China News Service, November 4 (Central News Agency) reported that California police said that due to a dispute over whether to wear a mask, a Southwest Airlines pilot beat a flight attendant in the hotel where he was staying.
Since the new crown epidemic, the U.S. aviation industry has experienced frequent violence, disputes "from the sky to the ground", from passengers beating flight attendants to crew members beating each other.
According to reports, the San Jose police in California pointed out that on October 18, at a hotel in San Jose, a Southwest Airlines pilot clashed with another crew member over whether to wear a mask or not. The entire case was handed over to Santa Clara County prosecutors. Investigation by the official office.
A Southwest Airlines spokesperson said that the crew members had a disagreement in the overnight hotel, and the relevant employees had been asked to take leave during the investigation of the incident.
Since the epidemic, the U.S. aviation industry has frequently reported violent incidents with a record number.
The report pointed out that as of October, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has received 4941 cases of unruly aircraft passengers.
A 20-year-old man from Irvine, California, recently assaulted a flight attendant on an American Airlines flight from New York to Southern California, causing him to be seriously injured. The flight landed in Denver, Colorado.
In May, before landing on a Southwest Airlines flight from Sacramento to San Diego, a female California passenger was asked to wear a seat belt, put away a small table board, and put on a mask. Instead, she beat the flight attendant and pulled the flight attendant’s hair. It dropped 2 teeth and stitched 4 stitches under the eyes.
She was charged in September.