WATCH: New video shows how passenger attack on flight attendant unfolded
New video and descriptions from witnesses are shedding light on what led up to a on a plane headed from Sacramento to San Diego last week.
The attack landed the passenger in jail and left the flight attendant with two missing teeth.
Passenger Michelle Manner was seated two rows from the back. She heard the commotion and pulled out her cellphone to record the altercation with three women in the back row.
"The flight attendant had told them to put their mask on over their entire face, not just near the nose," Manner said.
"They ended up in a screaming match," she added. "It ended with the flight attendant saying that she was going to go call the captain."
The flight attendant walked away, but just a few minutes later, witnesses said she was back talking to the back row. This time, she was leaning across two of the women. Manner said she reached toward the third woman seated against the window and told her to put her face mask on.
"The gal who punched the flight attendant had asked, had said, 'Get off me,' 'get your hands off me,' 'quit leaning on me,'" Manner explained. "She had made like three requests for her to back up and she didn't."
The woman, identified as Vyvianna Quinonez, is seen on video jumping out of her seat and attacking the flight attendant.
Taro Arai, of Sacramento, watched the whole thing from a couple rows farther up.
"Their voices were getting louder and louder, and then when I heard, 'Don't touch me,' I was about to start the video, and then she just stood up and started punching her," Arai said.
He explained that the plane was just about to land in San Diego.
"The flight attendant asking her to put the tray up, wear seat belt. Somehow, she didn't want to follow, so the flight attendant forced the issue," Arai said.
He recalls everything happening so fast that before he could do anything, a man sitting near the women stepped in.
"He said, 'You can't do that! Don't do that! You can't do that,'" Arai said. "The flight attendant in the back bleeding everywhere, looking at us from the hallway. It was like a horror movie to me."
Manner said there's no excuse for ever putting your hands on a flight attendant, but she believes this particular employee wasn't treating the passengers well. She said before the attack, she had already decided she was going to file a complaint with the airline.
"The flight attendant had given me pretzels, and as I was putting one in my mouth she was walking by and said, 'Put your mask back on,'" Manner recalled. "I just looked at my daughter and I was like OK..."
Quinonez is facing a felony count of assault inflicting great bodily harm.