Originally Posted by alangore

I would like to see a requirement that all passenger ejections be reported in detail to the Department of Transportation. The report would include signed statements from all crew and pax involved in the incident, with attached copies of any stills or video captured by onlookers. DOT would have the authority to fine airlines and charge individual crew for ejections it deemed to be in bad faith. After all, at-fault passengers in incidents like this are already exposed to the same legal repercussions.

The cost of filing such reports, the bureaucracy involved, and the potential legal exposure, would drastically cut down on the "junk" ejections we keep hearing about, the ones that take place merely because some FA was having a bad day.