Posted on 04/21/2017 9:46:33 PM PDT by Morgana
FULL TITLE: 'Hit me!' The shocking moment an American Airlines flight attendant challenges a passenger to a FIGHT after 'hitting a crying mother in struggle over her baby's stroller'
A shocking video has emerged showing an American Airlines employee challenging a passenger to a fight after allegedly hitting a woman with a stroller on a domestic flight.
The upsetting footage, filmed shortly before Flight 591 departed from San Francisco on Friday afternoon, shows the airline employee goading a passenger and saying, 'hit me'.
The clip was uploaded by passenger Surain Adyanthaya, who explained he started filming after the flight attendant 'violently took a stroller from a lady with her baby on my flight, hitting her and just missing the baby'.
Adyanthaya went on to explain: 'They just in-voluntarily escorted the mother and her kids off the flight and let the flight attendant back on, who tried to fight other passengers. The mom asked for an apology and the AA official declined.'
In the video, a woman is seen standing at the front of the airplane as she is holding a child in her arms.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
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The 2:39 video begins with the woman already crying at the front of the plane while holding her baby in her arms and talking to the captain and a female flight attendant. She is hard to understand, but appears to ask the American Airlines employers to give her back her stroller.
A male passenger, identified by WTSP as Tony Fierro, of Dallas, can then be heard saying, “hey sir,” and then telling someone next to him, “no, I’m not going to just sit here and watch this” while the woman continues to cry at the front of the plane.
Fierro then goes up to ask for the name of the “guy” who “did that with the stroller.” He says, “I want to know his name personally,” before returning to his seat.
Passengers continue to come onto the plane, including one woman who speaks to the American Airlines employees about what she saw.
A male flight attendant, who has not yet been identified, comes onto the plane and someone says, “there he is.” As he talks to his co-workers, Fierro intervenes, saying, “Hey bud, hey bud. You do that to me and I’ll knock you flat.”
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Will the last conservative to leave, please bring the Gadsden flag, and douse the lights?
I refuse to fly too for a variety of reasons. In defense of the airlines though, this is now a nation of jerks and anyone who works with the public at large soon comes to despise humanity. And justifiably so.
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Exactly. You can’t tell what happened to the lady and the baby, bus some tough guy gets out of this seat, points to the employee and says something about if you do that to me, you are going down.....in a threatening manner.
I simply don’t believe anyone hit the lady with a stroller. My kids are 21 and 19. When we flew, they took the strollers from us before we boarded the plane. Where is Paul Harvey when you need him.
As I wrote about the last incident...
“Just the culmination of corporate and union culture that encourages employees feel contempt for the customers that pay their salaries.”
These flight attendants know if they can have a passenger arrested for any altercation and charged with interfering with a flight crew, a federal felony. Some of them are POS losers who relish having that power and treat the customers who pay their salaries worse than cattle. Hall monitor syndrome.
It should cost three times as much to fly. But, the business model of the airlines is to pack every plane with as many uncomfortable, frustrated and unhappy passengers and crew as possible. It doesn’t have to be that way. 70% of the passengers don’t even have to fly, another 20% could pay any amount. And, the TSA could use profiling and personal ID to reduce inconvenience.
yes!!!
I am female so I do not care about the lack of “hot ladies” but I kinda get why the men do. All you have now are fat homos on planes. Or old ladies. But the homos have to worse.
I’m pretty sure it’s the baby’s fault.
They see way more than just your underwear, in case you were misled... They see EVERYTHING.
What is wrong with this country??!!! People are going bonkers and they are at each others' throats. It is how I kind of observed rural China right after the end of the Cultural Revolution when I had a chance to travel around China. Everyone was on pins and needles. Call it POSDS (Post Obama Stress Disorder Syndrome), I guess. Chill, peeps, CHILL. What happen to our Post-911 America-Is-One spirit we had so beautifully, yet so briefly, for about a year or so as I recall, until we went back to our cultural vomit of disrespecting and hating each other?
Multiple eyewitnesses say he did. They also say he nearly hit the baby with the stroller. AA has already thrown him under the bus.
Mother struggling with two babies, stroller, and possibly carry-on luggage. Flight attendant bumps her while taking strolling from her. Am I correct, the stroller should have been in stowed luggage? Man, who didn’t do anything to help the mother when she needed help, then comes to her rescue. People complain about small seats and narrow aisles, but not willing to pay for first class.
Situation normal. All fouled up.
I don’t see anything involving a stroller or anyone being hit. I see a passenger with a striped shirt make a threat towards a bald male stewardess and the bald stewardess gets agressive with the passenger but that’s after the passenger says he’s going to knock him out. I see nothing wrong here other than the passanger possibly getting charges files against him and the fake crying the mother with 2 babies is way too fake and very annoying. How the hell is she in 1st class?
Flying is hardly ever “the friendly skies” for a lone parent with more than one child and a stroller.
Yes, their situation is the fault of neither other passengers nor the flight staff. Regardless, if flight staff approached the situation as one would their neighbor, and not an enforcer of rules, they’d, without complaint, lend a hand helping get the family seated. Why? Helping the lone parent will make it not just easier for them, but faster for everyone.
Good for the guy standing up in defense of the mother & her little children.
Any time a young, attractive mother with a child gets upset, a $10k instant settlement would make her feel much better.
you’re talking about the passenger with the striped shirt that is the typical internet bass a$$ type, or the poofter male stewardess?
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