Qantas flight diverted to Tahiti after passenger bites attendant

Somewhere over the Pacific, the fragile social contract of shared flight was broken when a passenger turned violent against the crew member entrusted with his care. Flight QF21, bound from Melbourne to Dallas, was diverted to Papeete, Tahiti on Friday after a man bit a flight attendant mid-journey — a moment that transformed a routine long-haul crossing into a reminder of how much civil order depends on collective restraint. That the situation was contained not only by procedure but by the spontaneous intervention of fellow travelers speaks to something enduring in human nature: the instinct t