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[Unruly passengers - resistance to requests by flight attendants]
J L Müller1, H L Hermann, C Cording
1Klinik und Poliklinik für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie der Universität Regensburg, Germany. Juergen.Mueller@bkr-regensburg.de
Psychiatrische Praxis
|September 5, 2001
Abstract:
Travelling by airplane is of increasing importance in modern society. Psychiatric disorders seldom cause incidents in aircrafts. Scandal sheets and serious newspapers as well report on disturbances of a flight by psychiatric patients. Up until now psychiatric research is not engaging in unruly flight passengers suffering from psychotic symptoms. We describe a passenger who became psychotic during an international flight. In addition, we provide an overview over publications dealing with unruly passengers due to psychosis and describe similar cases.