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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]
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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.
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 ...
The number of unruly passengers aboard U.S. passenger aircraft has never been higher.
It'll be hard to ever top that nasty bit of air rage, at least short of an actual act of terrorism", Forbes wrote in 2015 after an incident involving hotel heir Conrad Hilton III on a flight from London to Los Angeles. [3] Writing in The Wall Street Journal in 2006, Eric Felten described the incident as the "nadir" of drunken misbehavior on a ...
Cruising Altitude: Why air rage on airplanes is every traveler's problem Reports of passengers acting up on flights peaked in 2021, with many of the roughly 6,000 incidents involving anger over a ...