{"id":4528,"date":"2023-11-01T10:19:43","date_gmt":"2023-11-01T10:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/used82.com\/?p=4528"},"modified":"2023-11-01T10:19:43","modified_gmt":"2023-11-01T10:19:43","slug":"flight-attendants-duct-tape-woman-to-seat-after-nightmare-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/used82.com\/?p=4528","title":{"rendered":"Flight Attendants Duct-Tape Woman To Seat After Nightmare Incident"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>While deboarding an American Airlines flight, one passenger discreetly filmed a woman who was duct-taped to her seat. Of course, the flight staff\u2019s reason for such an extreme measure is even more disturbing.<\/h3>\n<figure id=\"attachment_60097\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-60097\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-60097\" src=\"https:\/\/taphaps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/americanairlineswomantapeductairplane-640x411.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/taphaps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/americanairlineswomantapeductairplane-640x411.jpg 640w, https:\/\/taphaps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/americanairlineswomantapeductairplane-550x354.jpg 550w, https:\/\/taphaps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/americanairlineswomantapeductairplane.jpg 700w\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"411\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-60097\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">American Airlines explained why flight attendants were forced to duct-tape a passenger to her seat. (Photo Credit:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/photos\/transportation-system-airplane-3190760\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Pixabay<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>American Airlines passengers survived a terrifying ordeal after a woman\u2019s crazed antics disrupted a flight from Dallas-Fort Worth to Charlotte, NC, the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/07\/11\/video-shows-woman-duct-taped-to-seat-after-trying-to-open-airplane-door-on-american-airlines-flight\/\" rel=\"noopener\">New York Post<\/a>\u00a0reports. The flight had already been delayed for several hours before taking off at midnight. However, this was only the beginning of their troubles.<\/p>\n<p>With everything that can go wrong with a 50-ton titanium airbus hurdling through the sky several miles above the earth, passengers sabotaging the flight is the least of their worries. Unfortunately, airline security can only do so much when it comes to unruly and malicious travelers, especially at over 30,000 feet in the air.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_60095\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-60095\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-60095\" src=\"https:\/\/taphaps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/americanairlinesductwomantapeairplane-640x411.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/taphaps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/americanairlinesductwomantapeairplane-640x411.jpg 640w, https:\/\/taphaps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/americanairlinesductwomantapeairplane-550x354.jpg 550w, https:\/\/taphaps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/americanairlinesductwomantapeairplane.jpg 700w\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"411\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-60095\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A discreetly recorded video captured the chaos that ensued. (Photo Credit:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MMsrl5tZlAY\" rel=\"noopener\">Screenshot<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In a discreetly recorded video, passengers are shown filing past a woman with silver duct tape over her mouth, presumably around her wrists, and wrapped across her chest and back around the seat to hold her in place. Before she even appears on video, the woman can be heard screaming and pleading with passersby for help.<\/p>\n<p>Flight attendants calmly bid passengers farewell as they shuffle past the restrained woman, who repeatedly shouts \u201cyou\u201d and \u201cpeople\u201d at customers. The customer recording the video then captures EMTs standing next to a gurney at the exit of the plane.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe title=\"Video shows woman duct-taped to seat after trying to open airplane door | New York Post\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Rhm-Mzdyklc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-ratio=\"0.5625\" data-width=\"640\" data-height=\"360\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>The passenger who recorded the video explained that the lights came on around an hour into the flight \u201cand we see all flight attendants running up and down the aisles, frantically kind of like whispering to each other.\u201d She said crew members then locked the bathrooms and grabbed luggage from the overhead bins in a chaotic manner before the pilot came over the intercom to reveal that there was \u201ca bad situation in the plane right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThen we\u2019re gradually starting to hear more and more screaming, and we\u2019re like, \u2018Wait a minute,\u2019\u201d she noted.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The passenger says a flight attendant told her that a woman with an apparent mental issue \u201chand an outburst\u201d and became determined to get off the plane.\u00a0<strong>The woman allegedly \u201cwent up to the exits and started banging on the doors, saying \u2018You need to let me off this plane!&#8217;\u201d before biting a flight attendant<\/strong>. American Airlines confirmed that the woman \u201cattempted to open the forward boarding door\u201d and was restrained \u201cfor the safety and security\u201d of those on board.