From newspaper accounts since 2010 of incidents in which airplane passengers were removed or flights were rerouted in response to passenger behavior. Compiled by Shayla Love and Winston Choi-Schagrin.
An elderly man on a delayed Hong Kong Airlines flight struck a stewardess several times as passengers clapped and cheered.
A woman on a Thai AirAsia flight threw hot water and instant noodles at a flight attendant after being told that she couldn’t be seated with her friends. Her companion yelled that he would “bomb the plane.”
Moments after a Jet Airways flight landed, a passenger opened the emergency exit, jumped…
