Court records say a passenger on a small regional flight to Miami attacked a flight attendant, kicked and punched the seat of the person in front of him and swallowed rosary beads as pilots returned to the airport in Savannah,

The Envoy Air passenger allegedly kicked a flight attendant in the chest during the episode, according to court documents obtained by PEOPLE

Less than a minute after an American Airlines flight departed from Savannah, Georgia, for Miami on Monday night, chaos erupted as a passenger began "stomping, yelling and shaking," before attacking two flight attendants and aggressively striking the seat in front of him.