(Photo Credit: Instagram- lt32hawk)

New York Mets reliever LaTroy Hawkins was flying from Dallas-Ft Worth (DFW) to Santiago, Chile (SCL) on a dove hunting trip when he stepped in to help the flight attendants with an unruly passenger.

American Airlines Flight 945 had to make an unscheduled landing in Lima, Peru at 4am. Hawkins and another passenger helped subdue and then escort a troublesome passenger off the plane.

Here is what Hawkings wrote on Instagram about the photo above:

Find out more about the story in the ESPN article here.

What would you do if the flight attedants needed help on a flight that you were on? Would you get involved?