Unruly airplane passengers are straining the system for keeping peace in the sky
Michael Laris and Lori Aratani, The Washington Post
July 18, 2021
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FILE - In this Thursday, July 1, 2021 file photo, people walk through Salt Lake City International Airport in Salt Lake City.Rick Bowmer/AP
After consuming several beers and a couple of shots before takeoff, a miner started urinating near his seat on an Alaska Airlines flight, an FBI special agent recounted. Instructed to cover himself, he responded: I have to pee.
Two weeks later, a shirtless musician with a history of mental illness tried to fling open an exit door during a flight to Los Angeles as five people fought to stop him. He advised that he wanted to kill everyone, including himself, on the aircraft, another agent wrote.
Unruly airplane passengers disrupting peace in flights are increasing
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Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has quashed attempts to investigate how members of his bodyguard received shots of a Chinese-developed coronavirus vaccine in September and October, when no vaccine had been approved or officially procured in the country to date.
An angry Duterte this week ordered Brig. Gen. Jesus Durante III, head of the Presidential Security Group (PSG), and members of the elite bodyguard to “stay put in the barracks” and ignore a summons to appear before a planned Senate inquiry into the matter.
“To Congress, do not tinker with the PSG. Don’t force my hand. I am not keen to have Durante testify,” Duterte said in a nationally televised cabinet meeting that went late into the evening on Monday.