CNN CNN Newsroom With Fredricka Whitfield August 22, 2021 19:24:00
>> people need to understand that there are severe consequences here. >> reporter: flight crews have reported 3800 incidents of unruly passengers to the faa just this year. but the agency has initiated enforcement action in only 120 cases. now some in congress say the faa's power to punish is too limited and the fbi should pursue putting passengers in prison. >> the first time we take one of the jerks who is assaulting flight attendants and/or at attempting to take an aircraft down and they go away for a few years and send a massive fine, that will send a message to others who are thinking abo...