Delta airlines serves man 11 drinks; sexual assault of mom and teen daughter follows.

[Anonymous]

I partake in a few beverages in the lounge before my flights, and I've never gotten kicked off a plane or assaulted other people. This is so insane

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Anonymous wrote:Do airlines not have a maximum? Say 2 drinks per flight or something?

And no one needs more than 2 drinks (or any drinks at all) on an overseas flight. If you do, you have a massive problem.

International Flights have the alcohol flowing the entire flight. I was stuck next to a man once who was already drunk before boarding the flight, and continued to drink every time the flight attendants came down the aisle offering to top passengers off with wine and other spirits. Luckily the guy cut himself off by passing out.

Interestingly I was on an international flight last fall that was significantly delayed. Apparently a couple of passengers whiled away the time drinking. We boarded the plane but then were delayed again while the airline deboarded the 2 drunk passengers and their bags, I assume for being too drunk or belligerent. So it does seem like airlines are taking a harder line on this recently.

My mother washed a xanax down with a mini bottle of vodka every time she flew. No airline ever seemed to care

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Anonymous wrote:Delta should have restrained the man and put him in one of the flight attendant seats. Don't they have a protocol for dealing with violent passengers?!?

my guess is that they were afraid he'd get belligerent with them if they stopped serving him alcohol. But, yea, they totally F*UP. They should be fired, man locked up, and victims given the $2mil.

my guess is that he was tipping them well so that they would keep the drinks coming

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Anonymous wrote:The pilots should have been alerted and the flight diverted to land as soon as possible. The mom and daughter should have been moved to jump seats and the flight attendants could have sat in mom and daughter’s seats during the landing.

It was a transatlantic flight.

Are you under the impression that the flight to Greece was over water the entire time? The “as soon as possible” doesn’t mean - water landing.

[Anonymous]

Yet the flight attendants are so quick to whine if someone so much as brushes against them accidentally.

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Anonymous wrote:I hope they get every dime of the $2M lawsuit they followed and he needs to be locked up.

Delta’s actions are despicable.

https://people.com/delta-passenger-sexually-assaulted-mom-and-teen-daughter-lawsuit-7567357

Nope. This man needs a criminal action. As does the flight attendant. I would have stood up and slugged him and demanded he be removed from her area. I absolutely would have made a scene, and that isn't anything I've ever had to do anywhere.

[Anonymous]

I would have stood up, announced loudly as to what was going on. I would be LOUD
There are passengers that would have taken him under control, absolutely. He should have been removed to a jump seat or even taped to chair until a landing could have happened.

[Anonymous]

If there was no place to isolate the passenger, the solution is to land the plane. Not force passengers to continue to be sexually assaulted. You land the damn plane and get the criminal off.

[Anonymous]

$2M is not enough. It should be $2M to all including the man who moved seats to sit between the a-hole and the mom

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would have stood up, announced loudly as to what was going on. I would be LOUD
There are passengers that would have taken him under control, absolutely. He should have been removed to a jump seat or even taped to chair until a landing could have happened.

I'm a quiet person. I would have stood near the bathrooms and absolutely refuse to go back to my seat next a belligerent drunk who assaulted me and my daughter. I don't get why the mom and daughter stayed there instead of raising hell.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If there was no place to isolate the passenger, the solution is to land the plane. Not force passengers to continue to be sexually assaulted. You land the damn plane and get the criminal off.

Where do you want it to land? The ocean?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:These "what could they have done" posts are wild. Weren't flight attendants duct taping people to their chairs last year for cutting up? Didn't a flight get *turned around* this week because a guy called a flight attendant a waitress? Like, when did these "treat us like air marshals" flight attendants become so helpless?

Or is it just when a woman and teenaged girl are the victims, it's not particularly compelling?j

+1. The fact that Delta let the guy go scot free after the flight without calling the police is criminal if this story is true. Wtf is going on with that airline? There was just a story last week about how they kept passengers on an unairconditoned plane in 115 degree Vegas heat for 4 hours until multiple passengers passed out/vomited/soiled themselves and then cancelled the flight.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I hope they get every dime of the $2M lawsuit they followed and he needs to be locked up.

Delta’s actions are despicable.

https://people.com/delta-passenger-sexually-assaulted-mom-and-teen-daughter-lawsuit-7567357

The flight attendants belong in jail.

Absolutely, they made so many errors including some criminal ones.

They should have stopped serving him long before that point. They should have found passengers to switch seats with both victims. And they should have alerted airport security at the destination that there was an alleged crime on board the aircraft and that the security and/or local police needed to be on-site before the plane landed to detain the accused, and take statements from the alleged victims. For them not to do the latter is criminal and all of the attendants should be charged with aiding and abetting sexual assault.

