The FAA received thousands of reports of unruly airplane passengers during the pandemic, but the behavior in more than 250 of those cases was so egregious that it might warrant criminal prosecution, the agency is set to announce Thursday.
In one case last year, a traveler assaulted a flight attendant and passenger, then deployed the aircraft’s evacuation slide while the plane was on the tarmac.
The numbers were released a year after a federal judge struck down a mask mandate for airplanes and public transportation. The mandate was a source of conflict that put flight attendants on the front lines of enforcing one of the nation’s longest-lasting coronavirus mandates. Disruptions linked to the mask requirement drew the attention of travelers, lawmakers and regulators.
It wasn’t immediately clear Thursday what action the FBI may have taken in the cases. Luis Quesada, assistant director of the bureau’s criminal investigation division, said in a statement: “The FBI will continue to work with our FAA partners to ensure the safety of all passengers and to combat violence aboard commercial flights. We remain committed to investigating all incidents that fall within FBI jurisdiction aboard commercial flights.
Even so, the latest batch of 17 referrals to the FBI, which involve incidents during the past 11 months, show that assaults and other threatening behavior by some passengers remain a problem.
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