Social [A**holes In The Sky] Flight Attendants Call For A National Ban List For Violent Air Passengers

[Arkain2K]

An unidentified business class passenger, later identified by German outlet DW as Mishra, drunkenly stood up and urinated on a 72-year-old woman in the row ahead of him.

Shortly after lunch was served and the lights were switched off on board AI 102 of November 26 (JFK New York to IGIA, New Delhi), the inebriated male passenger seated in Business Class seat 8A walked to the elderly woman’s seat (9A), unzipped his pants and urinated on her, the complainant stated.

what compels a man to do this? especially one who is very successful.

First or Business Class, the only way to fly..

Story is odd. Why didn't Indian bro fly first class or business?

What is up with Sherbros' reading-comprehension these days?

 

[Arkain2K]

Air India deserves to be roasted in the media, and the elderly lady should sue them for their indignified response to the situation.

Can't believe they made her continue sitting in the urine-soaked seat afterwards when there are other seats available, forced her to negotiate with the perpetrator, failed to file a police report until a month after she did it herself and the police already out searching for the drunken VP who went in hiding, and they didn't even bother to refund her ticket.

It's like they look at their PR guidelines and then did the exact opposite for every step.


"Buck Stops With Pilot": Co-Passenger Shreds Air India Crew Over Pee-Gate
Dr Sugata Bhattacharjee was seated next to Shankar Mishra, who urinated on a woman co-passenger.
January 09, 2023

It was triggering to hear the father of an inebriated man who urinated on a female passenger in an Air India flight claim that the incident did not happen, a co-passenger has said, as he noted that the accused was incoherent, and blamed the pilot for the inaction in dealing with the situation.

Dr Sugata Bhattacharjee, a US-based renowned Doctor of Audiology, was seated next to Shankar Mishra, who allegedly urinated on a woman co-passenger during the November 26 Air India flight from New York to New Delhi.

"I would not have been this vocal. I waited, but when his father said this did not happen, it triggered me," Mr Bhattacharjee told PTI in an interview over the phone.

"The dignity of a woman was played with. The Tata name has been tarnished. It's not a happy story. But at the end of the day, it was a moral call for me, it was morality and I thought it was my moral obligation to stand and make a complaint and I did," he said.

Mishra's father had said in Boisar near Mumbai last week that his son is innocent and that he cannot do such a thing to a woman his mother's age.

Delhi Police arrested Mishra, 34, from Bengaluru after he was traced to that city through technical surveillance. He has been sent to judicial remand for 14 days by a Delhi Court, which rejected a plea by police for his custody.

Mr Bhattacharjee sat in seat number 8A, while Mishra was in seat 8C in the business class.

He said that the law will take its own course, and did not comment on the ongoing investigation.

Mr Bhattacharjee in a handwritten complaint to the airlines had stated that the distressed passenger was made to go back to her soiled seat despite four seats in the first class being vacant.

He said that his "complaint was that they did not follow a lot of standard operating protocols. When something like this happens, you first contain a distressed passenger." "The whole incident is very sad. The dignity of a senior citizen was played with because of over-intake of alcohol, a young person is in trouble, he has lost his job, his family, everybody else around him is going through a hard time including him," he said.

He said that after the incident, the flight's crew should have taken it upon themselves to ensure that the lady is moved to a different seat, given that there were four seats available in the first-class section of the flight. Instead, the lady was made to wait for a long time, and it was only after the crew rest was over, that she was given one of the seats that became available.

"That is a no no. And that is what I protested," he said, adding that when he asked why the lady was not being given an available first-class seat, he was told by the senior air hostess that she cannot make that decision and only the pilot in command can make that call.

"And that call was not made. So, this is a failure," he said.

Mr Bhattacharjee further said that in any instance when a crime happens, "you don't try to mediate it and get away with it. They should not have put the victim and Mishra face-to-face for any negotiation." Instead, the captain should have alerted the ground staff about the incident before landing, and ensured that Mishra is handed over to the authorities who would have taken the appropriate action, he said.

