Jet Blue flight attendant bails out of plane via slide after a row with a passenger.

Run_to_da_hills

An angry flight attendant fled his airliner via the emergency escape slide after a passenger whacked him over the head with overhead luggage and then refused to apologise.

Steven Slater, 39, who downed a beer from the galley first, was under arrest today accused of endangering the plane and trespassing after the incident at New York's JFK International airport.

He now has a facebook support page.

Fair play to him for letting some steam off.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/aug/10/jetblue-airways-flight-attendant-exit

SNAKEDOC

in fairness the reaction of the flight attendant was a bit unusual. if that was me i would have decked the passenger insuring i knocked him out put him in his seat and went on with my business remarking to the rest of my passengers with a stern look on my face. please stay in your seats until the aircraft has come to a complete stop and the captain has turned off the seatbelt sign thank you.:D

owenc

Tbh i feel sorry for them listening to annoying passengers if i was them i'd have smashed that persons head straight away lol!

Run_to_da_hills

I'm surprised that this hasn't happened to any of FR cabin crew with all the abuse they get from disatisfied pax..

Steyr

owenc wrote: »

Tbh i feel sorry for them listening to annoying passengers if i was them i'd have smashed that persons head straight away lol!

Absolutely, it was an overreaction on his part but i believe in treating people as you would like to be treated with respect and dignity. I was reading in a Rag today he already has a FB page on him and thousands of "well wishers" i wonder will JetBlue re-instate him, apparently he was highly regarded by them and the Airlines he has worked for in the past.

ian_m

He grabbed a beer on the way off aswell. Brilliant.

Run_to_da_hills

He is certainly getting the publicity.

http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKTRE67B59A20100812

Looks like he might not have difficulty with a follow up career.

http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory?id=11382552

Jet blue owe him one for all the media publicity that the are getting

lord lucan

Cookie_Monster

Now imagine the exact same story if his name had been Mohanned Al Hizari.

I some doubt criminal mischief would be the charge..

kopfan77

Jaysus, the passenger sounds like she was a right thunderin wench!! Id have pegged her out the door....without the slide!!

Plowman

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Steyr wrote: »

Absolutely, it was an overreaction on his part but i believe in treating people as you would like to be treated with respect and dignity. I was reading in a Rag today he already has a FB page on him and thousands of "well wishers" i wonder will JetBlue re-instate him, apparently he was highly regarded by them and the Airlines he has worked for in the past.

Doubt it, I would imagine when an airline is hiring cabin crew they are looking for people who can deal with difficult passengers without throwing a hissy fit (particularily if the hissy bit is the emergency slide being deployed )