Posted on 07/25/2017 5:49:44 AM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?
A Delta Airlines pilot and a flight attendant flew off the handle Monday at LaGuardia Airport, causing a two-hour delay, sources said.
The 54-year-old pilot had a dispute with a 26-year-old flight attendant prior to takeoff aboard the plane bound for Portland, Maine, sources said.
He and the attendant exchanged words in the aisle and he called her “a piece of s---,” a source said.
“His conversation was racist, inconsiderate and unprofessional,” the source said.
Each alleged the other had aggressively grabbed the other’s arm.
As many as six Port Authority police officers, some carrying “huge” guns, interviewed flight attendants in the jet bridge, a source said.
Cops determined neither were injured and made no arrests.
But the crew ordered both to disembark, causing the plane to leave at 1:30 p.m. — two hours late.
Delta could not be reached for comment.
When I grew up the flight attendants would never question the authority of the captain of a flight.
Who is in charge of the airplane?
What is wring with reporters that they cannot give a recounting of an incident with at least a few salient facts so the reader gains some understanding of the described events?
All I can tell from this piece is that the pilot and stewardess were somehow dismissed by the “crew”, even though the pilot is the leader of that crew.
However, I could not help but be reminded:
A pilot dies and goes to hell. As he is waiting for the devil, he notices three doors. The devil is nowhere in sight so he walks over to door number one and peeks inside.
There he sees a lone pilot, sweating over emergency after emergency, non-stop bells and horns. Quickly closing that door, he creeps to door number two. There he sees a pilot going over checklist after checklist after checklist.
Slamming closed that door, he steps over to the 3rd and last door. Inside is a pilot, along with three flight attendants who are pouring coffee, serving dinners and cold compresses to the pilot. Smiling he slowly closes the door and goes over and sits down.
The devil finally arrives and tells him to choose a door. He laughs and chooses door no. 3. “Sorry” says the devil. “Door no. 3 is flight attendant hell”.
http://aviationhumor.net/how-pilots-would-like-to-spend-their-time-in-hell/
LaGuardia Airport is a horror show. Especially with all the construction going on. Add a Mets game across the street and you’ll want to kill yourself.
I was on a Delta flight recently. The FAs were made up like they were on their way to a night club when they got off the plane. Nasty attitude.
Lovers spat?
Not only can the 'source' not count - how hard is it to count to six? - but what does their carrying 'huge guns' have to do with anything? Did she (making a gross presumption here) expect the cops to be carrying pea-shooters?
In an account I read there were ostensibly racial remarks made. I will hold my own counsel as to who had a chip on their shoulder.
This from another anonymous source. Well, he loses.
Was a safe space needed for "some" who witnessed? Counselors on standby?
Undoubtedly they were military style assault pistols, and they are way more dangerous and scary!
He may have been the co-pilot, not the captain.
Well, Delta can’t blame Ann Coulter for this.
I found the article to be lacking in emotion and participant emotion reporting, a much more egregious error in modern gerbilism than forgetting to include facts.
Summer between high school and college, I worked as a maintenance man at a small airport motel. I not only fixed things, but I drove the airport limo (station wagon). I would often notice pilots and stewardesses coming out of the same rooms in the morning. Later I would notice that the nightstands and dresser tops in those rooms were covered with empty “airplane” booze bottles. I did a little growing up mentally that summer, just in time for college...
No more mile high club for that couple.
OMG! Did they have pistol grips? Oh noes!!!
A lot of truth in that. Even if it was the copilot, the attendant is not the boss.
As this unfolds I cannot see the FA winning unless the Pilot was basically telling her to get on her knees.
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