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| Unruly Passengers per week per 10,000 flights since January 2021 |
Seems like unruly passengers make the news on a regular basis, like several times a year. This happens when someone gets drunk or mad and starts throwing punches and gets tackled by the air crew or other passengers. They eventually get hauled off of the airplane by the police and taken to the pokey.
This chart shows it is not a rare event but a somewhat common occurrences, well it is if you can call one percent of all commercial flights common.
However, look at the chart. The number of incidents is very high at the beginning of 2021 and has been tapering off ever since. But notice the very low number at the extreme left of the of the chart. That is not an artifact but is in fact representative of the preceding 25 years.
This chart does not use the same criteria as the one at top. This one shows the total number of investigations for the year. The number of flights has varied over the years. They were reduced during the COVID lockdown and the number of investigations reflects that. However, the number was still at a fairly low level. Curious how it jumped up in January 2021. What could have happened to make it jump up like that? Well, Biden became President in that month. You don't suppose that had anything to do with it, do you? Were people losing their minds because Zuckerberg stole the election?
Via FlightAware and FOX Business
The pandemic prompted airlines to give flight attendants more authority to flag disruptive passengers. If they are in some way offended by your behavior they just tell the captain and he orders you off the plane. The flight attendant doesn't even have to explain what you did.
ReplyDeleteIf you refuse then the police come take you away.