The truth about air rage

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For the 2001 American action film, see:- Air Rage (film).

China_air_rage — China air rage

If sitting on the tarmac or waiting in a security line get your blood boiling, be glad you aren't flying in China. The waits are so painfully long, air rage has become a growing problem. Paul Johnson reports. For more info, please go to http://www.globalnews.ca.

Air_rage_is_becoming_routine — Air rage is becoming routine

A string of air rage incidents in the first months of 2013 highlight air traveler tensions and frustrations.

Flight_attendants_want_'air_rage'_fines_boosted — Flight attendants want 'air rage' fines boosted

Pilots say air rage has been a problem for years, and over the past two decades, the FAA has fined or taken action against 4,000 passengers. The most common contributor to a passenger’s unruly behavior is alcohol. (Today Show 2/2/2015).

Overview[]

Air rage is the general term for disruptive, anti-social, sexed up and/or violent behavior perpetrated by passenger s and air crew of aircraft, typically during flight.

In the first book on the subject "Air Rage: Crisis in the Skies", air rage is defined as "aberrant, abnormal, or violent behavior exhibited during the air travel process".

Air rage comes in two different types: angry/hostile and angry/emotional. It covers a wide variety of passenger behaviors caused by physiological and/or psychological stresses associated with air travel. When a passenger becomes unruly, angry and/or violent on board an aircraft, it typically qualifies as air rage. Excessive alcoholic beverage consumption is often blamed by cabin crew and flight attendants.

Stress, anti-social people, jet-lag, air-pressure changes, annoying kids, flight delays, stifling heat, traveling on the red-eye, alcohol, huge egos, autism, Tourette's syndrome, ADHD, ODD, narcissistic personality disorder egos, paranoia, hard drugs, football hooliganism, Down's syndrome, senility and anger-management issues are all being periodically blamed by staff and passengers alike.

Unlike ground vehicles, airplanes enter altitudes where changes in air pressure can help trigger temporary psychological changes, such as enhancing the psychoactive effects of chemicals like alcohol which is typically served on board.

Adding to the challenge, evicting offenders from the plane is often unpractical, as an unscheduled landing would further inconvenience the airline, the crew, and other passengers. Furthermore, as there is insufficient room on board to isolate offenders, they generally have to be restrained and bound to their seat. For that reason, long-haul airliners carry plastic handcuffs/zip-ties, and attendants receive special training.

Air rage can have serious security implications, especially if the offender tries to interfere with the aircraft's navigation and flight controls, or attempts to depressurize the cabin (i.e. by opening a door or breaking a window).

Air rage events have increased markedly since the September 11 attacks. No definite explanation for that trend has been established: heightened anguish for one's safety, increased irritation with Airport security repercussions due to the September 11 attacks, such as invasive security, or other normally unremarkable causations.

The first case of air rage was recorded in 1947 on a flight from Havana to Miami, when a drunk man assaulted another passenger and a flight attendant. Another early documented case involved a flight in Alaska in 1950.

Laws[]

At the time, applicable Jurisdiction was unclear, so offenders often escaped punishment. It wasn't until the 1963 Tokyo Convention that laws of the country where the aircraft is registered were agreed to take precedence.

Qualifying behaviors[]

Air rage occurs when air travelers or airline personnel act violently, abusively or disruptively towards others in the course of their travel. When these incidents have occurred in flight, they have often required the pilots to divert and make an emergency landing in order to have someone taken off the flight as the safety of those on board cannot be guaranteed otherwise; on the ground they have led to delayed departures. Often they involve unruly passengers but sometimes crew members have been at fault. In the case of the former, the incidents have resulted in criminal charges; unruly crew often face disciplinary action including termination and, in some cases, charges as well.

Air rage is generally used to describe a large set of unsubmissive behaviors aboard commercial airliners. More recently, it has also defined disruptive attitude inside airport terminals.

Qualifying conduct may include:

Undue anger.
Gratuitous violence.
Temper tantrums.
Storming in or out of places and\or aircraft.
Narcissism.
Rioting.
Questioning authority.
Fighting over money.
Obsessive use of mobile phones.
Xenophobia.
Uncooperative conduct.
Threatening crew members and other passengers.
Public urination and defecation .
Undue anger.
Unruliness.
Obnoxiousness.
Threatening flight safety, or behaving in a way that gives suspicion of such a threat.
Failure to follow safety regulations.
Behaving in a way that gives suspicion of a threat to flight safety.
Claiming to have a bomb on the flight or falsely saying they are a terrorist with malignant not jocular intent.
Murder.
Disruptive behavior.
Threatening the safety of the aircraft, crew members and other passengers.

Other related behavior that may interfere with the comfort of cabin crew or passengers include smoking on board the flight, viewing pornographic materials, performing sex acts ("mile high" club) in the aircraft cabin and/or aircraft lavatory, making undue sexual advances towards other people, the groping inappropriate and touching of crew members, loud or drunken behaviors, spitting, swearing, bossing people around and wearing clothing that is inappropriate or offensive.

Sick jokes[]

It dose not include sick jokes like the group of 9 idiots that clamed on September 1st that they had a bomb on board after one of them shouted “Allahu Akbar” as a joke in the wake of 9/11. They were taken off the Ryanair flight Zaventem airport in Brussels A Ryanair spokesman said: “The crew of this flight from Brussels to Madrid requested police assistance after a number of passengers became disruptive prior to departure."

The truth about air rage

Contents

Overview[]

Laws[]

Qualifying behaviors[]

Sick jokes[]

See also[]

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