Autopsy finds passengers killed man in ‘air rage’ case: “A man who attacked other passengers and pounded on the

cockpit door during a Southwest Airlines flight in August was killed by other passengers, not by a heart attack as originally believed, an autopsy

has concluded.

However, the U.S. Attorney’s office is not filing any criminal charges, saying Jonathan Burton’s Aug. 11 death was merely an act of self-defense

by frightened passengers.” I had found the original news reports of a putative “heart attack” in a 19 year-old unlikely (although not impossible); this version strikes me as quite tragic, since my take on the young man is that he was probably acutely psychiatrically disturbed. Did he really represent a critical threat? Nando Times