Passenger dragged off Plane

[Warrigal]

Another report of United Airlines and a disruptive passenger. This time he was clearly out of line but he was not dragged off the plane. All of the other passengers were deplaned and the flight was delayed by about 3 hours.

http://the-daily.buzz/a/man-in-dona...2&tse_id=INF_e91ce6303fe711e785b761b07d40d40a

 

[oldman]

Another report of United Airlines and a disruptive passenger. This time he was clearly out of line but he was not dragged off the plane. All of the other passengers were deplaned and the flight was delayed by about 3 hours.

http://the-daily.buzz/a/man-in-dona...2&tse_id=INF_e91ce6303fe711e785b761b07d40d40a

So, this is what we have come to. It's like this particular passenger was playing a game of chicken. "Let's see you pull me off of this plane, so I can sue the crap out of you." Almost reminds me of "A Christmas Story" when Ralphy gets a "Dog Double Dare." How immature and childish people can be..

What passengers never take into consideration is the condition of the aircraft while all of this is going on. The pilots have the plane configured for departure when all of a sudden, they have to get out their checklist for shutting down the plane. Once the plane has been shut down, there is a minimum amount of time that the engines and electronics (avionics) have to remain cold before a restart may begin. This all takes time and costs the airline thousands of dollars. Who pays for all of this? The passenger, of course. The airlines are not going to eat a loss caused by an unruly passenger. This is not to mention the amount of work the pilots have to go through to put the plane back into a cold shutdown and then do a restart. It really does put the passengers at risk. I have seen engines flame-out during episodes like this. Once that happens, more than likely, the flight would be cancelled and then no one is going anywhere.

Sometimes, I think we are our own worse enemy.

 

[Butterfly]

What the heck ever happened to good manners and civility, anyway??? Many people don't seem to care at all about how their idiotic behavior in public affects others. You're not on the plane to advance your political views; you're on that plane to get somewhere, so just sit down, be polite to others, and enjoy the ride. GEEZ!

 

[oldman]

It wasn't too many years ago that we were flying from New York to Los Angeles when I received a message from air traffic control that we were going to be held at the gate pending the arrival of two U.S. Marshalls that were escorting a well known prisoner back to LA. Originally, I had been advised that it would only be 5-10 minutes. Of course, I didn't believe that for a minute. After almost waiting 20 minutes, we were told to push back from the gate and hold before turning to go to the runway. The next thing that I saw happening was a couple of the baggage handlers pushing out an airstair, so the three men could board the plane without having to go through the terminal.

Once boarded, the three men sat in the last row of the plane with the prisoner between them. Everything went well, until we reached the runway and I throttled up the engines when the prisoner started complaining very loudly that he was scared to death to fly and was also claustrophobic. The one Air Marshall gave the prisoner a pill and told him to take it and he would feel better in a few minutes, which he did. I have always wondered what the pill was that they gave him. One of the flight attendants told me that he slept almost the whole way to LA.