Unruly, maskless passenger forces London-bound flight to return to Miami

A surge in bad behavior has meant grappling with a surge in bad behavior for airline staff.

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The New York Times reported that 129 passengers paid a steep price when a masked disruptive customer forced American Airlines flight AAL38 to turn around and go back to Miami. After the flight had traveled 500 miles, the reversal occurred off the North Carolina coast.

American Airlines said in a statement that a woman in her 40s was refusing to comply with the federal mask requirement.

The passenger was escorted off the plane by MDPD officers after the plane made it to the gate. According to CNN, a police detective said that the passenger was dealt with by American Airlines staff.

The flight pattern for American Airlines flight 38 was tracked by FlightAware. There is a screen shot of FlightAware.

Unruliness has become commonplace even though the outcome was dramatic. Sara Nelson, president of the national flight attendants' union, told the Guardian in October that this is happening every day.

It happens about 16 times a day. According to the FAA records, there were 5,981 unruly passenger reports last year. A total of 4,270 of those were listed as mask-related incidents. The FAA says the number of mask related incidents has dropped by half since the beginning of the year.

A woman who swore at flight attendants and was asked to leave, a man who was duct-taped to his seat, and a woman who held a baby on her way out were all incidents last year.

In September, a flight attendant who wished to remain anonymous described the situation in stark terms to the Guardian: "I go to work now and I always worry what's going to happen, what's going to trip somebody up,trigger their anger." There is a new type of passenger we are seeing right now.

This month, an American woman noticed that her throat was hurting while flying from Chicago to Iceland. She took a Covid test and stayed in the bathroom for the rest of the flight after she found out she was positive.