Mysogyny at 20,000 Feet
Daughter of a captain here: I’ve heard some pretty interesting stories from my dad (he’s been in the field for almost 30 years).
One time my father had to make an emergency stop to have a passenger be escorted out of the plane. The man was rude to the crew and passengers around him.
He didn’t want to eat the food that was given to him and when the crew told him they didn’t have anything else for him he dumped the food on the floor. He was harassing female passengers and even started shouting when a female crew member told him to stop.
My dad had to come out of the cockpit and had to “arrest” him. (I live in the Netherlands and my father told me that when they’re in the air he has that kind of power, but as soon as the door of the plane opens that power is given over at the country they landed in. I’m not sure how to properly explain this.)
My father is a tough man but was a little hesitant to do so. The man was over 6 feet tall and pretty buff too.
He wasn’t happy to be told by my father that he had to leave the plane but as soon as he saw my father (probably because of my father was the first crew member that was a man, my dad assumed) he calmed down significantly and didn’t seem too bothered to have to leave the plane.
It almost looked like he didn’t want to be there in the first place. They made the stop and he left, in the hands of the authority that was waiting for him there. yoghurtijs