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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Yeah probably in the S and M business he is probably kept in a trunk in a latex suit.
What do you expect from a company that hired all their help from the defunct Jolly Fats Weehawken Airlines ?
Which is he, do you think?
The Pitcher? Or the catcher?
Stupid move, but if you’re going to go out, you might as well do it in STYLE....
Exactly. I'm gonna tip my hat to ole' Steve Slater, a hero among gay male flight attendants.
Homosexuals seem to be out of control lately.
“Jolly Fats Weehawken Airlines?”
Serving BUFFALO! And Beyond....
Pitchers don’t know how to slide, so I’m betting the catcher.
Little JETBlue..... it needed the money.
-Diceman
I dunno, but they were in some kind of business when found according to NBC.
“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’s the impression I got.
All in all, things could have been worse. He could have dumped the cursing passenger out the door minus the chute.
Some of the public really should be required to book a ticket on a cattle car, a sheep wagon (big potential Muslim market there), or some similar vehicle designed for moving those with Beastly Behavior Syndrome.
Definitely a mental case.
“Shares with his partner”——How did I know that???
There is a definite future in Hollywood or reality TV written all over him....
Steve McCroskey: Johnny, what can you make out of this?
Johnny: This? Why, I can make a hat or a brooch or a pterodactyl...
How many times have you seen a “light in the shorts” type of guy do that on a flight? Me, more than I care to remember!
Sorry to say, he has been on a couple of my flights! YUCK!
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