Posted on 09/10/2010 7:48:40 AM PDT by day10
MYFOXNY.COM - A Playboy centerfold tried to bust out -- midair -- from a jet amid a bad case of high anxiety.
Law enforcement officers met a JetBlue plane at its arrival gate in Newark Liberty International Airport Thursday afternoon because of a passenger who was causing a disturbance on board, the airline reported.
The passenger was identified as 21-year-old Tiffany Livingston. She was aboard JetBlue Flight 522 from Florida to Newark, N.J., on Thursday when she bolted from her seat and tried to open the door of the plane.
She had became agitated because of turbulence and appeared to grab the handle of an emergency door, a source told Fox 5 News. Then two off-duty police officers who happened to be on the flight stopped her.
The plane, Flight 552 from Fort Myers, Florida, landed safely and without incident, said Alison Croyle, a spokesperson for the airline. "JetBlue will cooperate fully with local authorities, who are investigating this matter," she said in a statement.
"She said she's gone through this before, but never this bad, and didn't have ... her medication," one source told the New York Post .
Livingston was detained and placed in federal custody.
She was the centerfold for the debut edition of VIP, the Singapore version of Playboy, in which she was described as "not just another pretty face."
"Tiffany boasts the immaculate poise of a mature model wrapped with a bubbly demeanor," the profile said.
Asked if she believed in destiny, Tiffany Livingston posted, "I'm the kind of person, who needs to feel like everything happens for a reason. When you date a guy and it goes badly, that's horrible. But if you can write a song about it, then it was worth it."
I hear you. Panic attacks are horrible. My husband had one on an Air India flight from New York to England during a storm. Since then I’ve been extremely anxious while flying.
Brunette, and I’d have to say definitely not guilty.
Inflight cabin pressure is about 8.5 psi. Those small emergency exits have about 2200 lbs pressing on them so no one should worry about anyone popping one open.
This is a Hugh issue, bunny gone nuts.
It’s the peanuts fault, not bunny orgnaic.
Wow! 20+ posts and this thread is still useless.....
Well Roman Polanski’s is still open...oh wait she’s too old
Wow. Great quality film at that link. I just sent it to my husband. :)
That would have been terrible. Mine were all on short flights (like Midland to Dallas or Little Rock to Dallas). I think I would have had a heart attack on a longer flight, or my husband would have stuffed me out the window! Interestingly I recently had a very similar weird experience on the High Road out of Taos this summer, so it might actually have been something to do with altitude, altho since the cabin in an airplane is pressurized I don’t know if that’s really possible (and I have been on that road previously without incident).
Thanks for sharing your psychoses with us.
Why do you want to know that? WHY? WHY? WHY? WHY? WHY?
Who knows, maybe it’s an inherited tendency? Whatever it is, it’s awful.
Well, she’s safe from zombie attack.
I knew her, one of the famous orgnaic twins.
Number one rule ... never leave home without your meds!
Sucked out of a jet and free fall from 30,000 feet, or go to Newark, New Jersey? That’s a tough one.
Thank you !!!
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