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What to Do If In-Flight Sexual Assault Happens to You
27.07.2023 - 18:14 / smartertravel.com
A lot of terrible things can happen on a plane: a runway crash, mid-flight mechanical issues, a medical emergency. An anxious mind might run through them before take off. But how often do you worry about a fellow passenger committing sexual assault?
In-flight sexual assault is a problem that remained largely under the radar until the #MeToo era, when passengers began to question airlines’ handling (or lack thereof) of sexual assault on their planes. Case in point: The Seattle Times recently reported that Delta is currently being sued by a passenger who says the airline filed no formal report after she was sexually assaulted on one of its flights.
A recent survey from the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA (AFA), a union of 50,000 flight attendants representing 20 airlines, suggests that in-flight sexual assault allegations are reported to law enforcement less than half of the time. The AFA survey also found that one in five flight attendants has encountered a passenger-on-passenger in-flight sexual assault.
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Delta and other airlines declined my requests for comment, so I turned to the AFA to find out what passengers should do in the event of an in-flight sexual assault, and what—if anything—airlines are doing to change their treatment of victims. AFA president and spokesperson Taylor Garland told me two airlines are championing in-flight sexual assault reform, and shared some key to-dos.
Know the BasicsOne of the main problems with in-flight sexual assault is that airlines often respond to them the same way they would to an unruly passenger, despite the fact that sex-related crimes are more sensitive and serious.
“All flight attendants go through de-escalation training and unruly passenger training. We are also trained to respond to assault,” Garland says. But, she notes, “there is no specific training for flight attendants on how to handle sexual assault.”
Related:The 5 Rules of Reclining Your Airplane SeatStill, some airlines are better about handling the issue. “Alaska Airlines and United Airlines have been working to update policies and training to address sexual assault,” Garland says. “They’re leading the industry on this and we’re not aware of any other airline doing the same.”
The FAA doesn’t require any sexual-assault-specific training for flight attendants. Further complicating the reporting process, crimes committed on an airplane fall under federal jurisdiction (the FBI if you’re in the United States) but local law
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