"My anger was that nobody stood up to the responsibility and there were multiple failures in the procedural part," he said.

He said for the crew to make the woman talk to Mishra after the incident to sort out the matter was a "no-no because indecent exposure is a crime. It's a sexual assault. And once that happens, nobody should take a mediation route." "I was angry. I don't care about what a drunk man did because he's not in his senses and that's why he does it. But people who had the power and the authority, they showed no compassion. In a plane, the pilot is the chief person and the buck stops with him." Mr Bhattacharjee said the pilot should have done "anything and everything" to help and support the lady in all possible manner after such a traumatic incident.

Mr Bhattacharjee said that after the incident, Mishra came back to his seat and passed out.

He described the woman as very soft-spoken and said she was almost in tears after the horrific incident.

He said that even after the incident, the woman did not create any scene and did not shout or scream. "She was very quiet, she's a very, very decent lady." Mr Bhattacharjee said he made a written complaint about the incident the very same day. He said he had asked for a complaint book, but was handed over two pieces of white paper on which he wrote his complaint.

https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/sha...ext-to-peeing-accused-narrates-horror-3673705

 

[genecop]

What is up with Sherbros' reading-comprehension these days?

These Days?

 

[Fluffernutter]

Is there a caste angle to this story we are not being told about?

 

[MeatheadMike]

First or Business Class, the only way to fly..

As for the Air India pissing incident, the article says both the drunk Wells Fargo VP and the old woman he peed on were flying business class.

 

[ShadBo]

As for the Air India pissing incident, the article says both the drunk Wells Fargo VP and the old woman he peed on were flying business class.

To be fair, that guy can barely read.

 

[genecop]

As for the Air India pissing incident, the article says both the drunk Wells Fargo VP and the old woman he peed on were flying business class.

Well there goes my theory, right out the plane Window…

 

[Arkain2K]

Passenger gets naked, bites flight attendant, insists they’re all going to die
By Ben Cost | February 16, 2023

It was a true nightmare at 30,000 feet.

A Russian woman joined the ever-growing passenger hall of shame after undressing herself on a flight, biting a flight attendant and telling her fellow flyers they were all going to die. Footage of her epic mile-high meltdown is currently blowing up online.

The flight-mare kicked off after the unruly traveler, named Anzhelika Moskvitina, 49, locked herself in the lavatory and began smoking while on an Aeroflot flight from Stavropol to Moscow, East 2 West News reported. The Moscow native, who was suspected of being intoxicated, then bared her chest to her fellow flyers, including children, while telling them they were all doomed.

When a flight attendant attempted to pacify Moskvitina, she reportedly sunk her teeth into him, requiring him to seek medical treatment later after they landed.

Accompanying footage shows the traveler from hell clutching her naked breasts while arguing with crew members in front of the emergency exit.

“Lady, take a seat and get dressed. Where are your clothes?” a female stewardess says off-screen. “Do you understand you’re violating the behavior rules on the plane? There are children here. Respect them at least.”

Unfortunately, her commands are ignored by the woman, who retorted, “I respect children. What’s more, I love children …”

“I understand I’ll go to the mental hospital or a prison,” she adds. “But I want to go to the cockpit.”

At one point, a crew member attempts to put a shirt over Moskvitina’s naked breasts, prompting her to scream “please go away.”

The dramatic clip concludes with the bitten flight attendant, who still has blood on his shirt, approaching the crazed woman with plastic zip ties as she shrieks “leave me alone.”

Moskvitina was detained by authorities after the plane landed in Moscow.

Thankfully, crew members and business class passengers were able to cuff the woman and put her bra back on. A doctor on board then monitored Moskvitina while the plane arrived at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport, whereupon she was detained by police.

Aeroflot subsequently released a statement claiming that the Muscovite had been in “an inadequate state” and “grossly violated the rules of conduct on board the aircraft.”

