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Air rage is aggressive or violent behavior on the part of passengers and crew of aircraft, especially during flight. [1] [2] Air rage generally covers both behavior of a passenger or crew member that is likely caused by physiological or psychological stresses associated with air travel, [3] and when a passenger or crew member becomes unruly, angry, or violent on an aircraft during a flight. [4]
United Airlines Flight 895: On January 9, 2001, the flight from Chicago to Hong Kong had to divert to Anchorage after a passenger, 44-year-old Steven Tabloff, spat at other passengers, swore at flight attendants and ripped a phone out of the plane's wall. Ultimately four other passengers had to restrain and handcuff him.
Lockerbie: A Search for Truth is a limited British television drama series directed by Otto Bathurst and Jim Loach, based on the 2021 book The Lockerbie Bombing: A Father's Search for Justice by Jim Swire and Peter Biddulph. It stars Colin Firth as Swire, who embarks on a quest for justice after his daughter, Flora, dies on Pan Am Flight 103.
Passengers who engage in unruly physical gestures, verbal harassment, unruly inebriation, physically abusive behaviour, or any life-threatening action on board an aircraft can be placed on the list. A passenger on the list is prohibited from flying on any aircraft operated by the airline that placed them on the list for the duration of their ban.
Since 2021, the FAA has referred more than 310 cases of unruly passengers to the FBI for criminal prosecution. Many cases involved a passenger physically assaulting or sexual harassing other ...
The FAA said the rate of passenger misbehavior has dropped by more than 80% since early 2021, when many confrontations with flight attendants and other passengers started with travelers who ...
An unruly JetBlue Airways passenger on Tuesday was restrained by multiple flyers and turned over to law enforcement upon landing in New York City from London, the airline said.
As disruptive airplane passenger incidents regularly hit the headlines, aviation experts and flight attendants are questioning what can be done to turn the tide. Unruly passengers were a problem ...