Re: Inflight violence
CharlieRU_at_aol.com
Mon, 14 Sep 1998 00:06:28 EDT
Mike,
Seems to me that the reduction of unruly passengers in a TEAM effort. It
begins with the Sky Cap and ends with an arrest. Each peson in the passenger
handling end of things should be trained in identifying peculiar behavior as
well as the obvious:drunk or incoherent. Once when flying as a passenger, I
witnessed the FA give more beers to five unruly young men in order to pacify
them until landing. These characters had totally disrupted the flight. I
spoke to the Captain when I deboarded. He was uninformed of the problem. I
once reported a passenger who boarded the same aircraft I was boarding that I
had seen fall ofof a bar stool earlier, he could not walk. They removed him.
My background in military airlift trained us to watch the people who are
boarding the airplane. Over the years you can spot them. Or at least ask
them why they have on a raincoat and the sun is out. The young trooper had an
AK47 he was trying to sneak home.
Charlie