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good evening. the long security lines, the delays, the fees, the lack of legroom, it is perhaps not surprising incidents of air rage are on the rise these days. what is surprising is to see a full-on meltdown play out on videotape as just happened on a cross-country flight. tonight, abc's david wright takes us inside this incident and inside the minds of the crew members who increasingly have to deal with this kind of thing. >> reporter: freak-out at 40,000 feet. >> all of a sudden this guy who was sleeping just woke up out of nowhere and started flipping out. >> reporter: the passenger on this jet blue flight to las vegas this weekend so distraught -- he punched and kicked the seats of his neighbors as flight attendants struggled to restrain him. >> freaking out. >> i was a little nervous. i wasn't sure what the guy was

trying to actually do. >> we apologize for the inconvenience. >> reporter: it's become surprisingly common. according to the international air transport association, incidents of air rage are up dramatically. more than 8,000 incidents worldwide this past year. including physical assaults, drunkenness, and just rude behavior. >> don't be a hard-ass. >> reporter: youtube is full of examples. >> there's a bomb on the plane! >> reporter: flight attendants say they can often spot likely troublemakers well before takeoff. >> it's not hard to spot them. last night a guy walked on, hi how are you? i'm not happy! >> reporter: once you're up in the air in confined space with face it limited creature comforts, things can escalate fast. >> you're stuck. six hours in a flying tube at 35,000 feet. but when something escalates in flight, no one's coming. there's no police to call, there's no firemen to call. >> reporter: on this spring

break charter to mexico back in the '90s this male flight attendant apparently decided the best way to keep unruly passengers happy was to emcee the wet t-shirt contest they were holding on board. needless to say, he was soon out of a job. any small issue can get blown out of proportion when the air is thin. >> everybody's yelling at everybody. no one has empathy. >> reporter: it's gotten a bit better since the faa recently allowed us to keep our electronic pacifiers going from gate to gate. here in the u.s. officials say incidents of unruly passengers are down. alec baldwin's probably happy about that. he famously refused to stop playing words with friends on an american airlines flight. got thrown off. then went on "saturday night live" to jokingly ask for an apology. >> on behalf of everyone at american airlines issue an apology to mr. alec baldwin.

>> reporter: famous faces have to be just as careful as the rest of us. just ask naomi campbell. in 2008 her first class tirade on board a british airways flight became international news. ultimately landing her in court. >> i don't say that my behavior was correct. i guess i just took it too far, maybe. >> reporter: the supermodel pled guilty to assaulting two police officers. she agreed to pay a fine but avoided jail time. reported reported reportedly b.a. banned hare her for life. crew members can lose it too. captain clay osbon filmed ranting in the aisle on a flight from new york to las vegas. the copilot got an off-duty pilot to replace him in the cockpit, while a passenger who happened to be a former corrections officer restrained the ranting pilot. >> he kicked the door.

he kicked the door, it almost buckled. he said, it's me, let me in, this is where we take the plane down. >> reporter: the plane diverted to amarillo texas where the captain was sent for psychiatric evaluation and eventually charged with interfering with a flight crew. the other famous cabin crew incident was when flight attendant steven slater memorably quit his job over the loud speaker, grabbed a beer from the drinks cart, popped the emergency exit, and went down the inflatable slide. >> did you know at that point that you were ending your career as a flight attendant? >> oh, yes. >> this was a dramatic exit? >> it was a dramatic exit. >> reporter: this weekend, there were not one but two incidents on jet blue. in addition to the freak-out en route to vegas, there was another incident involving a mother and her 3-year-old daughter. an overzealous flight attendant refused to let the 3-year-old go to the bathroom during a long delay on the tarmac. the child ended up peeing on her seat. >> i didn't have any towels or napkins with me. no one offered to bring me anything to help clean it up.

