U.S. legislation backed by airlines and their labor unions was introduced in U.S. Congress last year to create a new no-fly list including people who were charged or fined for interfering with airline crews. The bills died without hearings in the Senate or House, but backers plan to re-introduce them later this month.
FILE — This booking photo provided by Massachusetts State Police on March 7, 2023, shows Francisco Severo Torres. Federal authorities say Torres tried to open an airliner's emergency door and then tried to stab a flight attendant on a flight from Los Angeles to Boston on March 5. The case has directed attention to passengers with mental health challenges.
Confrontations on flights have skyrocketed since the pandemic started, with some altercations captured and replayed endlessly on social media. The flight attack was part of a decadeslong pattern of Torres demonstrating signs of a mental illness. He spent time in mental health facilities, according to lawsuits since closed that he filed in 2021 and 2022 against two hospitals in Massachusetts. Torres says he argued in one of the lawsuits that he was misdiagnosed for a mental illness and, in the other, that he was discriminated against for being vegan.
"He is really a nonviolent offender," said Leominster Police Chief Aaron Kennedy, who is familiar with Torres from previous run-ins. "This guy was pretty mild." Legislation backed by airlines and their labor unions was introduced in Congress last year to create a new no-fly list including people who were charged or fined for interfering with airline crews. The bills died without hearings in the Senate or House, but backers plan to re-introduce them later this month.
The captain of an airline flight can decide not to fly with a particular passenger on board, although flight attendants say this usually happens when a passenger appears to be drunk.
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