Please remain seatedUnruly passenger incidents in the United States were still considerably more frequent in 2023 than they were pre-Covid, according to the Federal Aviation Administration, though down from their 2021 peak. In May, a woman was removed from a Frontier Airlines flight in Denver, Colorado, after hitting a flight attendant with an intercom phone. Medical emergenciesThere was – excuse the turn of phrase – a surprising streak of human-waste-related incidents on planes in 2023. In June, airline passenger Habib Battah was handed wet wipes to deal with blood and excrement in his seat footwell on an Air France flight from Paris to Toronto. In March, an off-duty pilot on a Southwest Airlines flight between Ohio and Las Vegas stepped in to help after one of the on-duty pilots needed medical attention mid-flight.

Source: CNN December 27, 2023 21:32 UTC