On Monday, April 27 a passenger on Delta Air Lines flight 2879 from Atlanta to Chicago O’Hare did his best Howard Beale impression . Stuck on board the Boeing 737-900 due to thunderstorms and air traffic control congestion, the man was mad as hell and he wasn’t going to take it anymore . The plane was scheduled to depart Atlanta at 5:24 p.m. and arrive at 6:35 p.m. The FAA had issued a ground stop for flights headed to O’Hare due to storms. That lasted until around 7:15 p.m. The aircraft didn’t leave the gate until 7:38 p.m. A ground delay program continued through 3:00 a.m. due to air traffic congestion that backed up because of the ground stop. So passengers sat on the aircraft. One man got aggressive. He demanded to be taken back to the gate. He threatened that if they didn’t let him off, he’d take matters into his own hands. He yelled, threatened to open the aircraft door, threw bags – and eventually did manage to turn the handle but not enough for the emergency slide to deploy.…