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This is a list of air rage incidents in commercial air travel that have been covered in the media. Air rage occurs when airline personnel or passengers act violently or disruptively towards others. When these incidents have occurred in flight, they have often required the pilots to divert and make an emergency landing in order to remove the ...
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]
Ryanair has sued a disruptive passenger for everything from lost drinks sales to excess fuel as part of a vendetta against air rage incidents at the airline. The budget airline said last week it ...
Several factors have united to create tempests in the teapots that hurtle across our nation's skies every day.
Two recent inflight brawls – both on Ryanair flights from Edinburgh to Tenerife – have drawn renewed attention to the problems of drink-fuelled air rage. On the first occasion, Spanish police ...
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The number of unruly passengers aboard U.S. passenger aircraft has never been higher.
On August 11, 2000, Jonathan Burton, a Las Vegas resident, stormed the cockpit door of the Boeing 737 while in flight, in an apparent case of air rage. The 19-year-old was subdued by six to eight other passengers with such force that he died of asphyxiation. [4] The death was initially believed to have been a heart attack.