A disruptive passenger was restrained with flexible handcuffs and duct-taped to a seat as his flight was diverted to make an emergency landing in Baltimore Thursday night, photos and video from other passengers showed.

Richard Olenick and Juan Mejia were more than halfway through the flight when a man two rows behind them in the first-class section started to become belligerent, Olenick said.

A flight attendant tried to control the situation but the man got increasingly agitated, started to hit the passenger next to him and then hit a woman who tried to intervene, Olenick said.

  • DevDave@piefed.social
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    8 hours ago

    It’s kind of like the glass vials with paper flowers in them that are sold at gas stations. Reality is they are one use crack pipes.

    Meanwhile duct tape is actually horrible for taping up the holes in ducting… Reality is it’s for restraining people.

    • SeeMarkFly@lemmy.ml
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      A product that FOUND a purpose. Usually the NEED is there first and THEN the solution is found.

      A bit backwards but OK.