The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on Thursday said it has sent 37 of its more than 5,000 complaints of unruly passengers to the U.S. Department of Justice for potential criminal prosecution.
The FAA said it has seen a “disturbing increase” in incidents of airline passengers disrupting flights with threatening or violent behavior. As of Nov. 2, the agency has received a total of 5,033 reports from airlines of unruly passengers so far this year, 3,642 of which were related to masks.
