An unruly and intoxicated 22-year-old couldn’t restrain himself on a Frontier Airlines flight from Philadelphia to Miami so flight attendants did it for him. They duct taped him to his seat. During the flight on July 31, he “made inappropriate physical contact with a flight attendant and subsequently physically assaulted another flight attendant.” They frown on that.
Taped to the seat
Not only did they refuse to give him his complementary packet of peanuts and shut off his drink service, “the passenger needed to be restrained until the flight landed in Miami and law enforcement arrived.”
They duct taped him thoroughly while the other passengers cheered.
Maxwell Berry, a resident of Ohio, “is now facing three counts of battery after being taken into custody.” Female flight attendants face all sorts of indignities on a daily basis and some of the male ones do too.
They generally have ways of heading off trouble before things get out of hand. In this case what started off as a somewhat common incident escalated to mayhem. Anyone with similar ideas can expect to be just as securely taped into place.
As the jet soared south, Berry developed an in-flight crush with a female flight attendant and invited her to join the mile high club with him by brushing “an empty cup along” her bottom.
She politely declined and went on about her rounds, then, for attention, he spilled a drink on himself. After heading for the lavatory to wash up, he came back shirtless and ready for action. Crew made him grab another from his carry-on.
Getting too aggressive
While they tried to get him covered up he started getting frisky again, “groping the chests of female flight attendants before punching a male one in the face who had been called over to monitor him.”
That’s when Frontier staff decided to pull out their handy-dandy roll of emergency supplies and taped him like a mummy.
“He was starting to get aggressive and basically attacked the male flight attendant,” informs Alfredo Rivera who captured the viral image of Berry being duct-taped down. The airline issued a formal statement backing up the actions of their crew.
“We are supporting the needs of these team members and are working with law enforcement to fully support the prosecution of the passenger involved.”
All of the airline crews have had enough of the crap that passengers put them through. Covid and travel restrictions have made the lives of everyone in the travel industry miserable.
From now on you can forget about bringing your emotional support squirrel on the plane and anyone who even looks like they might disrupt the flight will be taped to any convenient surface until the plane lands and the law arrives.