Is it just me, or are there more instances of crazy people flying these days?
I think I'll stick to the ground.
Female passenger from yesterday
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,11069-2315896,00.htmlBipolar passenger killed in Miami
http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/12/08/airplane.gunshot/Hasselhoff deemed unfit to fly
http://www.tmz.com/2006/07/27/drunk-hasselhoff-deemed-unfit-to-fly/Drunk passenger breaks window in fit of air rage
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2006/07/20/2003319565Drunk flight attendants attack passenger
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/07/21/1090089223414.htmlPlane diverted after note found
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/world/4126393.htmlAnd on and on...
Here's some "passengers from hell" stories from flight attendants from the UK 2001
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/talking_point/1452360.stmAnd my favorite
Man defecates on bar cart in 1996
"The Associated Press reported that a 56-year-old managing director of a Greenwich, Conn., trust company was busted after going berserk on a United Airlines flight. The trouble started on a flight from Buenos Aires to New York city last Oct. 20. when the banking guru made a deposit in a lump sum.
The banker, a Gerard Finneran, had become extremely hammered on the flight and began pouring drinks on his own head. When the flight attendants tried to stop him, he went on a rampage, threatening one stewardess and shoving the other into an empty seat. "Later," the AP dispatch reported, "Finneran lowered his pants and defecated on the food cart, authorities said, using linen napkins as toilet paper."
He was arrested on landing and released on $100,000 bail, and told he could not fly on a commercial airliner without first obtaining written permission from the federal prosecutor. For some strange reason, the court also ordered that he "undergo evaluation for alcohol abuse." No shit.
The good news is that the rest of the passengers said that the food cart fare tasted better than usual after the incident."