Cost nothing and take up virtually no space. Every flight should have on hand for emergencies.
Posted on 02/07/2025 3:22:06 AM PST by Libloather
A crazed Frontier Airlines passenger was restrained by a group of fellow travelers with makeshift restraints after repeatedly punching the seat in front of him before then cracking a window with his foot.
The flyer became erratic 20 minutes into the trip from Denver to Houston Tuesday night.
The unidentified man allegedly began punching the seat in front of him when the woman sitting in the seat asked a flight attendant to change seats, passenger Victoria Clark told KHOU.
Once the frightened woman left the seat, the man allegedly kicked at the window and cracked the interior Plexiglass cover panel.
The damage to the window did not pose a threat to the safety of the plane as the flight continued its course to Houston’s Bush Intercontinental Airport.
The passengers sitting next to and in front of the man left their seats to escape the potential threat.
Clark – who was traveling with her three-year-old – recalled not seeing any of the flight crew nearby.
“The flight attendants, they just disappeared – they went to go ask for help but I don’t know where they went at the time,” Clark recalled from her view directly across the aisle.
“It’s just me and this man and I start freaking out, having a panic attack. Tears, I start screaming for help ‘somebody come help us, I’m scared,'” she said.
Chaotic video recorded by Clark captured the heroic passengers — including Clark’s fiancé, who was seated several rows away — stepping up to detain the man.
Six travelers used shoe laces and flex cuffs to secure the man, the outlet reported.
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Where did they get flex cuffs? Airlines keeping them on hand now?
In Iraq I had something I called “The 10% Rule”. 10% of civilians deployed into theater went nuts. It was common enough that it was just part of life there. I think it’s the media (news, movies, etc.) is filled with amoral, narratives rooted in lunacy.
Currently, my rule of thumb is that 40% of Americans are nuts.
Cost nothing and take up virtually no space. Every flight should have on hand for emergencies.
A number of people have ‘round the bend.
After 9-11 everytime I flew I carried several of the heavy duty AC duct flex ties in my laptop bag, just in case.
TSA never said a word. I flew over a million miles for work after 9-11, a lot of it international, and those flex ties were standard issue for me.
Just another reason not to fly anymore....
I can’t be the only one here who fondly remembers state mental hospitals and all the benefits they had for society.
The pop-up lunatic will not be charged. Now that’s crazy!
How long will they ban him from flying?
How long will they ban him from flying?
Looks like it’s time for Gorilla Glass to replace glass.
I don’t know if they would allow you to carry that.
Could be a democrat triggered by Nancy Mace “Tranny Tranny Tranny”
It should not be contingent on the other passengers to restrain some kook.
The flight attendants need to be trained to do it and any that don’t feel comfortable doing so don’t need to work for the airline.
Their's something about plane interiors that really steams crazy peoples' clams.
The flex cuffs are especially good at restraining violently insane passengers when applied tightly around the neck.
**Chaotic video recorded by Clark captured the heroic passengers — including Clark’s fiancé, who was seated several rows away — stepping up to detain the man.**
Frontier does it that way. Cheap(er) and no seat assignment. $25 if an clerk gets involved.
It’s actually something more mundane.
For years now I’ve had this theory that a certain percentage of people are susceptible to psychological breaks due to pressure changes, particularly in aircraft at altitude. I’ve associated the rarity of the type as analogous to the condition we know as vertigo. I believe some people are naturally susceptible (rarer) but that most who are susceptible are triggered by alcohol.
I have been personal witness to such an event and, by association (my travel/business partner), narrowly avoided the wrath of Las Vegas Transit Police (who did not take kindly to his actions either on the plane or on the ground). He was not ‘nuts’ and nor have the multitude of persons in similar events I’ve read about over the past few decades. However, there is frequently little-to-no press follow up of such events, as I suspect will be the case here.
After all these decades of air travel and the multitude of ridiculous federally funded studies over those decades, one would think someone might have studied this phenomenon years ago. There are statistics which support such a study pursuant to appropriate policy for airlines to contend with such events.
But no. “Shoelaces” and a nearly broken window in a pressurized aircraft. Commerical air travel and its ‘safety’ are far more tenuous than dealing with a real problem, and the second step after acknowledging the problem should be banning FWI/P (flying while impaired/passenger). IMHO.
smh
Shades of Raising Arizona!
Saw a lot of “toxic masculinity “ in there, restraining that maniac.
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