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Yet another air rage incident against an airline flight crew - at least the fourth in the last two-plus months - resulted in the arrest of a 32-year old woman.
Los Angeles International Airport Police say 32-year-old Lisa Piasecki of Irwin, North Carolina, was arrested after causing a physical confrontation with a flight attendant aboard a Delta Air Lines flight from Atlanta to L.A.
Police said the woman was allegedly intoxicated at the time.
Three Delta crew members said the woman became belligerent during flight and physically assaulted at least one flight attendant before being physically restrained to her seat less than an hour before landing at LAX.
Airport police and the FBI arrived at Terminal 6 at the airport, where police reported she was "kicking and screaming" and assaulted one of the officers. She was arrested and charged with suspicion of battery on a police officer and public drunkenness.
This is the at least the third such incident of air rage being directed at a flight attendant or crew member in less than three months. In late January, two flight attendants were punched by a man who, fellow passengers said, was screaming about assassins in the plane. The US Airways flight out of Charlotte had just begun to leave the gate when the incident occurred. It quickly returned to the gate and one of the flight attendants was removed by stretcher suffering from what was described as "serious injuries." The man was arrested and charged with assault.
In December, on an AirAsia flight en route from Bangkok, Thailand, to Nanjing, China, a female passenger - initially upset when she and her partner were not seated together - threw boiling water in the face of a female flight attendant. The pilot turned the plane around, landed back in Bangkok and the woman was arrested.
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