“Due to the passenger’s destructive behavior, the aircraft commander decided to use a means of restraint on her,” the airline described. They also implored the powers that be to implement new laws covering air rage, as well as a blacklist identifying unruly passengers.

The woman has been informed that she could face criminal charges for wreaking havoc in the sky.

With her mid-air meltdown, Moskvitina joins a rarified pantheon of terrible airline passengers. Other recent additions included an Abu Dhabi-bound passenger who spit on and assaulted crewmembers and a drunk woman who asked a fellow passenger if he wanted to make whoopie on a flight from Greece to New York City.

https://nypost.com/2023/02/16/passenger-gets-naked-bites-flight-attendant-predicts-death/

 

[Arkain2K]

Passenger tries to stab flight attendant, open emergency door on United flight
ByEmily Shapiro | March 6, 2023



A United Airlines passenger was arrested after he allegedly tried to open a plane emergency exit door and then allegedly tried to stab a flight attendant, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office in Massachusetts.

The incident took place during a Sunday flight from Los Angeles to Boston.

Francisco Severo Torres, 33, allegedly tried to stab a flight attendant in the neck with a broken metal spoon after he was confronted about tampering with the door, federal prosecutors said. Fellow passengers tackled him and the flight crew helped restrain him, prosecutors said.

Torres later told police he went into the bathroom to break the spoon "to make a weapon," court records said. Torres also allegedly told investigators he believed a flight attendant was trying to kill him, so he tried to kill the flight attendant first, according to court records.

The incident began about 45 minutes before the flight landed, when the crew received an alarm about a disarmed door between the first class and coach sections, prosecutors said.

A "flight attendant found that the door's locking handle had been moved out of the fully locked position ... and that the emergency slide arming lever had been moved to the 'disarmed' position," prosecutors said.

Torres allegedly tried to open the door unsuccessfully and had "the idea to open the emergency exit door and jump out of the plane," according to court records.

After the door was relocked, a flight attendant told his colleagues that he saw Torres by the door and thought he tampered with it, prosecutors said.

A flight attendant then confronted Torres, who allegedly "responded by asking if there were cameras showing that he had done so," prosecutors said.

Torres then allegedly attacked the flight attendant, according to prosecutors. The flight attendant told police he wasn't hurt, according to court documents.

One of the passengers, Simik Ghookasian, told ABC News that when the suspect started to get loud, he thought it was a simple argument, but then he started yelling and screaming. When the suspect saw another passenger filming the incident, Ghookasian said, the suspect started screaming and running at the man filming.

A few "microseconds" later, Ghookasian said, a group of about five people, including himself, jumped on top of and tackled the suspect, pulling a broken spoon out of his hand and a cigarette lighter out of his pocket.

Ghookasian, who is a Red Cross volunteer, said he asked for zip ties so they could tie the suspect's hands and feet, and said the group of passengers held the suspect down for the remainder of the flight, about 20 minutes.

He described the incident as something out of a movie. Ghookasian said he majored in homeland security and has had a lot of training he believes helped prepare him for such an incident.

United thanked the "quick action" of its crew and passengers, adding, "The flight landed safely and was met by law enforcement."

Torres was charged with one count of interference and attempted interference with flight crew members and attendants using a dangerous weapon, prosecutors said. Torres made an initial appearance in court Monday and was detained. He's set to return to court on Thursday.

Sara Nelson, president of the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA, AFL-CIO, said in a statement, "When incidents like this happen, it not only risks the safety of the crew involved, it takes away from Flight Attendants' ability to respond to medical, safety or security emergencies."

"This is another example of the urgent need for a national banned disruptive passenger list," Nelson said. "We call on Congress to pass the Protection from Abusive Passengers Act."

https://abcnews.go.com/US/passenger...oor/story?id=97664838&cid=social_twitter_abcn

 

[Arkain2K]

MAN REPEATEDLY PUNCHES UNITED AIRLINES GATE AGENT AFTER SHE ASKED HIM TO VACATE FIRST CLASS SEAT HE POACHED
By MATTHEW KLINT POSTED ONMAY 3, 2023



An ugly situation unfolded prior to a United Airlines redeye flight to Houston after a man became agitated when asked to move out of a first class seat that was not even his own. Before the dust settled, the thug repeatedly punched a female gate agent.

