New Delhi, Oct. 6 -- A plane headed for New Jersey made an unscheduled stop after a disruptive passenger, reportedly wearing more than a dozen face masks, began shouting alarming statements like "Trump is here" and that gay people were "giving him cancer".

The Sun Country Airlines flight departed Minneapolis for Newark on Friday morning but was diverted and forced to land in Chicago when the man's behaviour escalated. According to The New York Post, he started shouting, "The plane is going down," prompting crew members to initiate emergency procedures.

Fellow passenger Seth Evans, seated across the aisle from the disruptive passenger, told the Minnesota Star Tribune that the disruption began as soon as the plane took off. The individual...