Mask Argument Causes Delta Passenger To Be Removed From Flight At Logan Airport
A man was removed from a Delta plane at Logan Airport on Wednesday following a dispute over masks. The airline said Flight 670 was delayed due to late-arriving equipment, and then it was returned to the gate where a passenger was taken off the plane.
Massachusetts State Police said they did not have specifics of the incident, but said one person was removed after an argument over a mask. The passenger was booked onto a different flight, police said.
Delta said the flight arrived just under two hours after its scheduled arrival time in Salt Lake City.
“We apologize for any inconvenience the departure delay may have had for our customers,” a Delta spokesperson said.
In 2020, the rate of incidents doubled, and that trend is continuing in 2021. In an informal survey of IATA’s Cabin Operations Safety Technical Group, one member airline reported over 1,000 incidents of non-compliance in a single week. Another calculated a 55% increase in unruly passenger incidents based on the numbers carried. Incidents have even resulted in diversions, including a flight from Paris to Delhi.
In the United States, the Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) had more than 4,600 incident reports between January and early October 2021, of which 72% related to a refusal to comply with the federal mandate to wear a mask. Some 849 of these reports have been investigated versus a yearly average of 142 over the last decade.
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