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI guess it took all five flight attendants to subdue her and like literally take her down so,\u201d she said, of the incident, which was first reported by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2021\/07\/10\/woman-duct-taped-american-airlines-flight-mental-health\/\" rel=\"noopener\">TMZ<\/a>. \u201cThey pretty much took her down, put her in the seat and duct taped her.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"attachment_60094\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-60094\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-60094 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/taphaps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/americanairlinesducttapewomanairplane-640x411.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/taphaps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/americanairlinesducttapewomanairplane-640x411.jpg 640w, https:\/\/taphaps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/americanairlinesducttapewomanairplane-550x354.jpg 550w, https:\/\/taphaps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/americanairlinesducttapewomanairplane.jpg 700w\" alt=\"American Airlines\" width=\"640\" height=\"411\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-60094\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The woman was duct-taped to her seat after allegedly trying to pry open an emergency exit door and biting a flight attendant. (Photo Credit:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MMsrl5tZlAY\" rel=\"noopener\">Screenshot<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Although there was panic that the woman may have been able to open an emergency exit door midflight, scientists say this is an impossibility for several reasons, including automatic locks and the immense air pressure outside the plane physically preventing this from happening.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cYou see that great big handle on the door \u2013 that\u2019s actually locked shut,\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.co.uk\/article\/plane-door-ba-flight-science\" rel=\"noopener\">says<\/a>\u00a0Steve Wright, an associate professor of aerospace engineering at the University of the West of England. \u201cWhen the plane touches down and is taxing to the gate, you\u2019ll hear the pilot say \u201cdoors to manual.\u201d It\u2019s only at that point where the pilot has handed off control, and where those doors are actually capable of being opened by someone standing near them.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>While American Airlines has received a backlash for the flight staff\u2019s handling of the situation, much of the response has been in defense of the attendants. Many pointed out that it is of the utmost importance that the flight crew\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/taphaps.com\/dana-pierre-airport-pole\/\">neutralize<\/a>\u00a0a threat by any means necessary in order to ensure the safety of the rest of those on board.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_60096\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-60096\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-60096 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/taphaps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/americanairlineswomanducttapeairplane-640x411.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/taphaps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/americanairlineswomanducttapeairplane-640x411.jpg 640w, https:\/\/taphaps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/americanairlineswomanducttapeairplane-550x354.jpg 550w, https:\/\/taphaps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/americanairlineswomanducttapeairplane.jpg 700w\" alt=\"American Airlines\" width=\"640\" height=\"411\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-60096\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The woman was treated at a hospital. (Photo Credit:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MMsrl5tZlAY\" rel=\"noopener\">Screenshot<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The woman was immediately taken to a local hospital for evaluation and was placed on American Airlines\u2019 \u201cinternal\u201d no-fly list as an investigation was conducted.<\/p>\n<p>Mental illness or not, the woman had to be\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/taphaps.com\/exorcist-style-meltdown-23c\/\">restrained<\/a> so that she couldn\u2019t further endanger herself and those around her. While duct tape isn\u2019t the best method of de-escalation, it certainly worked in this case.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-2\">\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-47509\" src=\"https:\/\/taphaps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Screen-Shot-2020-05-20-at-9.55.23-PM-640x50.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"50\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"swp_social_panel swp_horizontal_panel swp_flat_fresh  swp_default_full_color swp_individual_full_color swp_other_full_color scale-100  scale-\" data-min-width=\"1100\" data-float-color=\"#ffffff\" data-float=\"none\" data-float-mobile=\"none\" data-transition=\"slide\" data-post-id=\"60092\">\n<div class=\"nc_tweetContainer swp_share_button swp_twitter\" data-network=\"twitter\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While deboarding an American Airlines flight, one passenger discreetly filmed a woman who was duct-taped&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4529,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"views":45,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/used82.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/used82.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/used82.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/used82.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/used82.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/used82.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/used82.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/used82.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/used82.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/used82.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}