Dana Ghazi Mustafa, 27, is accused of lashing out at crew members and federal air marshals during United Airlines flight 933 on February 22. The plane arrived at Dulles International Airport in Virginia at 8:15 p.m. having departed from Frankfurt in Germany, according to flight data.

During the nine-hour trip, Mustafa allegedly became embroiled in confrontations with staff and “spontaneously uttered” a series of threatening remarks out loud.

After being restrained by marshals, the suspect allegedly said: “I’m going to stab everyone on this plane. Then kill myself. I’m Palestinian! That’s how we get down.”

According to a complaint obtained by WJLA, the altercation started when flight attendants were alerted to the activation of a smoke detector in the plane’s toilet. They found the woman inside the lavatory, told her not to smoke during the flight and asked her to return to her assigned seat.

Shortly after, crew spotted the woman “crying and visibly upset” and she was moved to another seat. Around this time, she allegedly told staff she was flying home to see family but they had “died in a car accident caused by a drunken driver.” She was moved to another seat for better comfort.

While she was being relocated, the complaint said a federal air marshal had “detected the odor of alcohol” coming from the woman. The situation appeared to quickly escalate, officials say.

After being seated again, Mustafa “punched the television monitor in the seat back” and hurled a coin in the cabin, the complaint said. Shortly after, the woman was spotted walking to the rear of the plane while “striking the flint of a lighter.” She was seated again, but not for long.

Authorities said within 10 minutes, the suspect again moved toward the end of the cabin holding the lighter, before pushing a flight attendant and trying to close herself in the toilet. After being confronted by marshals, she continued to refuse to comply and “was combative.”

Officials alleged Mustafa “resisted by pulling her arms away, tensing up and yelling for the FAM [federal air marshal] to get away.” She allegedly struck one marshall several times in the shins. In her belongings was a “half-empty one-liter bottle of Absolut vodka,” the complaint noted.

A “lighter and burned-out cigarette” were allegedly found in her possession.

It was after being seated next to an air marshal that she allegedly made several threatening statements. She allegedly uttered “What’s the point of living?” and asserted that she wanted to punch one of the federal air marshals in the face and had been imagining stabbing him.

After landing at Dulles, the suspect was interviewed by an FBI agent. The woman allegedly admitted the story about her family being killed by a drunken driver had been a lie. “Mustafa had difficulty recalling the facts of what she had previously said,” according to the complaint.

While the top penalty for assaulting a federal officer is eight years in prison, the Department of Justice (DoJ) noted that actual sentences are “typically less than the maximum penalties.” The woman’s preliminary hearing is currently scheduled for today at the federal courthouse in Alexandria.