An American Airlines flight (AAL38) bound for London was forced to return to Miami after a dispute with a passenger who refused to wear the mask on the device.
As detailed by ‘USA Today’, the woman, in her 40s, refused to wear the mask mid-flight. It was then that the Boeing 777, with 129 passengers and 14 crew members, turned around when he had barely traveled 1,000 kilometers of the more than 7,000 he had to travel, according to the flight tracking.
In a statement, the airline speaks of a “disruptive customer who refused to comply with the federal requirement to wear a mask“. The woman was not arrested, according to ‘USA Today’, but she has been vetoed by American Airlines, which is still investigating the incident.
According to local information, the flight was canceled and the other passengers were able to travel to London on later flights. This incident left no injuries.
According to the US Federal Aviation Administration, there have been 151 incidents involving passengers so far this year, of which 92 have had to do with the use of the mask. In 2021, they received nearly 6,000 reports of misconduct, of which 4,290 were related to the mask.
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