Can't say I am looking forward to getting on a plane though it will be a necessity this summer.
A Delta flight from Los Angeles to Nashville, Tennessee, made a surprise landing in Albuquerque, New Mexico, on Friday afternoon after a passenger attempted to break into the cockpit.
The “unruly” man made the unsuccessful attempt on the locked cockpit aboard Delta Air Lines Flight 386 but other passengers and crew managed to detain him, the airline said.
Video taken aboard the plane shows the zip-tied and shoeless man surrounded by passengers and crew members as he repeats over and over again: “Stop this plane!” He finally was picked up and hauled to the back of the plane, which was diverted to Albuquerque International Sunport. * * *
Friday’s incident was just the latest report of passengers behaving badly on airplanes as travel picks up after the depths of the pandemic.
Southwest’s flight attendant union said there were 477 passenger misconduct incidents on the carrier’s flights between April 8 and May 15, including the incident Sunday morning on a flight landing at San Diego International Airport.
A Colorado man accused of disrupting an Alaska Airlines flight from Seattle to Denver by refusing to wear a mask and then standing up and urinating in the cabin faces a federal charge of interfering with a flight crew and attendants that carries a maximum term of 20 years in prison and a possible $250,000 fine.
With everybody on high alert and on the lookout for 'passenger misconduct issues', I predict it's going to become particularly difficult to join the 'Mile-High Club' for a while.
-"BB"-
Yes, I suppose I could agree with you ... but then we'd both be wrong, wouldn't we?
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