Crazed Passenger First Tries To Steal First Class Seats Then Punches United Airlines Gate Agent When Told To Move

Cody Benjamin Lovins, 47 years old, and his wife took a pair of first class seats on a United Airlines late-night flight from San Francisco (SFO) to Houston (IAH). Neither of those seats was assigned to them and when Naya Jimenez boarded the flight, she found her seat occupied.

When she gently explained that Lovins’ wife was in her seat, the couple directed her to find another seat. Eventually, a flight attendant came by and Jimenez asked for assistance. A gate agent was brought onboard where the Lovins explained they had decided to upgrade themselves because they faced a flight delay earlier. The gate agent explained that self-upgrades were not permitted, prompting anger (Mr. Lovins was also slurring his words at this point). Refusing to move, the gate agent said that the Lovins would have to step off the aircraft and could not travel to Houston.

Lovins then stood up and attacked the gate agent, repeatedly punching her (Jimenez said this was a flight attendant, but it appears to be a gate agent, as does United’s statement below on the incident). He was pulled off by other passengers aboard and retreated to the front galley, where he pulled open an emergency exit door and was about to jump (to his death or least broken bones) when he was pulled back to safety.

He was then arrested and charged with battery.

A United Airlines spokesperson confirmed the incident:

“On Sunday night, our team at San Francisco International Airport immediately contacted law enforcement after a disruptive customer assaulted one of our customer service employees during boarding. This customer’s behavior was unacceptable, he has been banned from future United flights, and we are working with local law enforcement in their investigation.”

https://liveandletsfly.com/punches-united-airlines-gate-agent/

 

[Arkain2K]

More than three dozen unruly passengers referred to the FBI in 2023​

By Pete Muntean, CNN | August 8, 2023


Some unruly airline passengers get so unruly that the FBI gets involved.

Nearly two dozen more passengers – some accused of physical or sexual assault on fellow flyers and flight crew members – now might face potential criminal charges, bringing the number of passengers facing charges so far in 2023 to just over three dozen.

On Tuesday, the Federal Aviation Administration said that in the second quarter of this year, it sent 22 new cases of unruly passenger incidents on board commercial flights to the Federal Bureau of Investigation for “criminal prosecution review.” Since the start of the year, 39 cases have been referred to the FBI.

Notably, the referrals include a passenger who allegedly airdropped a bomb threat to other passengers in October of last year.

In another case dating back to July 2022, the FAA says a passenger “sexually/physically assaulted an unaccompanied minor.”

The FAA says a passenger in April of this year “yelled, cursed, threw objects at passengers and had to be restrained in cuffs.”

The FAA can only assess civil fines against passengers for violating its zero-tolerance policy for unruly behavior on board flights, regularly referring the most egregious cases to the Justice Department for possible charges. The policy went into effect on January 13, 2021, to address an increase in unruly passenger incidents. The policy skips warnings or counseling and goes directly to penalties, which can include heavy fines and jail time.

Cases that make it to the FBI​

In 2021, as air travel ramped up from historic lows prompted by the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, nearly 6,000 incidents of unruly behavior were reported to the FAA, compared with 1,161 before the pandemic in 2019.

In 2022, reports dropped to 2,455. So far this year, 1,177 incidents have been reported.

A fraction of reported incidents are investigated, and a smaller number prompt enforcement action, often in the form of fines. A small number of cases make it to the FBI for possible criminal prosecution. More than 270 cases have been referred to the FBI since 2021, according to the FAA.

