Duct-taped on a flight...
In the old days, If you get unruly on a flight the pilot takes the plane to the nearest airport where authorities are ready to greet you. They don't have time for such bullshit now and it appears they will duct-tape you to the seat as they continue to their intended destination.A woman in an American Airlines flight decides she wants to leave the plane in mid-flight, attempting to open the front door, attacking flight attendants and spitting on them.
The woman was taped to her seat for the rest of the flight...
Links to the Yahoo story:
TikTok video from a passenger exiting the plane.
Comments (15)
They should have used a couple of rolls on the mouth of the last 'so-called' president.
I lived in a house in El Paso years ago and they would get sand storms and the house would be full of sand, it was coming in around the doors and windows. They didn't worry about air tight houses because there weather was so mild.
The sand in the house happened one then I got busy with the duct tape. When I finished I swore the house was held together with duct tape..
It's one thing to restrain a passenger who poses a threat, but duct taping them to a seat and over an airway is surely inappropriate, especially given the woman was acting irrationally.
Should they have offered her coffee and a doughnut?
Would you suggest that the only alternative to murdering George Floyd was giving him a coffee and doughnut?
Duct taping a passenger to a chair with their hands behind them and duct tape blocking an airway could have ended in disaster.
Clearly the duct tape over this woman's mouth had nothing to do with passenger safety given she couldn't move. That was done to shut her up in the interests of other people's comfort.
If she was trying to get out of the plane during flight, she clearly wasn't acting rationally. I think the days of tying up and caging people with psycholgical aberrations ended a while back.
Steward staff should be trained to restrain safely and humanely, as well as with techniques to diffuse volatile situations. Is it really that much of a surprise that a passenger might experience mental ill-health and panic mid-flight?
I dare say staff did what they thought was appropriate, but so did Derek Chauvin.
I would say it's a matter of culpability now. The airline might be at fault for not training staff, nor providing safe restraint equipment. On the other hand, staff may have not adhered to protocol and/or allowed an emotional/vindictive element to over-rule their training.
A passenger trying to open a door and attacking staff mid-flight is a safety concern, but not surprising - that should have been prepared for.
A restrained passenger making noise is not a safety concern, so taping up her mouth really needs to be investigated.
Wondering about this airline passenger's personal history and if there had ever been a history of mental illness before, or was this another suddenly without any warning episode. If so, taking one alive is pretty rare.
Also the doors should be opened remotely from some where else. I don't even like the thought of any passenger being able to open the doors.
Yes indeedy. You have a point apart from the plumber using duct tape when 9/11 happened.
I reckon a pocket knife will suffice and a roll of duct tape to quell the dissenters. It's all fun and games until the plane crashes down.
Well done Jacky Chan
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