A belligerent US Airways passenger had to be escorted off the plane by sheriff's deputies after she responded with hostility to a flight attendant's repeated requests to stop talking on her phone.
An American Airlines flight from Los Angeles en route to JFK was forced to make an emergency landing in Kansas City after an unruly passenger was deemed a threat to the crew for refusing to stop singing Whitney Houston songs.
A cross-country flight isn't always pleasant, what with delays, turbulence, and seat-kicking to contend with. But the trip is, at the very least, shorter than 19 hours.