Passenger keeps on flicking lighter, Frontier Airlines flight diverts

A Frontier Airlines domestic flight between Kansas City and Phoenix was forced to divert to Denver after a passenger kept on flicking his lighter and refused to hand it over to the cabin crew for the remainder of the flight. 

In a short clip that appeared on social media, the passenger seemed not to respond to the cabin crew’s request to give up the lighter.

Backed up by the captain, with a verbal and final warning, the crew could not else than to divert to Denver, where the passenger was handed over to law enforcement. After the passenger was removed from the flight, he was transported to a nearby hospital for a medical evaluation.