# Incident 20060809019289I: Boeing 737*, Cleveland, OH, August 9, 2006

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: August 9, 2006, 18:00 local time
- Place: Cleveland, OH
- Airport: Cleveland-Hopkins International
- Phase of flight: Normal Cruise
- Operating rules: Air carrier (Part 121)
- Operator: USAA
- Location: 41.4094° N, 81.8547° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs at CLEVELAND-HOPKINS INTL (CLE), within about a mile (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=41.4094&lon=-81.8547&mi=10
- Aircraft: UNKNOWN (not matched to a registry record)
- Reported make and model: BOEING 737*
- Fatal injuries: 0
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/20060809019289I

## Narrative

As the FAA filed it, in capitals; the FAA replaces private details with ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^.

(-23) CAPTAIN REPORTED THAT PASSENGER ^PRIVACY DATA OMI^ WAS REPORTED BY FLIGHT ATTENDANTS AS ACTING SUSPICIOUSLY IN FLIGHT. PASSENGER BROUGHT BEER ON BOARD (THIS PRIOR TO DATE OF LIQUID RESTRICTIONS ON FLIGHT) DRANK SOME AND THEN MADE REPEATED TRIPS TO THE LAVATORY INCLUDING ONE LENGTHY TRIP. PASSENGER LEFT A BIC LIGHTER ON HIS SEAT WHEN HE WENT TO THE LAV. FLIGHT ATTENDANT ALSO STATED TAMPER SEALS IN LAV WERE BROKEN. POLICE MET AIRCRAFT AND INTERVIEWED PASSENGER. PASSENGER STATED HE MADE FREQUENT TRIPS TO THE LAV AS HE HAD TO URINATE SEVERAL TIMES DUE TO LIQUID CONSUMPTION. HE SAID THE LONG TRIP IN THE BATHROOM WAS SO HE COULD SHAVE PRIOR TO THE END OF THE FLIGHT. PASSENGER WAS NOT INTOXICATED NOR DID POLICE NOTE THAT HE APPEARED TO BE UNDER THE INFLUENCE. CAPTAIN STATED THE LAV TAMPER SEALS SOMETIMES ARE BROKEN IN THAT MANNER FROM VIBRATION AND THERE WAS NO PROOF THAT PASSENGER WAS INVOLVED. PASSENGER WAS COOPERATIVE AND NON CONFRONTATIONAL WITH BOTH FLIGHT CREW AND POLICE. NO REPORT THAT HE INTERFERED WITH DUTIES OF ANY CREWMEMBER. HE WAS GIVEN VERBAL WARNING ABOUT ITEMS TO BE ALLOWED ON BOARD AND RELEASED WITHOUT FURTHER INCIDENT.

From the FAA Accident/Incident Data System. Reports are matched to registry aircraft by N-number and event date, checked against the reported make and model; the registry's history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model. For accidents, the NTSB's own investigation is the fuller record.

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