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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Bad, bad man!
(I'm still laughing)
He was probably parked in the white zone, which is for loading and unloading of passengers, there is no parking in the white zone.
Listen Betty, don’t start up with your white zone s-— again.
Many pitchers throw backdoor sliders. I’m just sayin’.
You know what would have prevented this? Full body scans of the passengers with the images posted on a DHS adult pay web site.
LOL !! Perfect.
His coffee, tea, or me pose...?
Lol... Yes, but we’ve taken this conversation about as far as I want to take it.
Slater is a sexual degenerate, thus he has a degenerate mind. Giving him/it the benefit of the doubt by calling it/him a narcissist is unwarranted. He is a degenerate.
That too
Defense via homophobic victimhood in 3... 2... 1...
My gadar went off when I saw a pic of this guy.
Agree with your post. Most people here IMO could not deal with passengers on domestic flights....this guy just lost it.
7 years in prison for this???? Idiotic IMO.
He told a passenger off.
The taxpayers are going to be billed for 7 years of incarceration for this? ? ?
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