For a banal reason: After an attack on the flight attendant - the passenger has to pay a fine of more than 20,000 euros

A woman from the United States was recently fined heavily.

The reason was verbal and physical attacks on the crew.

The reason for this, however, was banal.

In March of this year, a woman on an American Airlines flight drew attention to herself through aggressive behavior.

Now the penalty followed: the passenger had to pay 23,000 US dollars (approx. 20,200 euros) for her verbal and physical attacks.

Woman cursed and hit flight attendants - for a trivial reason

The reason for their aggressive behavior is very banal: According to the Federal Aviation Administration of the United States (FAA) "the woman berated the flight attendants after discovering that

." The cabin crew tried to respond to the concerns of the Travelers enter but she refused to change seats and instead yelled at the flight attendants. In addition, the woman refused

to adhere

to the

that applied on board. Even after she finally agreed to change seats, she continued to insult the flight attendants. "Then she hit a flight attendant on the right upper arm and tried to do it again," the FAA continues to report. Eventually became the passenger

.

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More and more flight passengers are showing aggressive behavior

This incident is just one of many this year: For example, the authorities report on a woman who screamed on the plane and beat both her son and husband before stealing cookies from another passenger.

Almost all such cases have been punished with fines of up to US $ 20,000.

Also interesting

In total, the FAA reported

this year

, as reported by CNN - more than

.

Ten passengers alone were fined almost a quarter of a million dollars for screaming, spitting, pushing, or punching on board commercial flights.