Airline Steward at JFK Pulls Emergency Chute, Flies Coop

NBC New York ^ | 6:36 PM EDT, Mon, Aug 9, 2010 | y JONATHAN DIENST, PEI-SZE CHENG and HASANI GITTENS

[Smogger]

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.

[Smogger]

"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."

He probably should have thrown the lady down the chute. But I digress.

Peggy Noonan's recent article "Boiling Over" comes to mind.

[mbarker12474]

I kinda like this.

[bigheadfred]

ATTENTION AMERICA!!! THERE IS

ONE

JOB OPENING AT JET BLUE!

[iowamark]

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.

LOL

[DemforBush]

Well, the guy’s gonna lose his job and probably never work as a flight attendant again...but I kind of understand the guy, too. I think we’ve all had days where we just want to go D-Fens* on the idiots around us.

Of course, the guy might have had other issues too. I wonder if he was over Macho Grande...

.

*Michael Douglas’ character in Falling Down.

[agere_contra]

He’ll never get over Mucho Grande.

[agere_contra]

Macho Grande.

Dammit!

[MamaB]

My plane story but it really has nothing to do with this one. We flew into Tampa last December for the Outback Bowl. When we landed, I stood up to get my computer bag in the overhead storage area. Well, I am on the short side and this nice or so I thought man from behind my seat asked it the bag was mine and he started to get it down for me. I had turned around to get my purse from the seat. When I turned around, I heard my friend say something to the effect that he had taken my laptop and was in the thingy from the plane to the terminal. A stewardess ran after him and got it back. I guess he thought he had just won a good lap top computer. Made me so upset to think there are such crooks in this world. Made me a whole lot more careful when getting off planes.

[EggsAckley]

Reminds me of Tracey Ullman’s character, the gay male flight attendent. Hissy fit city.

[Smogger]

No. I don’t think I’ll ever get over Macho Grande.

[Man50D]

He forgot to thank the passengers for flying JetBlue.

[joelt]

He was retaining water.

[The_Sword_of_Groo]

This is just hilarious. The guy flips out, tells everyone off, grabs a couple road beers and pulls the plug. Then goes home and becomes master of his domain. He is my new hero!


"Take this job and Shove it" Ping

[bigheadfred]

ping

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

This seems reasonable to me.

[Col Frank Slade]

Check out this guy’s picture on Drudge.

He made a beeline from JFK to the nearest bath house.

[Ronin]

I can almost sympathize...

Some days are indeed worse than others.

[WeatherGuy]

George Costanza:   "Of course. But I really wanna leave my mark this time. You know, uh, I wanna walk away from the Yankees with people saying "Wow! Now that guy got canned!"

[dfwgator]

[Nosterrex]

What do you want to bet that this guy is gay? He certainly has the temperament of many homosexual men.