American passengers wont just sit there and we all know why

On August 13, 2025, a man aboard a Breeze Airways flight to Los Angeles allegedly started shouting racial slurs and struck a flight attendant.Passengers restrained him.

When he broke out, the other passengers physically held him down until the plane diverted and law enforcement took him into custody.Nobody waited for anyone to tell them what to do.Last week, a 67-year-old Arizona realtor named Arthur Lundeen allegedly started screaming racial slurs and anti-gay insults at 30,000 feet last week on American Airlines flight 618 from Dallas to Newark, passengers sprang into action.Morning Report delivers the latest news, videos, photos and more.

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Never miss a story.A former law enforcement officer two rows in front of Lundeen stood up, moved to the next row back, and helped the crew duct-tape him to his chair and zip-tie his hands until the plane could divert to Baltimore and hand him to the FBI.There’s a pattern here.

A new one.The Federal Aviation Administration logged 1,163 unruly passenger reports through August of this year alone, on pace for 1,745 for the calendar year, with penalties running up to $43,658 per violation.The FAA calls this an enforcement problem.But there has also been a cultural shift.

The American traveling public has decided that a man screaming slurs at strangers is not going to spend another hour ruining a flight while the crew waits for a diversion.He is going to be restrained.

He is going to be duct-taped to his seat if that is what it takes.And he is going to be handed to the FBI on the tarmac.The Lundeen incident was not about terrorism.

It was about a drunk bigot.But the two men getting out of their seats without being asked, the crew reaching for the zip ties, the rest of the cabin backing them up on video — all of it is the same reflex that took Flight 93 out of the hands of...