Airline passenger charged with assault after allegedly slapping crew members’s butt over missing drink

Travel Airline passenger charged with assault after allegedly slapping crew members’s butt over missing drink By Kyra Breslin Published June 11, 2026, 2:18 p.m. ET See more of our coverage in your search results. Add The New York Post on Google For many in-flight passengers, the biggest offense is kicking the seat in front of you or hogging the armrest. But for one unruly Delta passenger, who allegedly skipped during beverage service, the reaction was far more outrageous, prompting a diversion and landing him with a felony charge. Cody James Maluck, 32, was indicted by a federal grand jury in Atlanta on Monday on one count of interfering with flight crew members after the alleged May 9 incident aboard Delta Flight 800 from Fort Lauderdale to Los Angeles.

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