American Airlines flight makes emergency landing after man tries to open exit door

[Mister44]

These would be fun gag gifts, but being milled from a bar of aluminum, basically, they are stupid expensive. That and if you drink hot stuff like coffee, metal containers are not the best. My pewter mug for the ren fair makes hot apple cider not as fun.

[jimp]

And if he gets a good lawyer, he will be suing both the airline and the attendant (and any involved passengers) for excessive force and for failing to “de-escalate” the situation and there should have been trained counselors on board for just such an emergency.

He could end up in jail but wealthy. Such are the times we live in.

[angusm]

So, do you take your coffee black … or camo?

[awfulhorrid]

@anon48584343

Placing these idiots in the insulation free cargo hold for the duration of the flight

Wait, why should they have the best seating? Let them have the sardine can seats and I’ll go ride in cargo (suitably dressed, of course.) I’m 1.93m tall. Riding in the cargo section of a C-141 is the only time I’ve ever had an actual comfortable seat on an airplane.

[matman]

On the one hand, thank you for the info and perspective. On the other hand,

[PPK]

That’s where my train of thought led… but slightly disappointed that they are more mugs than pots. Closest I found was this:

And was very disappointed at this site:

Coffee Makers

“Sorry, there are no products in this collection”

[ClutchLinkey]

@VeronicaConnor

It’s tempting to feel this way, especially reading boing boing which posts every single one of these stories that comes along.

But the thing to remember is that there are around 29,000 commercial passenger flights a day in the US, and these incidents happen, what, once a month or so?

Fair point. But to me, the escalation of asshats on planes is more like the final straw. Flying is already so unpleasant, this added (if minuscule) risk tips it over into the “not worth it if it can be avoided” category.
But avoiding lightning strike risks would mean giving up things I enjoy, like being outside.
And I can’t really do anything about meteor or asteroid strikes, so try not to worry much about them.

[ddmone]

Now we’re talking:

I’ve got pretty solid google-fu which is always searching for an outlet.

[ludd]

I suspect that tactical use of a coffee pot isn’t included in cabin crew training, but perhaps it should be.

Will that be one lump or two?

[jerwin]

Which are more common? Mass shootings? Or Idiots on commercial air transport? I supspect that just as we’ve learned to “live” with mass shootings, this sort of incident will become part of everyday life.

[anon94804983]

Wanna behave like a dickhead on a plane? Then fucking buy one. Leave the rest of us out of it.

[VeronicaConnor]

@ClutchLinkey

But avoiding lightning strike risks would mean giving up things I enjoy, like being outside.
And I can’t really do anything about meteor or asteroid strikes, so try not to worry much about them.

I mean, you do you, but giving up flying to see my family and this amazing world we live in because of a 1 in 870,000 chance of asshattery seems like a terrible price to pay to me.

[ClutchLinkey]

Giving up flying does not equal giving up travel.

And like I said, the asshats aren’t the only reason, they’re just the proverbial straw. There are plenty of reasons I want to seek other modes of travel: the discomfort, the carbon emissions, the extortionist airlines, asshats are at the back of the line, but they’re there.

[VeronicaConnor]

All fair points. I support your decision.

[knoxblox]

And you can throw disrupters off a train or bus at the earliest convenience. It would be nice sometimes if the vehicle were in motion (in the case of anit-maskers), but you can’t have everything.

[fuzzyfungus]

Do you know if airlines have some kind of super-tier status as a ‘public accommodation’ or equivalent that would prevent them from just unilaterally not selling tickets to this guy in the future regardless of what the DoJ or FAA do?

I’d assume that “people whose criminal misbehavior has forced at least one of our flights to make an emergency landing” are not a protected class; so unless there’s some specially enshrined duty-to-carry(maybe a provision of the big airline deregulation a few decades back; or a recognition of the importance of civil aviation for everyone who can’t take the bus transatlantic), my (admittedly naive) assumption would be that AA would be perfectly within their rights to just never accept his money again, and deny any attempts by a non-ticketed passenger to board; and that it wouldn’t be an antitrust problem for them to pass his details along to their colleagues at other carriers.

[gracchus]

I don’t know of any, because as you note “arsehole” is not a protected class. I suppose there could be a challenge from a passenger who was banned for disruptive behaviour based on mental illness or condition, but that’s about it. The borderline case will probably be a passenger who claims he shouldn’t be banned because he’s an alcoholic or drug addict and can’t help being disruptive, but I hope that the claim (and the shyster who takes on the client) will be laughed out of court.