Bizarre Passenger
Behaviour:contributory causes
The media relishes in “passengers gone wild” accounts: the individuals who
strip down to nothing, angry smokers who lose the plot, fist fights involving men
and women, and irrational drunks. As a former flight attendant, Beth Blair has
encountered all of the above first hand, including a passenger who tried to
break down the cockpit door. The airlines and aviation authorities have one
phrase for this, “disruptive behaviour.”
nder UK law, disruptive manner (including interfering with Let’s take a look at the contributory
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behaviour on board an cabin crew’s duties). causes of in-flight disruption.
aircraft is classified as: So, what prompts an individual to
endangering the safety of cross the line between acceptable and Alcohol
an aircraft, being drunk in unacceptable behaviour? Alcohol, Alcohol has been a long-time instigator
an aircraft, smoking when mind altering substances, mental for uncontrollable behaviour on the
prohibited, disobeying the commander health and panic can contribute to ground, let alone in the air. The problem
of an aircraft and acting in a disruptive various types of shocking situations. with drinking at altitude is that one
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