Originally Posted by
elal767
I won't go into operational details, but suffice to say that with any airline on earth, including El Al for the matter of the fact, the procedure for an unruly passenger is very simple:
1. Knock out the bad guy
2. "store" him in his seat in such a way that he can't do any further harm
3. Get the plane on the ground as soon as possible and get rid of him.
I wonder - is this always the procedure? I was on a plane to EWR and we had an unruly passenger over the Atlantic. This happened twice. Once, we continued to EWR where we were met by the FBI and once we stopped in some Canadian airport (I presume the closest available). Neither was medical. They were both drunk and started shouting and stuff. I did (and still do) wonder how the pilots make their decision as in both cases, the passengers were already subdued.