Flight Attendents Air Rage

[innit Geezer]

We've all had bad days, well, certainly I have, but thankfully not as bad as this in at least a few decades.



NYT:

A JetBlue flight attendant apparently upset with an uncooperative passenger on a just-landed flight unleashed a profanity-laden tirade on the public-address system, pulled the emergency-exit chute, slid off the plane and fled Kennedy International Airport, a law enforcement official said.

cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/09/flight-attendant-activates-exit-chute-after-dispute-at-j-f-k-then-flees/?hp

[Merlot Joe]

Looks like he wanted off that plane ASAP and he did it.

Joe

[Ardbeg... innit]

and apparently he grabbed a beer before he deployed the chute too. Absolutely the best "Fuck you I quit" in recent history.

... a female passenger had been verbally and physically abusive to Mr. Slater when he intervened as she squabbled with a male passenger over access to the overhead luggage compartment.

“The woman initially at Pittsburgh slammed the overhead into his head,” Mr. Turman said of Mr. Slater.

A passenger on the flight, Greg Kanczes, said that he saw a large, fresh-looking gash on Mr. Slater’s forehead at the beginning of the flight. “It was about an inch-and-half long, and it was a big red mark or cut,” Mr. Kanczes said by phone Tuesday. “There was no bandage.”

In previous accounts offered by the authorities, Mr. Slater’s main altercation with the passenger had come at the end of the flight, not the beginning, with the passenger pulling a bag out of the overhead compartment that struck Mr. Slater in the head.

Meanwhile, in an interview on the celebrity-news Web site TMZ, a woman who says she was married to Mr. Slater in the 1990s and remains friendly with him said that she talked to Mr. Slater’s ailing mother after his arrest Monday. The woman, Cynthia Susanne, said that Mr. Slater’s mother told her that Mr. Slater said that the passenger had “maliciously” pulled the compartment door down to hit Mr. Slater in the head, but that the altercation had occurred at the end of the flight.

The version offered by Mr. Turman indicates a longer-simmering animus between the two parties.

Mr. Turman said that on the ground at Kennedy, the tension flared up again. When the female passenger tried to get her bag out of the overhead before the crew had given permission and Mr. Slater instructed her to remain seated, Mr. Turman said, the woman “was outraged and cursing” at Mr. Slater, who “wanted to avoid a conflict.”

[Gary as guest]

NPR covered the story today and interveiwied a flight attendant who is out on leave for one year due to stress from passengers.

www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2010/08/10/129105185/jetblue-flight-attendant?ps=rs

[Tex]

This has to be the best flight attendent story I have ever heard. The runner up was an argument between a flight attendent and a drunk that ended with the passenger taking a crap on top of the beverage cart (on a flight from Buenos Aires to NYC)

[Exildo Wonsetler Briggs III]

Kudos to this guy. FA take WAY too much crap from passengers and have to smile in return. More than once I've wanted to slam-dunk some asshole passenger who was being rude.

No doubt this fellow was thinking of leaving this job. Sure as HELL he went out in a blaze of glory!!

............Bob

[♥ COVID-19♥]

This has apparently become an international news story.

Note not only the subtitles, but also the animated re-enactment.

[Chicago Jake]

I like how both the voice-over and the subtitles were in Chinese!