i took the sweater off my body and soaked up the mess with my clothes. >> reporter: when the girl's mother got up to dry off her daughter, even though the fasten seat belt line was sit, the jet blue flight crew was less than sympathetic. >> we have a noncompliant passenger on this flight, we're bringing her back to the gate to security. >> reporter: an off-duty pilot and other passengers who witnessed the incident intervened on the woman's behalf. jet blue has now offered her an apology. there will be no apology forthcoming for the other jet blue incidents this weekend. but no criminal charges either. flight attendants handcuffed and subdued the unruly passenger on the new york to vegas flight, escorting him to the rear of the plane, away from other passengers. the captain then diverted the plane to detroit. >> as soon as we get the passenger off, we'll be right back on our way. >> reporter: where everyone had to wait two hours as police took the passenger into custody. authorities now say the cause of this mid-air meltdown was a medical issue.

the passenger, evaluated at a hospital, and later released. he's home now. authorities say the 62-year-old passenger won't be charged with a crime because the plane was never in jeopardy. though at 45,000 feet, it can be hard to tell. i'm david wright for "nightline" in los angeles. later on "nightline," we investigate the stunning success of "22 jump street." why this lowbrow bro-down just had a massive opening weekend. first what kind of man climbs mountains with no safety gear? we're with him for his latest death-defying gambit. can he make it? to help with my depression. but sometimes, i still struggled to get going, even get through the day. so i was honest with my doctor. i told him i'd been feeling stuck for a long time. he said that for some people, an antidepressant alone only helps so much and suggested we add abilify (aripiprazole). he said that by taking both, some people had symptom improvement as early as 1 to 2 weeks.

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many of us like a thrill now and again. maybe a roller coaster, a scary movie, perhaps driving slightly over the speed limit. none of that is in the same universe, however, as what you're about to see. this is a guy who climbs sheer rock faces with zero safety equipment. here's abc's neal karlinsky. >> reporter: look closely. that red speck stuck to the wall defying death is alex hunnel. no rope, no safety equipment, no turning back. it's hard not to be nervous, even terrified, looking straight down at him. he's an extreme free-climber, this time taking on mexico's el candero luminoso. the fact that his life is suspended by a few toes, his fingerties, and concentration galore is mind boggling.

>> you're sort of focused on what you're doing or our sort of empty and executing what you have to do. >> reporter: he's a pretty mellow guy for someone who's putting his life on the line all the time. >> here we are on the summit of moses. we just had a biblical experience. it's snowing. snowing right hard. the wrath of god rained down upon us briefly, epic snow storm. >> reporter: fear, danger, and death. the subjects everyone wants to know about drive him a bit nuts. >> all i want to, do climb without a rope, whatever, it looks crazy. wow, you're on the edge of a cliff. but like seeing a photo like that doesn't give any indication of how likely i am to fall off. know what i mean? it just shows if i did fall off it would be a disaster. truckers do the same thing. if you veer off the road, if they lose concentration a few seconds and veer off the highway at 80 miles an hour, they will

die. but do people consider that extremely risky? like, no. because the risk is quite small. >> you see it that way? you see the analogy to driving a truck down a highway? >> the thing is i see that all of life is an odds game. like everything you do has risk. so, you know. i mean, i choose my risks carefully. >> reporter: and he has. at 28, hanneld is easily regarded as perhaps the world's best mountain climber. he holds a number of speed records for climbing sheer faces in yosemite without ropes. but if you're going to see how he does it, you have to visit his office. the mountains. >> pull yourself up. yep, good, good. >> reporter: i did, and contell you, climbing even a little with alex is definitely a case of, it looks a lot easier than it really is. >> wow, that was horrible. >> you did good.

happy to be alive? >> yes, i'm happy to be alive. keeping it alive, barely. >> reporter: we tagged along with him and his good friend and fellow insanely talented climber seeder wright. >> i'm the king of a world! >> reporter: on a series of climbs. >> perfect. not too bad from here. good. >> oh, yeah. >> all right, summit one. not a bad view. >> yeah, good view, go. >> reporter: wright is no sidekick. he's an accomplished professional climber in his own right. but even he occasionally worries about alex. >> he's an extremely accomplished athlete. but at the same time there's things he can't account for. say a rock could break, a bird flies out of a crack or something. he's playing a game where the ultimate, you know, stake is to lose your life. >> reporter: hunneld insists he

