American Airlines has long struggled with the question of in-flight dining, but one creative passenger on a Sunday flight from Charlotte, N.C., to Philadelphia decided to take matters — and apparently a fellow traveler — into his own hands. And teeth.
The pilot of the commercial flight was forced to radio ahead about an unruly passenger who had chosen to express his dissatisfaction with the flight experience by biting a fellow flyer. Because apparently, when you’re cruising at 30,000 feet with nowhere to go, some people just fully abandon the social contract.
Let’s pause and appreciate the logistics here. You are trapped in a metal tube hurtling through the sky at 500 miles per hour, surrounded by witnesses, with a pilot who literally has a direct radio line to people whose entire job is to arrest you upon landing — and you think NOW is the time to bite someone. The strategic thinking is, to put it generously, not great.
American Airlines, which has seen its fair share of mid-air mayhem over the years, confirmed the incident took place on the Charlotte-to-Philadelphia route. The pilot, doing exactly what pilots are trained to do in the event of passenger-on-passenger chomping, alerted authorities so the appropriate welcoming committee could be arranged at the gate.
The bitten passenger’s condition was not immediately reported, though we imagine their faith in assigned seating has been permanently shaken. The biter, meanwhile, presumably spent the remainder of the flight contemplating their choices while everyone around them very deliberately avoided eye contact.
The FAA continues to track unruly passenger incidents, which have included everything from fights to thrown objects to, now, actual biting. Aviation experts note that the Charlotte-to-Philadelphia flight is only about 90 minutes long — which means this individual could not even hold it together for the length of a single episode of a prestige drama.
Strong work, everyone.
*Source: UPI Odd News*
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