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✈️ Just like our moms always threatened to do, American Airlines yesterday turned around a London-bound plane about an hour into the flight to go back to Miami, its point of origin. The reason? One of the passengers refused to wear a mask, the airline said.

• Police officers met the flight in Miami but the female passenger was not arrested. She was put on American's internal no-fly list pending further investigation and banned from flying on the airline indefinitely.
• There were 129 passengers and 14 crew members on the plane. Pilots turned the Boeing 777 around a little less than an hour into the transatlantic flight, according to tracking service FlightAware.

+Zoom out: As we've previously covered, the pandemic has seen a rise in unruly flight incidents. A national survey of nearly 5,000 flight attendants found over 85% of respondents had dealt with unruly passengers as air travel picked up in the first half of 2021.

+In the know: The FAA has civil authority to propose fines up to $37,000 per violation for unruly passenger cases, but it doesn't have the authority for criminal prosecution.