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Tell us: Do you have bizarre air rage stories?
"Passenger arrested for punching captain and grabbing his crotch."- "Drunk passenger tries to hijack plane."
- "Lavatory smoking causes fight on aircraft, plane diverted."
Apparently, altitudes and changes in air pressure can temporarily cause psychological changes in a person. If the passenger is drinking alcohol, the effects can be enhanced for the same reason. As a result, there have been other terrible and embarrassing air rage cases like:
- passengers defecating on food carts,
- beating up the crew (pinching, slapping, burning with cigarettes, attacking with broken wine bottle glasses), and
- trying to sexually assault their seat-neighbor.
A recent study by the Civil Aviation Authority and the Department for Transport (UK) was published in the Daily Mail, and says that cases of air rage have increased four-fold over the past four years. Some startling facts from the report:
- From 2007-2008, there were 2,702 cases of air rage.
- 63% of incidents were caused by drunk passengers smoking.
- 78% of the cases involved male passengers.
- Incidents have increased by 20% in the past 12 months.
- The number of reported incidents of violence towards cabin crew nearly doubled from 2006/07 to 2007/08.
Any sort of aggression and violence on air crafts is unacceptable, but how can they be controlled? Limit the service of alcohol? Re-introduce a smoker area on board? Hand out nicotine patches to smokers?
Luckily, other than the odd grumpy complaining passenger, I have never experienced a case of air rage. Have you? What happened? How was it handled? Tell us in the comments section!
These women all went crazy on planes. Click the pictures to find out what they did.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Bert Dec 7th 2008 9:02PM
If booze-on-board is to be banned, then you have to ban air-side bars. Potentially you have to train security to identify and bar (pardon the pun) pre-drunk passegers.
As for the statistics... (damned lies?) the "78% of the cases involved male passengers"... what is the male-to-female ratio for all passengers?
I have never seen air-rage, though I have seen a few over-anxious people onboard.
Charlee Dec 9th 2008 8:05AM
Air rage is just another excuse for bad manners. Everytime we name something like this as a syndrome or condition, we make it more acceptable to engage in the behaviour. It's not MY fault, I'm suffering from air rage. Oh please!