Posted on 08/11/2010 8:40:24 PM PDT by BunnySlippers
“For 20 years, I thought about it,” he said in an interview on Wednesday morning. That is how long he’s been in the industry. “But you never think you’re going to do it.”
On Monday, on a full flight that had just landed from Pittsburgh, he did.
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Following his arraignment on Tuesday, his court-appointed lawyer said that Mr. Slater had intervened in an altercation involving a female passenger before the flight left Pittsburgh for Kennedy International Airport. The woman had been squabbling with another passenger over access to the overhead luggage bins. Her identity remains unknown.
A document submitted at the arraignment quoted most of what Mr. Slater said when he grabbed the microphone and turned on the intercom, but not the part with words about the passenger that cannot be printed here. The document quoted Mr. Slater’s description of what happened next: “I accessed the porthole, pulled the door handle inflating the slide, took my baggage and slid down the slide, and left.” The document made no mention of the beers Mr. Slater grabbed from the beverage cart on his way out, a detail provided by the authorities in the aftermath of the incident.
(Excerpt) Read more at cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com ...
I question the $10,000 figure for the chute.
I had my airbag repaired at the dealership last week ... the passenger side above the window. It was $814.00!
Maybe I left off a zero.
Because a smokin’ hot babe wouldn’t put up the stuff a FA has to deal with, for the money the airlines pay.
There are many more lucrative career paths for the babes, even the dumb ones.
You're not saying TSA and Homeland Security and all the pretty little color warnings etc. are a farce are you? You're not saying an imaginative terrorist could make a huge statement one way or another are you? I mean everybody knows we're safer now that we have to take our shoes off and carry itty bitty bottles of stuff around (or just use what you get at a hotel...what an idea...).
This whole situation cranks me off. I once tripped a self-important twentysomething into his seat to shut him up (it worked, I can be subtly scary) and I've seen flight attendants act like Nazis, I've seen passengers carry isht that obviously won't fit in an overhead on while the crew wishes it away... Flying sucks. I'm glad I'm the daddy rabbit so I can send my minions off on trips now and I don't have to go so much.
Oh and I don't give a rip that the guy's a flamer. And he should have reported the female dog not pulled his stunt
Nope. I carried many replacement slides for our company, because the they would get accidentally deployed in the third-world countries (for various reasons). That’s a conservative figure. The down-time is what’s really expensive.
Disapprove all you want but grabbing the beers and making a first in history mode of job termination sells the story. Bonus points for style.
That’s an awesome point of view. SARC
When you are under attack, when your life is in danger, when your free country is being stolen from under you...
Submit. Go Passive.
If we had a few more JetBlues we wouldn’t be in the mess we’re in.
Nope. And it turns out that this little drama queen really is a queen.
The kicker is his EX-WIFE says he wants to start his own fashion line. Link upthread.
There is a lot wrong there.
Making a 'hero' out of him is even more so.
I wonder how many will be 'inspired' to make some similar 'gesture' on their way to unemployment.
But he did it with such flair and surety, landing on his feet. I have enjoyed several chuckles about this story, and I'm not ashamed. Wishing him all the best in his next career choice. I would seriously consider hiring him if his career path crossed my industry.
Going to make a great movie.
Haha!
//he should have reported the female dog not pulled his stunt//
Exactly
I bet he really wanted to do it with a rose in his mouth, with his legs in hose. One leg saucily extended with his toe pointed while he looks over his shoulder at the crew flirtatiously. I predict he’ll be diagnosed with Drama-Queen-Fabulous-Stress-Disorder.
He was clearly way out of line. My wife used to work a call center and, as supervisor, got the “escalated” calls. People were terrible to her. Really coarse, rude and, well, stupid.
If you work with the public, you have to be able to handle that without using the emergency slide.
LOL
Once upon a time that's what they did.
You’re joking, right? :-)"
Yeah, you're right. No one in their right mind would ever come to that conclusion.
Who’s POTUS?What’s your next stupid question??
VERY GOOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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