Originally Posted by worldiswide

as said above we were 2 rows behind one of the people of interest and saw or heard nothing out of the ordinary during the flight and although citizenship can certainly not be ascertained from appearanes, all three persons were male and caucasian. Did a quick Google search today and couldn't find any more details. We have friends in public safety in Chicago who tell us the calling of police by airlines has increased..not that there is more bad behavior on the part of passengers but a quick trigger by the airlines. Cops don't like to be involved unless there is something significant but we just didn't see anything to indicate that and the exit behavior was very orderly by the passengers, less so the FA who were racing through the aisles and all were gathered at the doorway. They could not have all been witnesses to said behavior but were clearly in it together to back each other up. On our flight back to Ord we talked to the FA about the incident and she was shocked but said there are a lot of issues with the veteran FA and separately with passengers with too much to drink .. One might think that putting a few hundred strangers in a metal tube for hours and plying them with free alcohol at high altitudes is a recipe for incidents .. May be we should be surprised there are not more