Joe Rickey Hundley, accused of slapping another passenger's 2-year-old boy, is facing federal assault charges, CNN and 11alive.com reported.
The high-level manufacturing executive -- president of Idaho-based Unitech Composites and Structures -- was also suspended from his job, pending the outcome of an investigation.
Hundley "told her to shut that (N-word) baby up," FBI special agent Daron Cheney said in a sworn statement obtained by the Associated Press. "Ms. Bennett received assistance from several people on the plane."
The alleged incident took place on Feb. 8 when a Delta flight from Minneapolis was preparing to land in Atlanta.
