Flying Off the Handle
An intoxicated young man caused quite a disturbance on a sleepy red-eye flight when he stumbled down the aisle and emptied his bladder on an 11-year-old girl. From exhibitionists to gropers, see more plane passengers’ bizarre in-flight antics.
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JetBlue flight attendant Steven Slater may be charged with a felony, but he's clearly a hero to many. Within hours of his dramatic exit from an airplane on Monday, Slater had become a martyr for the air-stressed, and perhaps the entire cubicle set.
Being stuck inside a poorly ventilated speeding metal box with hundreds of strangers is a bad scene to begin with. Add an increasingly nickel-and-dime experience in which delays, overcrowding, and short tempers are routine, and you have an ever-present recipe for disaster. Most people adjust (or self-medicate, as the case may be) for a few hours and deal. But some eventually snap. Certainly the air-travel zeitgeist changed on 9/11, but the in-flight zero-tolerance policy has yet to entirely deter the entitled, drunk, or mentally ill (and, apparently, the beleaguered flight attendants) from sparking mayhem. From the naked man in the middle seat to the in-aisle defecator, here are some of the most notable freakouts in recent airline history.
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