Passengers on an American Airlines flight last night suffered a delay of nearly eight hours, after the flight controls were broken due to the actions of a passenger. This is a truly strange story, as first reported by @SweeneyABC.
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Of course it had to be Miami. I'm little confused. Did the passenger run down to the aircraft before boarding commenced? If so, why wasn't the door to the jetbridge closed.
"I’m also not sure I follow the logic of them apparently trying to prevent the man from jumping out of the cockpit window?"
Because you dont want someone psychotic running on an active apron and runway where they can cause serious damage and threaten lives. Plus you dont know if he has any sort of weapon or bomb on him.
why do more than half (probably closer to 3/4) of these bizarre airplane incidents involve someone heading to/coming from MIA?
Says what?!! This is the 1st time something like that happens in that route… idiot comment
People misbehaving on flights, has been a thing forever. The odd incident here and there. Yesterday's AA incident is just a continuation of this era.
Babies being slapped by strangers, booze fueled antics, sex in J class, Madonna doing yoga in the aisle of VS J class. Businesswoman screaming at bratty kids on VS J class, Oscar-winning actress flashing her area on VS J class (wow, I have seen a lot on Virgin) haha. My favourite, was being stuck in a snowstorm at JFK airport. Bryan Adams softly played his guitar behind me, as he sang to his partner at 3 am while we waited for dei-icing and pushback.
Those were the norms 😉
Well, a noticeable uptick since early 2020, and full out weekly and multiple times a week since 2021.
I'm suuuuuuuure it's just a coincidence that the majority have to hold on to, otherwise, a very uncomfortable question comes up that no one wants to ask, and for sure, no one wants the answer to.
MIA to/from - it will continue. No point getting into it on here.
Go get informed. San Pedro Sula is one of worst places anyone can visit in Latam. No wonder why it is one of the most dangerous cities in the world. Crime and corruption go hand in hand there. BTW, I've been there a couple times for business and do not recommend it to anyone. As for Miami, if you do some research as someone mentioned here in the comments, the majority of crazy incidents with people on airplanes or airports have Miami as origin or destination. See a trend?
@Jordan - you need to write a “Things I’ve Seen” guest article one of these days. Sounds like it would be great to read.
Umm… which Oscar-winning actress, btw?
Wow! He was so looking forward to a vacation in Miami, but when he heard AOC was in town he just lost it cause his holiday was completely ruined before it even started!
It actually did, I just came back from Honduras and the flight to leave Miami was delayed by exactly 4 hours for who knows what reasons smh
I left Miami to visit San Pedro three weeks ago, it was also American Airlines, they made all type of excuses , at one point after two hours we got on the track, more delays and ended up returning because we burnt too much fuel sitting around so in total we ended up being delayed for about 4 hours and someone got kicked off because they became impatient and started arguing with the flight attendants 😐 . My dad says it could be the fact that Honduras is a 3rd world country and U.S doesn’t care too much for those flights. Honduras is a beautiful country with humble people and amazing food, yes it’s a 3rd world country so it has its dangers so be careful and do research and have a tour guide if possible.
Now that this has happened the airlines need to put in place new protocols so that no one other than the pilots can enter and be in the cockpit in the future.
The most cost effective, obvious measure is to 'secure the flight control doors with the pilots inside prior to people boarding and after landing until passengers have all deplaned.
Sad state of affairs but necessary.