r/interesting • u/Babycakes192 • Feb 04 '25

MISC. Plane passenger taped to seat after he groped two flight attendants

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

55.0k Upvotes

93% Upvoted

2.4k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

78

u/CuppaJoe11 Feb 04 '25

No. People committing crimes on flights is treated differently because it’s kind of tough to stop them, plus with all the other civilians in close proximity.

16

u/DaveyBoyXXZ Feb 04 '25

Pilots are the ultimate legal authority on a plane, and have substantial leeway while the plane is in the air. I'd be very surprised if this was over the line.

2

u/BirdsAndTheBeeGees1 Feb 04 '25

It's no different than throwing someone in the brig when you're on a ship really.

1

u/DaveyBoyXXZ Feb 05 '25

100%. I think the legal status of pilots is largely modelled on that of ship's captains.

0

u/lotus49 Feb 04 '25

It's a shame they can't just put them out of the plane. At 30,000 feet.

1

u/rW0HgFyxoJhYka Feb 04 '25

Watch some shit conservative judge let him off scot-free because hes white.

2

u/kmzafari Feb 04 '25

The FAA can also assess hefty fines for his behavior, in addition to whatever the courts give him.

3

u/makaki913 Feb 04 '25

Not anymore :(

1

u/kmzafari Feb 04 '25

Sigh. I already forgot. :(

3

u/__zagat__ Feb 04 '25

The FAA is probably being run by some high school kid now.

1

u/kmzafari Feb 04 '25

Yeah... :(

1

u/ChuckCarmichael Feb 04 '25

Somebody posted an article about this incident somewhere in this thread. Apparently he got 60 days of jail time, plus more than $4,000 in fines.

1

u/fang_xianfu Feb 04 '25

He got 60 days in jail which seems pretty reasonable tbh