WORST CASES OF CABIN FEVER

Here are the accounts of six recent incidents of air rage, from federal and local authorities:

Feb. 10: An Ohio man shocked the passengers and crew of a US Airways flight from Pittsburgh to Miami when he allegedly tried to unlatch a cabin door in midair.

Several crew members had to wrestle John Loftus, 41, to the floor and hold him there until the jet landed in Charlotte, N.C. He was arrested and hospitalized because of intoxication, officials reported.

Feb. 19: Hong Kong pop star Ronald Cheng’s allegedly wild behavior aboard an Eva Airlines flight from Los Angeles to Taiwan ended with the jet’s captain forced to hit him on the head with a flashlight.

Cheng was reportedly drunk, smoking and cursing at passengers when he started fighting with flight attendants, putting one in a headlock.

The jet landed in Anchorage, where Cheng was arrested.

March 16: During an Alaska Airlines flight from Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, to San Francisco, passenger Peter Bradley stripped off his shirt and tried to open a cabin door, shouting that he was going to kill everyone, authorities said.

Unable to open the door, the 6-foot-2, 250-pound man allegedly ran into the cockpit and lunged for the controls.

A co-pilot used a small ax to fight him off while the pilot pleaded for help from passengers, who eventually subdued Bradley.

March 21: After arguing with a flight attendant, an irate Bronx woman on a flight from Kennedy Airport to Phoenix ran into the cockpit of an America West jetliner and hit the co-pilot on the head, authorities said.

The jet was diverted to Albuquerque, where Denise Laverne Brown, 39, was arrested by FBI agents, who described her as “obviously under the influence of alcohol.”

May 17: A man accused of kissing a passenger against her will and assaulting attendants aboard a United Airlines flight from Newark to London forced the jet’s captain to land in Bangor, Maine, where he was arrested.

Driss Ghandi, 38, was traveling under a Moroccan passport. Passengers told FBI agents that he was drunk.

June 15: Joachim Frank of Germany, a passenger aboard a Delta Airlines flight from Jacksonville, Fla., to Cincinnati, made a mad dash down the aisle in an attempt to burst into the cockpit, authorities said.

Frank, 34, pushed past a flight attendant but was restrained by two passengers. He was arrested by the FBI after the jet was diverted to Knoxville, Tenn.

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