American Airlines plane turns around mid-flight over mask row
An American Airlines plane bound for London from Miami has had to turn around because a passenger refused to wear a face mask, the airline has said.
American Airlines Flight AAL38 with 129 passengers on board returned to Miami where it was met by police, it said.She has been placed on a list of people barred from flying with American Airlines, pending further investigation, the airline said."American Airlines flight 38 with service from Miami (MIA) to London returned to MIA due to a disruptive customer refusing to comply with the federal mask requirement," the airline said."Everyone was shocked," one passenger told CBS station WFOR-TV after getting off the Wednesday flight."They wouldn't really say anything, and I don't believe they told the flight attendants anything either because they said all they could say was there was an extreme incident with a passenger and they had to turn around," she told the station.- 151 reports of unruly passengers.
Unruly Passenger Rate as of 1/9/22: 4.4 incidents per 10K flightshttps://t.co/ISiblzAzGi #FlySmart pic.twitter.com/UbF5UIqdcp.