Japan Tackles Flight Rights Of Mentally Ill Passengers

Ever since a schizophrenic passenger overpowered the cockpit crew of an All Nippon Airways 747-400 in 1999 and killed its veteran pilot, Japan's commercial air transport industry has debated the terms under which such passengers should be denied boarding. The industry's initial answer was to...

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