Tarek El Moussa Intervenes After 'Unruly' Passenger Charges Toward Flight Crew on Plane, Source Says
Tarek El Moussa to the rescue! While on a flight this week, the 40-year-old star apparently helped de-escalate a situation on a Jet Blue flight coming out of New York that he was on with his wife, Heather Rae El Moussa.A source tells ET that «after a long day of travel and hours of delays, both mechanical and weather related,» the couple finally made it onto a plane around midnight on Monday, but the pilot then «announced that they would not be flying as the crew had timed out.»This is said to have angered one of the passengers, who the source says was «highly intoxicated and unruly.»"[The passenger] aggressively charged up the aisle toward the pilot and flight attendants at the front of the plane, verbally and physically assaulting the crew," the source says. «While everyone was in shock, Tarek jumped up to intervene and to prevent the situation from escalating.