Posted on 08/09/2010 3:46:25 PM PDT by traumer
NEW YORK (CBS 2) — A JetBlue flight attendant was arrested Monday following a bizarre incident onboard a flight incoming to John F. Kennedy Airport in which he allegedly inflated the emergency exit slide and rode it down to the tarmac after cursing out passengers over the plane’s intercom.
CBS 2’s Hazel Sanchez got a look at the inflatable emergency slide on Monday afternoon. It was to be towed away after aviation sources said JetBlue flight attendant Steven Slater deployed it in a fit of rage just after the plane landed around noon. JetBlue flight attendant Steven Slater
JetBlue flight attendant Steven Slater (file)
Sources said Slater got into a heated argument with a passenger aboard Flight 1052 from Pittsburgh International Airport after the plane landed.
Sources said Slater lost his temper when a passenger attempted to pull baggage out of an overhead bin as the plane taxied to the gate. Sources also said Slater told the passenger to sit down until the plane was parked at the gate, but the passenger yelled expletives at Slater and pulled the bag out, hitting the flight attendant.
Aviation sources said Slater got on the plane’s public address system and yelled:
“To the passenger who called me a (expletive), (expletive) you. I’ve been in the business 28 years. I’ve had it. That’s it.”
Sources said Slater then grabbed some beer from the plane, deployed the inflatable slide, and took off in his car parked in an employee lot.
Aviation sources said JetBlue waited 25 minutes before notifying Port Authority Police.
A manhunt ensued. Police searched the terminals and the airport grounds. Slater was later arrested at the Belle Harbor, N.Y., home he shares with his partner, according to Slater’s mother.
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... Slater then grabbed some beer from the plane, deployed the inflatable slide, and took off in his car.
I’d call his reaction perfectly NORMAL... :o)
“Slater was later arrested at the Belle Harbor, N.Y., home he shares with his partner...”
Slater has issues.
At first I thought this was the same idiot that stole the classified documents and gave them to Wikileaks, turns out that they not only look alike but run in the same crowds.
“Slater was later arrested at the Belle Harbor, N.Y., home he shares with his partner...”
Oh, so they were in business together??
THERE SHOULD NEVER BE A MALE STEWARDESS
Having been in on the Customer Service side of Commercial Aviation for almost as long, I can understand EXACTLY what the flight attendant went through.
Stupid move, but if you’re going to go out, you might as well do it in STYLE....
Creepy looking.
At least he didn’t inflate the slide in flight. (Probably can’t be done in flight.)
“Isn’t that special”.
Slater is an unprofessional narcissist. He should have simply had the unruly passenger arrested, had his head injury looked at and collected worker’s comp and/or disability. Then he would have all the time in the world to share embraces with his “partner.”
sounds likes he’s trying to get fired for “psychological issues” so he can go on the dole.
Now put the Wikileaker next to him.
Adam and StEVE
Let me guess...he was menstruating???
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