Air rage incidents up 17% worldwide in 2015
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REPORTS of unruly passengers disrupting airline flights have soared almost 17 per cent worldwide in 2015, with incidents such as passengers being verbally abusive or refusing to obey cabin crew occurring on one out of every 1,205 flights, the international trade association for airlines said on Wednesday.
Some 10,854 plane rage incidents were reported to the International Air Transport Association (Iata) by airlines last year, up from 9,316 incidents in 2014, Iata said. This equates to one incident for every 1,205 flights, compared with one incident for every 1,282 flights in 2014.
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