The passenger was seen lying on his stomach with his hands behind his back bound as well as his ankles with duct tape, the report said.

So for future reference, especially for those of you who do such things recreationally, facedown restraint is very risky from a respiratory standpoint, especially with the limbs back in the hogtie position, that is how the cops kill people (I would say accidentally except they have enough education on the topic to preclude that). But ultimately I'm mostly just glad they kept him from opening the plane. That's the obvious first priority there. Damn.

Toothbrush

Headphones

Neck pillow

DUCT TAPE.

Because of the way this headline is phrased, I am forced to assume that "who allegedly tried to open door during American Airlines flight" is a clause, and that the passengers duct taped this man to the state of Texas.

They duct taped him TO TEXAS?!?

I understand the need to neutralize the threat but duct taping someone to Texas is just cruel

including Doug McCright and Charlie Boris

Should I know these guys?

Assuming it wasn't a Boeing, he wouldn't have been able to get the door open, so at least they weren't in any real danger.

There was a CSI episode with a situation similar to this. Of course, since it's CSI, the way that turned out was the mentally ill person was killed (and the episode was about the passengers/crew subtly covering for each other).

Nice case of how in real life, people avoid harm when possible, and in fiction, people are all secretly ruthless savages out for each other's blood.

Oh; I should say, in fiction, and for police, who similarly live in fiction-land.

Why is duct tape easily available on the airplanes then normal rope to tie? Are the airplanes required to use the duct tape in an emergency case?

Something tells me he was not the captain. But I'll wait for all the facts to come out before I rush to judgement.

Duct tape fixes everything