In its effort to curb what the FAA has described as a dramatic increase in unruly or dangerous behavior aboard passenger airplanes, the agency on Tuesday released a public service announcement with a simple message: “Unruly behavior doesn’t fly.”
Unruly passengers aboard commercial flights are making the skies anything but friendly, according to the Federal Aviation Administration.
The FAA posted the video Tuesday on Twitter, along with statistics about unruly passengers this year. Some of the most extreme incidents were those like that involving a passenger on a JetBlue flight from New York to Orlando, Florida, on May 24 who was accused of throwing objects at other passengers, refusing to stay seated and lying on the aisle floor, according to the FAA. The passenger, who was fined $45,000, was also accused of grabbing a flight attendant by her ankles and putting his head up her skirt, which forced the pilot to make an emergency landing in Richmond, Virginia.
Apparently in response to duct-taping incidents, John Slater, senior vice president of inflight services for United Airlines, told employees in a memo this month to seek other solutions.