Data from the Federal Aviation Administration shows a significant increase in unruly passenger incidents at Tampa International Airport, with nearly 6,000 incidents in 2021 alone. Police at the airport have been dealing with these unruly passengers, many of whom have been captured on body cameras.
Cameras captured everything from a bloody fistfight with an officer, to a passenger being dragged down a jetway by the seat of his pants. With holiday travel on the horizon, the last things travelers want to deal with are delays – or passengers behaving badly at the airport. However, data from the Federal Aviation Administration shows the FAA has investigated more than 1,500 unruly passenger incidents this year alone.
That’s almost three times as high as when the FAA began tracking these numbers in 2017. Since then, the numbers have grown, peaking in 2021 during the pandemic, with nearly 6,000 incidents. Police at Tampa International Airport deal with their fair share of so-called unruly passengers, many of whom have been captured on body cameras purchased by the independent department last year. For an inside look at the problem at TPA, 10 Investigates requested all reports of disorderly conduct and battery on law enforcement and watched hours of poor passenger behavior
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