gets too much attention for what's called free soloing, going without ropes, arguing that 90% of his climbs are with ropes. but it's hard to argue with the impression people get watching a person cling ropeless to a mountain, something that seems to impossible to most of us, one slip and it's all over. >> has your inner voice stopped you at certain times from going on? have you had that voice that says -- >> for sure, for sure. there's tons is of things i've gone solo and decided not to, climbed to the bottom of things and i'm not feeling it, climbs down and gone home. >> reporter: he's had moments frozen on a mountain, fear fighting along the toe hold. >> there's feeling sorry for yourself and like, i better pull it together because i'm standing on a blank face, you know. so i stood there for a minute being like, what have i done? then i finished the climb. >> reporter: being a professional mountain climber means being a bit of a nomad. his sponsors pay him to climb the world's most beautiful mountains year round.

he's even popped up in the occasional tv commercial for citibank. when ease in the u.s. he lives and travels out of his van. >> it's a nice home. i got everything i need in here. i mean, i do have basically everything i own in here. >> reporter: his life is at once extreme and extremely simple. with his endorsements, including northface, he makes a good living. but he says he spends virtually nothing on himself. >> i'm making a peanut butter and jelly tortilla wrap thing. >> reporter: his fears he says are no different from the rest of us down on solid ground. >> i used to be quite scared of like speaking in public, things like that. i've kind of gotten over it because of this kind of stuff. >> reporter: during our time together they were in the midst of a grueling 700-mile bike and climbing trip which included stops for haneld's charitable foundation, providing solar panels to native american homes without electricity. it's about as far from a 9 to 5

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in an era we all can easily wait to see movies at home it can be very tricky to get people in an actual theater, unless it's those special effects filled superhero movies best enjoyed on a big screen. which makes the massive success of "22 jump street," which features neither robots nor caped crusaders, truly remarkable. tonight we break down why. >> a grenade. >> you never know.

>> oh, why are you going to put it there? >> feels light. >> there's a grenade in my shorts! [ bleep ]! what about that? that's my [ bleep ]! >> shakespeare this is not. >> anger -- >> while it may not be high art it is highly profitable. "22 jump street," the sequel to "21 jump street," raked in nearly 60 million bucks according to estimates on its opening weekend. a live action, in other words nonanimated, comedy hasn't opened this strong since "the hangover part 2" back in 2011 o'clock pulled in more than $85 million. to find another comedy that pulled in north of 60 mil on opening weekend you have to go all the way back to 2003 and "bruce almighty." >> yo, brethren, what up with thee? >> what's the secret with "22 jump street"?

first of all, sequels tend to do well because audiences know what they're getting. experts say this is all about the stars. jonah hill and channing tatum, whose chemistry is palpable as they've discussed in interviews on good morning america. >> might as well be friends and not partners. >> honestly, when you're making a comedy, if you're friends and laughing, then that will spill over into the work. >> [ bleep ]. i love him, man. we pretty much just go and make fun of each other all day and they turn the cameras on. so it's really nice. >> give me a head start. >> while they're both big stars this true secret to the success of this film, according to the "hollywood reporter," is tatum. >> you look like you're about 8. >> channing tatum is the rare movie star that appeals almost equally to men and women. if you look at the exit polling a lot of women said they really came to see this movie because they love channing tatum.

>> i'm your worst nightmare. >> when you have a star that appeals to both men and women you get the date night crowd, you get the couples. >> why are you trying to kiss me? >> i'm [ bleep ] trying to kiss you! >> you get people to say to their spouse or girlfriend, hey, you want to go see this movie? yes. >> and in the end that is the rub. the filmmakers have managed to include enough action scenes and genital jokes to rope in the guys while attracting women by making a movie that is, at its core, about relationships. >> when you have an r-rated action comedy that is testing really well with women you're going to go in that direction for the sequel and make it more relationship driven we're brothers too. >> which is why no one should be surprised if there's a "23 jump street" in the not too distant future. thanks for watching "nightline" tonight. "world news now" is coming up soon. tune into "gma" first thing in the morning. as always we're online 24/7 at

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