Who and how? It's wonderful that the other man volunteered, but you really think the the crew should have FORCED that upon another passenger?

There were lots of things they could have done. Cut off the drinks. Restrain him. Move him to a jump seat in the back of the plane. Ask for volunteers. People have been restrained for less.

I agree with the bolded. But your response doesn't address the question I asked that you quoted. How should the crew have "found passengers to switch" without asking/coercing them to be new potential victims?

Ladies and gentlemen, we have a young teen and her mom who are looking for a passenger(s) to swith seats with them. If you are willing to switch seats, please press your 'call attendant' light and a flight attendant will explain further".
And I think many flight attendants have coupons they can give people towards future flights, as a reward for the kind people who might take this seat. Preferably two huge lineback types.

"Oh hello ma'am. Thank you for pressing your call button. You see, there's a teen back there that has been assaulted verbally, physically, and sexually by the stranger sitting next to her. When her mother tried to intervene, the stranger assaulted her as well. Would you like to volunteer to sit next to this man and also be one of his potential victims?"

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I hope they get every dime of the $2M lawsuit they followed and he needs to be locked up.

Delta’s actions are despicable.

https://people.com/delta-passenger-sexually-assaulted-mom-and-teen-daughter-lawsuit-7567357

The flight attendants belong in jail.

Absolutely, they made so many errors including some criminal ones.

They should have stopped serving him long before that point. They should have found passengers to switch seats with both victims. And they should have alerted airport security at the destination that there was an alleged crime on board the aircraft and that the security and/or local police needed to be on-site before the plane landed to detain the accused, and take statements from the alleged victims. For them not to do the latter is criminal and all of the attendants should be charged with aiding and abetting sexual assault.

Who and how? It's wonderful that the other man volunteered, but you really think the the crew should have FORCED that upon another passenger?

There were lots of things they could have done. Cut off the drinks. Restrain him. Move him to a jump seat in the back of the plane. Ask for volunteers. People have been restrained for less.

I agree with the bolded. But your response doesn't address the question I asked that you quoted. How should the crew have "found passengers to switch" without asking/coercing them to be new potential victims?

Ladies and gentlemen, we have a young teen and her mom who are looking for a passenger(s) to swith seats with them. If you are willing to switch seats, please press your 'call attendant' light and a flight attendant will explain further".
And I think many flight attendants have coupons they can give people towards future flights, as a reward for the kind people who might take this seat. Preferably two huge lineback types.

"Oh hello ma'am. Thank you for pressing your call button. You see, there's a teen back there that has been assaulted verbally, physically, and sexually by the stranger sitting next to her. When her mother tried to intervene, the stranger assaulted her as well. Would you like to volunteer to sit next to this man and also be one of his potential victims?"

Seems like a good way to get a him beaten to death by fellow passengers

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Anonymous wrote:I hope they get every dime of the $2M lawsuit they followed and he needs to be locked up.

Delta’s actions are despicable.

https://people.com/delta-passenger-sexually-assaulted-mom-and-teen-daughter-lawsuit-7567357

The flight attendants belong in jail.

Absolutely, they made so many errors including some criminal ones.

They should have stopped serving him long before that point. They should have found passengers to switch seats with both victims. And they should have alerted airport security at the destination that there was an alleged crime on board the aircraft and that the security and/or local police needed to be on-site before the plane landed to detain the accused, and take statements from the alleged victims. For them not to do the latter is criminal and all of the attendants should be charged with aiding and abetting sexual assault.

Who and how? It's wonderful that the other man volunteered, but you really think the the crew should have FORCED that upon another passenger?

There were lots of things they could have done. Cut off the drinks. Restrain him. Move him to a jump seat in the back of the plane. Ask for volunteers. People have been restrained for less.

I agree with the bolded. But your response doesn't address the question I asked that you quoted. How should the crew have "found passengers to switch" without asking/coercing them to be new potential victims?

Ladies and gentlemen, we have a young teen and her mom who are looking for a passenger(s) to swith seats with them. If you are willing to switch seats, please press your 'call attendant' light and a flight attendant will explain further".
And I think many flight attendants have coupons they can give people towards future flights, as a reward for the kind people who might take this seat. Preferably two huge lineback types.

"Oh hello ma'am. Thank you for pressing your call button. You see, there's a teen back there that has been assaulted verbally, physically, and sexually by the stranger sitting next to her. When her mother tried to intervene, the stranger assaulted her as well. Would you like to volunteer to sit next to this man and also be one of his potential victims?"

Seems like a good way to get a him beaten to death by fellow passengers

I believe that was an episode of CSI