Stupid. Plenty of “elderly” men are still capable of knocking the crap out of a woman. She’s lucky he didn’t punch her back.
He should have ignored her. Let the FA handle it. Now he has to appear in court to testify. Nothing is to be gained by baiting unhinged people that you can’t get away from.
Normally you’d have to pay ten or fifteen bucks to see that kind of action on an airplane.
We had one on the airport shuttle bus screaming at all the passengers to don their masks or get off the bus. We all complied but i must admit the thought did cross my mind to antagonize this vile beotch to physical violence so I could physically defend myself by knocking it into next week, but i wanted to see my grandkids more than a jail cell.
She was in incarnation of Karen. The man was very lucky.
I had a coworker, whose wife hit him, broke his glasses and gave him a bloody noise and cut lip. He grabbed her arms and held them so she could no longer hit him.
His wife called the police. They came as asked what had happened. The husband explained everything as explained above and showed them his broken glasses and his bloody face. The police then asked her if she hit her husband. She told the police that no she did not and could not explain how his glasses were broken or how his face got bloody.
The police then handcuffed and took the man to jail for assault. From their perspective he admitting to grabbing her arms, while she admitted to nothing. Therefore, he admitted to assaulting his wife from their perspective.
The point of this is that anytime a man and a woman get into a fight, the best course of action is for the man to leave or at least get distance and the police and courts are usually against him and his story.
This man was lucky in that it was well filmed and witnessed. In this day and age, even self defense can be considered criminal, just ask Kyle R. The justice system can work, but the costs of proving oneself innocent is often huge.