Unruly passengers - Interfering with the duty of the flight attendant

Travelling by airplane is of increasing importance in modern society. Psych iatric disorders seldom,cause incidents in aircrafts. Scandal sheets and se rious newspapers as well report on disturbances of a flight by psychiatric patients. Up until now psychiatric research is not engaging in unruly fligh t 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 psych osis and describe similar cases.