News tagged with 'Air Rage'

A New York man arrested in September on air rage allegations pled guilty last week to one charge of interfering with a flight crew. Manuel Soto, 48, was traveling from New York City to Tampa aboard a US Airways jet when he was caught smoking in the lavatory. A confrontation ensued and Soto became agitated when told h

This week marks the beginning of the trial of an Iranian national who allegedly threatened to kill Americans while on board an Air Canada flight. Javid Naghani purportedly became infuriated after he was caught smoking in the plane's lavatory. Witnesses claim he then threatened to kill Americans if detained. Inf

A recent KLM flight from Amsterdam to Newark, NJ was full of surprises. A passenger endangered all of the passengers on the flight when he tried to open an emergency door in the middle of the flight almost 6 miles above the Atlantic Ocean. When the passenger first got on the plane, he showed a coach ticket but then sa

Zoe Campbell, 27, was sentenced to nine months in jail after admitting to assaulting three flight attendants on her flight from Orlando, Florida to Manchester, England. The assault occurred after Campbell was told that she could not smoke during the flight.

Two separate international flights were forced to land at Bangor International Airport in Maine to unload disruptive passengers. A British Airways flight from England to Mexico City and a Britannia Air flight from England to Cancun, Mexico were both forced to land in Bangor. The British Airways flight stopped in

Recently, a passenger aboard a United Airlines flight from Chicago to Hong Kong was arrested after the 747 aircraft was forced to make an unscheduled landing in Alaska. The Chicago man yelled at fellow passengers and the flight crew and proceeded to rip a telephone from the wall of the plane. Officials characterized

A California city official was physically removed from a Northwest Airlines jet after the plane landed in Los Angeles yesterday. Charles Burke, 54, was taken into custody by Los Angeles police officers after the plane's pilot reported that Burke acted bizarrely on the flight from Minneapolis. In an apparent case of a

An English woman pleaded no contest to charges of air rage and assault after her abusive behavior caused a flight from Orlando, Florida to London to make an emergency landing in Bangor, Maine. The woman received a three-day jail sentence for hitting one passenger and verbally abusing another. After the flight crew sa