Man was arrested after he tried to open the emergency door on the plane

Antics during the Year that Travel Revealed: Havoc, Misconduct, and Other Unusual Events at International Airports

After the world started traveling again, it came back to the antics that had been there before. Misconduct was a particular strong theme, with the nerves possibly being a result of a record year for airline cancelling flights, delays and lost luggage. Here are some of the highlights from the year travelers behaved badly.

A family of American tourists also caused havoc at Israel’s Ben Gurion airport in April after trying to transport an unexploded shell through security. People were shown panicking and running for cover in a video that was shared on social media.

And at least that poultry-clad firearm was discovered: An investigation was launched in June after an Atlanta passenger cleared security with a bag that may have contained a gun.

The live animals were found in two pieces of luggage at an airport in Thailand.

The intentions of two women arrested and charged with smuggled goods were not criminal on other occasions. A live dog was accidentally sent through the X-ray machine at an airport in Wisconsin in December, just weeks after a cat was found trapped inside a suitcase at New York’s JFK Airport. The suitcase’s owner wasn’t looking when it crept inside.

And at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport in Ohio in September, a human was the unexpected item hiding among the luggage. A man in the restricted area at the airport was arrested after climbing through the baggage carousel.

In January in Honduras, a man was reported to have damaged the inside of a cockpit in a Miami-bound American Airlines plane then tried to jump out of a window — all while the aircraft was still at the gate

The police statement said that Beckham was removed from an American Airlines flight in November at the Miami International Airport after refusing to comply with safety protocol.

Mike Tyson was the high-profile traveler involved in a physical altercation with another this year, but fisticuffs and mid-air high jinks were on the rise.

Unruly passengers continue to be an issue on flights around the country, adding to a host of travel disruptions in recent days ranging from bird strikes, aircraft striking each other on the ground, and episodes of severe turbulence.

This year started with a rowdy group of Canadians being stranded in Mexico after their maskless partying on a Cancun-bound flight got their return flight scrubbed and other airlines declined to fly them home.

In February, an American Airlines flight attendant used a coffee pot to hit a passenger on the head after he tried to open the plane’s exit door, according to the airline. And there were multiple cases of flights being diverted or turned around because of disruptive behavior — such as trying to bite a fellow passenger or assaulting cabin crew

An AirAsia flight in Malaysia was rerouted after a snake was found slithering through the light fixtures. And strange moans and groans were heard blasting out over the PA on an American Airlines flight to the bewilderment of passengers.

The man who walked out on to the plane left a lot of regret: The Amsterdam “stay away” campaign and the two refugee sisters’ adventures in Rome and Venice

A man was arrested at Chicago’s O’HIRE International Airport after he walked out on to the wing of a plane that was about to take off.

And the misadventure didn’t stop after planes landed. A passenger arriving in Australia from Bali, Indonesia, was fined $1,874 after two undeclared McMuffins and a ham croissant were found in their luggage.

Other modes of transport were also fined. The man in China was told to pay $478 for reclining his train seat because he smashed the laptop screen of the passenger behind him.

There was topless sunbathing on a war memorial, skinny-dipping in Venice canals and Rome’s Spanish Steps were damaged by scooters.

“Italy is peculiar in the wealth of tourism features the country has, and it’s unique in that people occupy these spaces in a way that doesn’t occur in many countries,” Tom Jenkins, CEO of the European Tourism Association (ETOA), told CNN Travel in October.

He pointed out that Venice and Rome are living cities in which people are forever rubbing alongside priceless cultural treasures. Said Jenkins, “There’s nowhere in France [the most visited country in the world] that’s as sensitive. And they’re getting 65 million international visitors a year, so the sheer volume of people going into these spaces means a small fraction behaving irresponsibly isn’t that surprising.”

The city of Amsterdam was flooded with more visitors as officials discouraged sex and drug tourists from visiting the Dutch capital. It’s been dubbed the “stay away” campaign

Not everyone was keen on this new tourism offering, with Anutin Charnvirakul, the country’s health minister, saying in August that weed-smoking visitors weren’t welcome

Of course, trouble-making tourists were as ever but a tiny portion of the number of people on the move this year and there were many heartwarming stories from 2022 as well.

Then as the year came to a close, there were the two refugee sisters who were reunited with the mystery woman who gave them $100 on a plane 23 years before, a gift that would change the young girls’ lives

The alleged stabbing motion of Torres and the flight attendants on a Los Angeles-Bose flight from Los Angeles to Boston

Soon after, Torres allegedly got out of his seat, mouthing something, before thrusting “towards one of the flight attendants in a stabbing motion with a broken metal spoon, hitting the flight attendant on the neck area three times,” the department said.

“According to court documents, the flight attendant then notified the captain that they believed Torres posed a threat to the aircraft and that the captain needed to land the aircraft as soon as possible,” the Justice Department said.

After checking out the plane, the flight crew saw an alarm that the door had been disarmed and, after inspecting the plane, a flight attendant found the door’s locking handle had been pushed out.

A flight attendant who saw Torres near the door went to talk to Torres about the door, according to the department, who asked if there were cameras showing he had tampered with the door.

A customer who became a security concern was restrained by the crew and passengers on the flight from Los Angeles to Boston.