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Member Section => Down Range Cafe => Topic started by: twyacht on August 09, 2010, 06:42:38 PM
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Thought you had a bad day?
http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local-beat/Airline-Steward-at-JFK-Pulls-Emergency-Chute-Flies-Coop-100286494.html
Airline Steward at JFK Pulls Emergency Chute, Flies Coop
By JONATHAN DIENST, PEI-SZE CHENG and HASANI GITTENS
Updated 7:25 PM EDT, Mon, Aug 9, 2010
A flight attendant ran out of patience on a plane that just landed at JFK on Monday afternoon, so he allegedly cursed a blue streak over the p.a. system, grabbed some beers, pulled the emergency chute, slid down and ran from the plane, sources said.
Jet Blue employee Steven Slater was working on Flight 1052 from Pittsburgh to Kennedy Airport, which landed at around 12 p.m., when he got into a verbal altercation with a passenger, law-enforcement sources said.
Following a heated exchange, the flight attendant told off the entire plane on the public address system, activated an emergency chute near the back of the plane and jumped down the evacuation slide and ran for it.
The argument began when one of the 100 passengers on the flight, got up early to get her luggage from an overhead compartment, according to sources. Slater told the passenger to sit back down -- but, as he approached, the woman continued to pull her belongings down and struck him in the head with her bag, authorities said.
Slater asked for an apology but the woman cursed him out, saying in effect "go f--k yourself" and calling him a "mo-fo," according to law enforcement sources who are still sorting out the specifics. Then Slater got on the flight's announcement system and allegedly cursed out everyone on the plane -- especially the person who mouthed off to him, according to law enforcement sources.
When his tirade was through, he then took a some beers from the galley and pulled the emergency chute and slid off the Embraer 190 plane. According to police sources, he threw his luggage down first and said something to the effect of "there goes 28 years," before he took the plunge.
After getting down the slide, Slater took off into the terminal, law-enforcement sources said.
Slater was later arrested at his home in Belle Harbor, Queens by Port Authority officials. He was found by police in a sexual embrace with his partner, sources said.
The steward was "having a bad day," sources said.
He is being charged with 2nd-and 4th-degree criminal mischief, 1st- and 2nd-degree reckless endangerment and criminal trespass in the 3rd degree, according to a spokeswoman for Queens DA Richard Brown. Slater faces up to 7 years in prison if convicted.
No one was injured in the incident. JetBlue, in a statement, added, "At no time was the security or safety of our customers or crewmembers at risk."
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Hey, at least he grabbed a few cold ones for the trip across the tarmac... :o
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I bet his name is going on the no fly list!
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Methinks a couple of members would have "helped" him off the plane, MINUS the chute, AND BEERS!
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Methinks a couple of members would have "helped" him off the plane, MINUS the chute, AND BEERS!
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I would have been nice enough to throw the woman out first to cushion his fall. ;D DB Cooper he ain't.
FQ13
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Slater was later arrested at his home in Belle Harbor, Queens by Port Authority officials. He was found by police in a sexual embrace with his partner, sources said.
Yep, that meets my definition of a bad day. I wonder if the police were nice enough to let him finish. :D
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Any bets on rather or not drugs(Rx or illegal) were envoled?
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Any bets on rather or not drugs(Rx or illegal) were envoled?
But therapy and Prozac, Valium, etc,... are supposed to help..... :-\
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I'd almost guarantee drugs were NOT involved
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I'd almost guarantee drugs were NOT involved
you sure he is not poping something? IME just about every time some one snaps like that they are on something.
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hehe good on him
I was laughing when I read this at work and know how he felt.
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I'd almost guarantee drugs were NOT involved
Plus 1 on that. Flight attendants go through frequent and random drug tests. If they pee dirty, they lose their job. Now, that's not to say some of 'em won't get pre-flight high or wired or loaded... But in today's job market, it's less likely that someone would fly high. Prescription drugs are something different but that's only a valid argument if the FA is actually under a physician's care. But even so, if the attendant in impaired he or she will be grounded. Of course, we have all heard about drunken pilots and impaired crew. Still, even with booze the philosophy is 24 hours from bottle to throttle.
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Good point CR, but I was thinking more along the lines that if he were stoned, he would have been better able to deal with the obnoxious bat by saying something stupid or insulting ;D
PS. Had it been me, I might have used the slide 3 or 4 times, they look like fun ;D
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I must admit, that's one of the more creative resignations I've ever heard about.
BTW, if you need a job, I hear JetBlue has an opening for a flight attendant.
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He might be in line to star in a Geico commercial.
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I like how this girl quit! ;D
http://thechive.com/2010/08/10/girl-quits-her-job-on-dry-erase-board-emails-entire-office-33-photos/