The numbers confirm it: A whopping 5,981 reports of unruly passengers were logged by the FAA as of December 31. Of those, 4,290 -- nearly 72% -- were mask-related incidents.
A Delta flight headed to Los Angeles from Washington D.C. was diverted to Oklahoma City Thursday night after a passenger assaulted a flight attendant and an air marshal, authorities say.
"Today when flight attendants put on their uniforms, they don't know if it's going to be a signal of leadership and authority for safety in the cabin or a target for a violent attack," she said.Before 2021, the FAA didn't track the number of unruly passenger incidents reported because the number was fairly consistent. But a sharp uptick in unruly passenger behavior in late 2020 spurred the agency to begin tracking the reports in 2021.
"Our work is having an impact and the trend is moving in the right direction. But we need the progress to continue," FAA Administrator Steve Dickson said in a news release marking a 50% drop in September. But the figure at that time was more than twice as high as the end of 2020, the release said.Consequences for unruly passengers
Nelson said eventually seeing convictions and jail time for some passengers will"serve as the most effective deterrent to these incidents on the planes."There's a new effort to keep unruly flyers grounded in reaction to this summer's trend of people throwing a fit while flying.
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