Flight attendants train in self-defense amid spike in unruly passengers

"Help!" yelled a flight attendant as she grabbed a knife-wielding man and wrestled to pin the knife against her hip."I need help!"The knife was made of rubber. The man was a fellow flight attendant. They struggled not in a life-or-death brawl inside a cramped airplane cabin, but instead practiced at a padded gymnasium with their federal air marshal instructors.

Amid the return to air travel this year, the number of unruly and violent passengers is spiking. More than 100 incidents were reported to the Federal Aviation Administration in the last week -- for a total of more than 3,600 so far this year. "You get on a plane full of people and some of them are not very happy and you just never know what's going to happen," said Carrie, a flight attendant who took the class as she returns to work after a pandemic-related leave of absence.

In one instance, the FAA said a passenger"tried to open the cockpit door, repeatedly refused to comply with crew members' instructions, and physically assaulted a flight attendant by striking him in the face and pushing him to the floor." After crewmembers restrained the passenger in plastic handcuffs, he"freed himself from one of the handcuffs and struck the flight attendant in the face a second time." The passenger was not named in the report.

Back at the training, Donna O'Neil was practicing an elbow strike that she could use if a violent passenger charges her in the aisle or galley from behind. She has 47 years of experience and said she is"pretty good at calming things down."

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Good for them!

Maybe if anyone's would stop trying to control people and infringe on their rights people wouldn't get angry and try to defend said rights. It really is time that WeThePeople put an end to this crap and remind the government and these big companies that we are more powerful.

Unbelievable, paying for the service doesn't give one's right to be rude & aggressive. Hope the punch 👊lands where it hurts.

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Just surprised it’s not been done by now

What a wretched state of affairs! 🙁

Lol. Good luck

Every time I think I can't be more embarrassed by the conduct of my fellow Americans...

Should be taught in School...

Sadly, the friendly skies are full of people who are either entitled, drunk or both

It will be suspended again once the first unruly passenger gets their ass kicked at 30k feet and decided to sue the airlines. In the right state the passenger will win also.

You know what’s really sad? That people are so fucking entitled that they think they can start a fight on an airplane, and that flight attendants have to train to fight off these asshats.

I think if flight attendants got to throw one unruly passenger off the plane at 30k feet, the rest would start behaving 🤷

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