That story was crazy! Reminds me of the stories my ex-flight attendant friend used to tell me. Back in the early '70s, when American Airlines started their first nonstop flights to Puerto Rico, they got a lot of first-time flyers.
Women would get on the plane with their babies and put them in the overhead racks, which they thought were baby cribs or something!
People used to also tear off the wallpaper designs on the planes (remember when planes had wallpaper?), bring "coco loco" on the plane with them and get stinking drunk, look at porno mags on the plane, try to have sex in the bathrooms and in the seats, etc.