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Unruly Passengers
- Interfering with the duties of a crewmember violates federal law.
- Federal Aviation Regulations 91.11, 121.580 and 135.120 state that "no person may assault, threaten, intimidate, or interfere with a crewmember in the performance of the crewmember's duties aboard an aircraft being operated."
- As part of the FAA's Reauthorization Bill (PDF) FAA can propose up to $37,000 per violation for unruly passenger cases. Previously, the maximum civil penalty per violation was $25,000. One incident can result in multiple violations.
Thread Index:
- American Airlines passenger charged for punching flight attendant, diverting flight (Jan 5, 2024)
- Frontier Airlines unruly passenger caught on video freaking out, claiming she was "kidnapped" (Nov 21, 2023)
- Korean Air passenger arrested after trying to open plane exit door, reportedly on meth (Nov 23, 2023)
- American Airlines passenger ordered to pay nearly $40K after forcing flight to be diverted (Nov 16, 2023)
- More than three dozen unruly passengers referred to the FBI in 2023 (August 8, 2023)
- Man attacked United Airlines gate agent after being asked to vacate the First Class seat he stole (May 3, 2023)
- Aeroflot passenger gets naked, bites flight attendant (Feb 16, 2023)
- Air India urinating incident victim says she was forced to negotiate with perpetrator against her wishes (Jan 7, 2023)
- Wells Fargo India VP arrested, fired for urinating on elderly passenger on Air India flight (Jan 7, 2023)
- Frontier Airlines flight diverted after unruly passenger discovered with a box cutter (Nov 10, 2022)
- Violent passenger tries to strip on flight to Charlotte. Now he faces prison (June 30, 2022)
- Maxwell Berry, unruly passenger detained with duct tape on Frontier flight, sentenced to 60 days in jail (May 4, 2022)
- 'Homophobic' first-class passenger accused of assaulting Delta flight attendant (April 27, 2022)
- Bipartisan bill to protect airline crews from convicted violent passengers
- Mike Tyson throws punches at unruly passenger on JetBlue flight (April 21, 2022)
- FAA to make zero tolerance unruly passenger policy permanent (April 20, 2022)
- Unruly passenger arrested for using emergency slide to exit Chicago-bound plane (April 20, 2022)
- American Airlines Passenger Who Tried To Open Door Midflight Faces Record Fine (April 15, 2022)
- Southwest Airlines passenger masturbated four times on flight, feds say (April 6, 2022)
- Man Seen in Viral Video Punching Southwest Employee Faces Battery Charges (March 24, 2022)
- FAA refers 80 cases of unruly passengers to the FBI (Feb 22, 2022)
- American Airlines Flight Attendant Hits Unruly Passenger With Coffee Pot, Stops Him From Opening Plane Door Mid-flight (Feb 17, 2022)
- Unruly passenger on Frontier flight restrained with zip ties, plastic wrap after violent threats (Feb 17, 2022)
- American Airlines flight makes emergency landing after unruly passenger causing chaos
- Man tries to open door during Delta flight to spread his anti-vaccine views (Feb 16, 2022)
- Republican Senators push back against No Fly list for convicted unruly passengers. (Feb 16, 2022)
- Delta asks DOJ to put convicted unruly passengers on a national No-Fly list (Feb 7, 2022)
- American Airlines passenger apprehended after storming cockpit, damaging aircraft controls (Jan 11, 2022)
- 3 Canadian airlines refused to bring home 'idiot' Quebecers who partied their way to Cancun (Jan 6, 2022)
- Woman charged with making lewd advances toward passengers, assaulting airline crew (Dec 28, 2021)
- Delta flight from Tampa to Atlanta ends in injuries (Dec 26, 2021)
- Woman who busted flight attendant’s teeth pleads guilty (Dec 23, 2021)
- Delta plane makes emergency landing after passenger assaults flight attendant and air marshal (Dec 10, 2021)
- 10 passengers accused of unruly behavior on flights face $225K in fines, FAA says (Nov 11, 2021)
- 'One of the worst displays of unruly behavior': American Airlines bans passenger after flight attendant injured (Nov 1, 2021)
- ‘I will break your neck’: Combative United passenger kicked off flight after making threats (Oct 16, 2021)
- Flight attendants are taking self-defense classes (Sept 27, 2021)
- Passenger on JetBlue flight tried to storm cockpit, choke flight attendant (Sept 24, 2021)
- Flight diverted after Hawaiian Airlines flight attendant assaulted by unruly passenger (Sept 23, 2021)
- Delta banned over 1,600 unruly passengers, urge other airlines to share ban lists.
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