action. >> the ex-police officer said, "hey, don't do that. and he tackled him or grabbed him and tackled him to the ground. >> the agents involved in the incident will be retrained and nationally, all tsa agents will be briefed on what happened here and reminded...

Maybe the assailant was on drugs. everything they are saying is that no, he was fighting back. they had to knock him out and hit him on the head with one of the two weapons to calm him down before they could hog tie him. to get that away from him he was attacking spencer with a box knife. we are learning the extent of his injuries. his thumb was coming off and they had to reattach the nerves and the tent ones. this, if you will, this attacker silent and utterly determined. he didn't seem at all on some kind of drugs. >> all the passengers on the

Little more difficult for the three men to get control of him. and spencer did wind up getting cut a few times by this man with the box knife, but thank god they were able to get control over him before he was able to seriously hurt anyone else. >> absolutely. true heroes indeed. now to some developing political news in the race for the white house. we have learned that vice president joe biden unexpectedly traveled to washington, d.c. this morning for a private political meeting at the naval observatory. the vice president was supposed to spend the weekend at his home in delaware. could thi...