Fistfight on United Airlines Flight to Ghana Leads to F-16 Escort

Unless some major design change has taken place recently on 767s, fuel cannot be dumped from this aircraft. It is/was perfectly capable of landing "heavy". Check the facts with Boeing.

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Anyone who reclines their seat to any degree on a crowded airplane is an ignorant person to be sure.
The airlines should NOT be so innocent on this issue. Since when should an airline passenger have to endure someone else's greasy head some four to six inches from their nose on a long flight?

The airlines are at fault here on three counts - one for moving the seats so close together, and secondly, for allowing the seats to recline so much...and thirdly, probably for taking a so called "neutral" stance when someone complains about a seat in their face.

I refuse to recline my seat and do that to someone...and others should follow suit. It is very inconsiderate.

Yes, there should have been charges laid in this case...against United Airlines.

are you kidding? So where was the Air force on 9/11? Give me a break.

In the 1960's and most of the pre-2000 era, flying was a pleasure, most people were clean, neatly dressed and polite. The airlines could not do enough for the passengers, meals, drinks, snacks, re-routing flights when necessary, no body cavity searches. Now, I don't fly unless it is absolutely necessary, I would rather drive 5 days across country than get on a commercial airplane. A large percentage of airline passengers look, smell and act as if they were bred in and just crawled out of a swamp. The airlines generally treat passengers like cattle. I will give credit to the cabin attendants, a lot of them try to do a good job in spite of obnoxious passengers.

Would be curious as to the official position of the airlines on this if the complaint of reclining seat went to the stewardess. Would they tell front guy to raise seat or rear guy to shut up?

Better yet....why don't airlines just reconfigurethe seating arrangements and make more room between the seats???

Being a septuagenarian and an occasional flyer I have had a chance to observe the behavior of others through the years. We have become an angrier society worldwide and especially here in the U.S. When I am out in public I keep a low profile. As to this incident I have flown to Ghana four times and will make my fifth trip come this fall. These trips have been with British Airways, KLM, and Lufthansa with Lufthansa being my airline of choice. Seating on any plane, in coach, is tight. This necessitates patience on the part of the passengers. My procedure is to book early, get an aisle seat, respect the passenger sitting next to me, and pray daily I sit next to someone with common sense. It's a hell of a life and no one gets out alive.

I think that they should tell people not to use the recline portion of the seat. That seat goes right into the person seated in the next row. As it is , the passenger has very limited space. When I fly, I never recline my seat for that reason.

There was a fight on a flight in the States just last month. Evidently, someone accidently took the handbag containing Alex Rodriguez' eyeliner and mascara, along with his lipstick case. When he discovered it was missing, he threw a hissyfit, and tried beating up the guy sitting across the aisle. Fortunately, none of A-Rods "punches" were strong enough to awaken the soundly sleeping passenger, and A-Rod was subdued by a strong-armed stewardess. I ask you, when will it EVER end?