With actual passengers getting more violent than ever, the TSA has re-launched a voluntary program suspended by the pandemic that trains flight crews in self-defense skills.
"Help!" yelled a flight attendant as she grabbed a knife-wielding man and wrestled to pin the knife against her hip."I need help!"The knife was made of rubber. The man was a fellow flight attendant. They struggled not in a life-or-death brawl inside a cramped airplane cabin, but instead practiced at a padded gymnasium with their federal air marshal instructors.
Amid the return to air travel this year, the number of unruly and violent passengers is spiking. More than 100 incidents were reported to the Federal Aviation Administration in the last week -- for a total of more than 3,600 so far this year. "You get on a plane full of people and some of them are not very happy and you just never know what's going to happen," said Carrie, a flight attendant who took the class as she returns to work after a pandemic-related leave of absence.
In one instance, the FAA said a passenger"tried to open the cockpit door, repeatedly refused to comply with crew members' instructions, and physically assaulted a flight attendant by striking him in the face and pushing him to the floor." After crewmembers restrained the passenger in plastic handcuffs, he"freed himself from one of the handcuffs and struck the flight attendant in the face a second time." The passenger was not named in the report.
Back at the training, Donna O'Neil was practicing an elbow strike that she could use if a violent passenger charges her in the aisle or galley from behind. She has 47 years of experience and said she is"pretty good at calming things down."
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