Last year, a man charged with groping a flight attendant was sentenced to six months in prison and another unruly passenger received a four-month prison sentence.

https://www.cnn.com/travel/unruly-passengers-fbi-faa-2023/index.html

 

[Arkain2K]

American Airlines passenger ordered to pay nearly $40K after forcing flight to be diverted
By Social Links for Yaron Steinbuch | Nov. 16, 2023


A Hawaiian woman has been ordered to pay almost $40,000 in restitution to American Airlines after she interfered with a crew member and forced her flight to be diverted.

Cayla Farris, 29, was sentenced by District Judge Susan Brnovich to a time-served sentence of 3.6 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, the US Attorney’s Office in Arizona said in a release.

During that time, Farris will not be allowed to travel by commercial aircraft without prior approval.

She also was ordered to pay $38,952.00 in restitution to American Airlines for delay-related costs due to her actions on a flight from Phoenix to Honolulu on Feb. 13, 2022.

“During the flight, Farris used profanity and threatened the flight crew and passengers onboard. As a result of her behavior, the flight crew was unable to continue their duties,”

“The captain ultimately decided to turn the plane back to Phoenix. For passengers on board, this disturbance caused several flights to be re-routed to Hawaii,” it added.

Farris pleaded guilty Sept. 12 to interference with a flight crew member.

American Airlines passenger ordered to pay nearly $40K after forcing flight to be diverted

“During the flight, Farris used profanity and threatened the flight crew and passengers onboard. As a result of her behavior, the flight crew was unable to continue their duties,” the statement sai…

nypost.com

 

[Siver!]

Time to star breathalyzing and drug testing these clowns.

Form a list of incompetent passengers. They are the only ones who need the extra steps.

They can be tested before they are allowed to board.

If they still misbehave, ban them.

Treat them like naughty children.

 

[Arkain2K]

Passenger arrested after trying to open plane exit door, reportedly on meth​

By Nathan Diller, USA TODAY | Nov 23, 2023

A Korean Air passenger was arrested last week after trying to open a plane’s exit door during a flight.

The flyer was on a trip from New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport to Incheon International Airport in South Korea that departed Wednesday, according to airline spokesperson Jill Seungwon Chung. “The attempt was stopped by our crew members, and the passenger was arrested by the airport police upon arrival,” she told USA TODAY in an emailed statement.

Airport police said the passenger, a 26-year-old woman, tested positive for meth, the Korea JoongAng Daily reported. Korean Air did not address additional details.

Travelers could face 10 years in prison for trying to open an exit door, and up to 10 years in prison or a fine of nearly $77,000 related to the drugs, according to the outlet.

The incident comes after a man successfully opened an emergency exit door on an Asiana Airlines flight in May, injuring at least 12 people. The plane was heading from the South Korean island of Jeju to Daegu at the time.

Passenger arrested after trying to open plane exit door, reportedly on meth

A Korean Air passenger was arrested after trying to open a plane’s exit door last week.

www.usatoday.com

 

[GearSolidMetal]

Time to star breathalyzing and drug testing these clowns

Hard to do that when alcohol is served on flights.

I'd be in favor of permanent bans if they'd completely ban all alcohol.

 

[Thrawn33]

Hard to do that when alcohol is served on flights.

I'd be in favor of permanent bans if they'd completely ban all alcohol.

I'm of the mindset that as a responsible adult you can drink as much as you want, but if your actions negatively effect others then you get treated harshly.

 

[Lucas1980]

I'm of the mindset that as a responsible adult you can drink as much as you want, but if your actions negatively effect others then you get treated harshly.

I like some drinks when I'm flying to calm my nerves and never acted up or even really talked.

 

[Thrawn33]

I like some drinks when I'm flying to calm my nerves and never acted up or even really talked.

Couple good stiff drinks help me sleep on the plane.

 

[Sara]

They should be allowed to ban people that shit and piss on them (not talking about someone getting food poisoning)

 

[Lucas1980]

Couple good stiff drinks help me sleep on the plane.

Yep...I usually sleep the whole flight after a few and I don't bother a soul on the plane