For nearly an hour and a half, a man aboard a flight from Fort Lauderdale to Atlanta on Friday morning threw things at passengers and had verbal outbursts, a Spirit Airlines pilot told police.

But after the flight landed around 9:30 a.m., the man's outburst forced officers to physically remove him from the plane, according to another passenger's video posted on YouTube.

“There’s a bomb on the plane,” the man yelled.

When officers asked the man to get off the plane, the man threatens to blow the plane up, while yelling obscenities, the video shows. Two Atlanta police officers removed the man, whose name was not released, from the plane before placing him in handcuffs and transporting him to the hospital, according to police.

Investigators believe the man was suffering from mental illness and was possibly having a psychotic outbreak aboard the plane. No charges were filed against the man, police said.

No one was injured and no explosive devices were located, according to police.

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