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07-07-2025
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Delta Air Lines flight with nearly 200 aboard diverted to RSW after battery catches fire
A routine flight from Atlanta to Fort Lauderdale with nearly 200 people on board diverted and made an emergency landing after airline officials say a personal battery caught fire. "Flight attendants worked quickly to extinguish a probable burning personal battery belonging to a customer while pilots followed procedures to safely divert the flight," Samantha Facteau, spokesperson for Delta Air Lines, wrote in an emailed statement. "We appreciate the quick work and actions by our people to follow their training, and we apologize to our customers for the delay in their travels." Facteau said Delta flight 1334 had 185 passengers and six crew members on board. RSW flights: Frontier announces launch of new nonstop flight out of RSW in Fort Myers. What to know The crew diverted to Fort Myers' RSW airport because of residual smoke from the extinguished personal device and declared an emergency out of an abundance of caution, Facteau said. Facteau explained that officials continued to evaluate the aircraft. Victoria Moreland, spokesperson for the Lee County Port Authority, said the flight landed in Fort Myers, 130 miles away from its destination, about 8:50 a.m. "There was no impact to flight operations at RSW," Moreland said in an emailed statement. Tomas Rodriguez is a Breaking/Live News Reporter for the Naples Daily News and The News-Press. You can reach Tomas at TRodriguez@ or 772-333-5501. Connect with him on Threads @tomasfrobeltran, Instagram @tomasfrobeltran, Facebook @tomasrodrigueznews and Bluesky @tomasfrodriguez. This article originally appeared on Fort Myers News-Press: Delta Air Lines flight makes emergency landing at RSW
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19-03-2025
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Man restrained on board Delta flight after staff say he was biting and hitting passengers
A man was taken to a hospital for a psychological evaluation after he allegedly bit and hit passengers on board a Delta Airlines flight. Shortly after Delta Flight 501 from Atlanta landed at Los Angeles International Airport on Monday afternoon, staff reported a man was restrained on board for biting a passenger and hitting others, CNN reports. The Los Angeles Fire Department responded, taking the man to a hospital for a psychological evaluation before returning to treat the passenger he injured. The man, whose current state is unknown, could face both civil and criminal penalties. The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating. 'Delta has zero tolerance for unruly behavior and will work with law enforcement authorities,' Delta spokesperson Samantha Facteau said in a statement. Delta has since been in touch with customers to offer support. The Independent has contacted the Los Angeles Fire Department for more information. There have been 311 reports of unruly passengers so far this year, according to the FAA. Unruly passenger reports hit a record high of nearly 6,000 in 2021, growing 492 percent from the previous year as airline travel bounced back during the COVID-19 pandemic. More than 4,000 of these incidents were related to masking, Reuters reported. Those figures leveled out over the next three years, with 2,455 reports in 2022 and just over 2,000 reports in both 2023 and 2024. But unruly passengers are still more common than they were before the pandemic, with the FAA reporting 1,009 unruly passengers in 2019 and 1,161 in 2018. 'The rate of unruly passenger incidents steadily dropped by over 80 percent since record highs in early 2021, but recent increases show there remains more work to do,' the FAA said in a statement on their website. Unruly passengers can face jail time, fines up to $37,000 and travel restrictions. Criminal charges are also possible. 'The FAA has civil authority, allowing it to impose fines,' the FAA states. 'It does not have criminal prosecutorial authority, although passengers who engage in unruly behavior can still be prosecuted on criminal charges.'
