The Latest In Unruly Passenger News

There have been lots of unruly passengers in the news lately, including two incidents that prompted emergency landings of transatlantic flights Saturday.

An American Airlines 757 flying from Paris to Boston was diverted to Gander, Newfoundland, on Saturday after a French passenger attached a device consisting of some kind of putty and what looked like a GPS unit to the fuselage of the aircraft, Canadian Press reports. The passenger was arrested in Gander and the flight continued to Boston, where it arrived more than an hour and a half late.

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NY Times: Free Air Passengers

A New York Times editorial on Friday called for passage of the Air Passenger Bill of Rights (the Senate version) on the grounds that it is not cool to hold people hostage in a metal tube parked on the tarmac with an overflowing toilet, no food and screaming babies. I paraphrase, of course.