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A Flight Was Forced to Turn Around After a Passenger's Tantrum Over Their In-flight Meal
Travel and Leisure ^ | April 21, 2025 | Rachel Chang

Posted on 04/21/2025 5:44:15 PM PDT by xxqqzz

A recent flight to Italy was disrupted by a passenger who was upset about getting the wrong onboard meal. Before the plane turned back to the U.S., the man tried to charge into the cockpit. Passengers were stranded at their original airport for eight hours until their flight could take off again the next morning. Passengers on board a transatlantic American Airlines flight from New York City to Milan earlier this month were nearly at the the halfway mark of their eight-hour journey when they learned their plane was making a U-turn back to the U.S.

The reason: one disruptive passenger, whose tantrum was reportedly sparked over an in-flight meal order gone wrong, according to a CBS News report.

The flight departed on April 7 from John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK) at 7:07 p.m. local time, landing back at the same airport at 3:02 a.m., FlightAware data showed. Eventually the same flight number took off again on April 8 at 11:22 a.m., with the passengers arriving at Milan Malpensa Airport (MXP) at 12:12 a.m. local time.

A passenger told the network the debacle started because the unruly passenger didn't get their meal of choice, explaining that they requested the meal before the flight. But that wasn’t the only issue. “They also wanted to sit in an exit row,” they added. “They had a baby with them, so they told them they couldn't and apparently those two things are what pushed the person over the edge."

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To: dragnet2
Re: Post 36

That simp you describe was likely not the father of those two kids.

He's an ATM for the mother and her two kids.

41 posted on 04/21/2025 7:07:46 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: xxqqzz

Should be sued for the fuel costs.


42 posted on 04/21/2025 7:08:14 PM PDT by VTenigma (Conspiracy theory is the new "spoiler alert")
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To: crusty old prospector

I wonder if he is Jewish or black.

I heard a flight attendant say the worst passengers are on flights to Israel and India.


43 posted on 04/21/2025 7:14:26 PM PDT by xxqqzz
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To: SkyDancer

In addition to all the other documents need to fly, perhaps a mental health certificate should be included.
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Why cause another hassle to millions of travelers? There’s a much more sensible solution, namely legislation mandating jail sentences for any disruptive behavior that requires the flight crew to abandon the original flight plan. The world is fraught with all manner of abhorrent personal behavior because those guilty of it suffer no adverse consequences. Heavy fines and/or minimum one-year prison sentences and/or permanent enrollment on the “no fly” list should bring an end to most of this nonsense.


44 posted on 04/21/2025 7:21:20 PM PDT by fortes fortuna juvat (President Trump is America's long-awaited SUPREME Commander in Chief. Deus Hoc Vult!)
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To: xxqqzz

A taser gun would have worked wonders too.


45 posted on 04/21/2025 7:22:20 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: Gnome1949

Absolutely.

NO ONE with a baby can sit in the emergency exit row.

He should be charged for the cost of the flight to return as well as any inconveniences to the other passengers - food, hotel, necessities - every damn thing.


46 posted on 04/21/2025 7:22:27 PM PDT by Cowgirl of Justice
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To: xxqqzz

Or any Spirit flight.


47 posted on 04/21/2025 7:22:42 PM PDT by crusty old prospector
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To: Steely Tom

Not likely, the return flight was from a little less than the halfway point.


48 posted on 04/21/2025 7:22:44 PM PDT by Truth not Theories (I'm so thankful that God is in control. He's the one we can trust. )
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To: Allegra

Your posts always make me laugh! ;-)


49 posted on 04/21/2025 7:24:39 PM PDT by spel_grammer_an_punct_polise (Learn three chords and you, too, can be a Rock Star!)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Anyone else notice, that the writer of this article went out of his or her way, to avoid any gender pronouns for the individual causing the disturbance?
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Immediately! Hopefully someone on the flight will give the public additional information, perhaps even a photo of the perp!


50 posted on 04/21/2025 7:24:46 PM PDT by fortes fortuna juvat (President Trump is America's long-awaited SUPREME Commander in Chief. Deus Hoc Vult!)
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To: fortes fortuna juvat

Sorry, after all those incidents of people going wanka on flights you’d think another certification would be needed. I was just waxing funny. I’m glad I’m no longer flying commercial but now piloting bizjets where we know our clients.


51 posted on 04/21/2025 7:27:36 PM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Am Yisrael Chai ~)
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To: SkyDancer
From CBS news:

Passengers say they were relieved to be back on solid ground, but say they got no help from the airline.
"Back to New York at 3:30 in the morning. They offered us nothing," Scigliano said.
"I asked to use the American Airlines lounge to breastfeed and change. They said you can go in if you pay $79," Tomlinson said.

A police source said the man was released without criminal charges.

52 posted on 04/21/2025 7:37:16 PM PDT by af_vet_1981 ( The bus came by and I got on, That's when it all began.)
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To: xxqqzz

inflight meal?
you mean they got served peanuts instead of potato chips?

how Tragic!
/s


53 posted on 04/21/2025 7:41:30 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians aren't born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: xxqqzz

I hope at least one of the passengers who were delayed 16 hours, sues that whiny brat.


54 posted on 04/21/2025 8:11:03 PM PDT by simpson96
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To: xxqqzz
Just recently a Delta flight had to turn around to be cleaned after a 'medical issue' apparently involving a passenger having diarrhea, which apparently was made worse by a decompression issue.


55 posted on 04/21/2025 8:13:07 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Fai Mao

Lol!


56 posted on 04/21/2025 8:18:02 PM PDT by Silentgypsy (In my defense, I was left unsupervised.)
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To: SkyDancer
In addition to all the other documents needed to fly, perhaps a mental health certificate should be included.

,,, happily, everything went well at check in. If a mental health certificate in order to fly as a passenger ever becomes mandatory, the same should be required to run for public office.

57 posted on 04/21/2025 8:27:45 PM PDT by shaggy eel (A long way south of the border.)
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To: ealgeone
The writer left out a lot of details.....makes you wonder.

,,, I flew from Orly to Malpensa in August 2019. I've never waited anywhere so long for my luggage when I got off a flight. I'll go postal next time I land there. I'd love to get a headline like this LOL!!

58 posted on 04/21/2025 8:31:09 PM PDT by shaggy eel (A long way south of the border.)
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To: xxqqzz

Unfortunately the pilots and crew are limited in what they can do to restrain a passenger thus they just turn around per the airlines policy and the police take him away.

I have a better suggestion if the pilots were allowed to do it but they are not now. A discreet tazer to the neck and a suggestion to walk forward to the jump seat after zip ties. Place several diaper pads on the jump seat and tell him to sit there quietly and tied up. Make it plain you will Tazer him again if you get verbally abusive and really want to do this and then duct tape his mouth.

Land in Rome and tell the local authorities to take care of this.


59 posted on 04/21/2025 8:40:51 PM PDT by cpdiii (cane cutter, deckhand, oilfield roughneck, drilling fluid tech, geologist, pilot, pharmacist ,MAGA)
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To: cpdiii

Or the Russian solution, “9x19mm Parabellum,” the standard side arm of the Russian Military today. The majority of those Russian civilian pilots are ex-military, they know how to shoot bad guys.

How many airplane hijackings have read about every in Russia?


60 posted on 04/21/2025 8:56:41 PM PDT by cpdiii (cane cutter, deckhand, oilfield roughneck, drilling fluid tech, geologist, pilot, pharmacist ,MAGA)
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