American Airlines: hold my unicorn frappuccino..
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 ...
Odd.
I agree with you. I’m not saying the mother was frazzled, navigating TSA, check in, etc., with two babies, traveling by herself. Because I wasn’t there. But, it would be understandable if she were frazzled. She is not the enemy. She is a valued customer. She needed some help and maybe some sympathy. On the other hand, the aisle is narrow. It could be she was bumped by the flight attendant while he was trying to help her. She shouldn’t have taken that personally, if it wasn’t anything seriously. But, she’s not the professional. The flight attendant is the professional.
Now comes the real challenge. Shifting gears from helping and being sympathetic to a passenger that is maybe frazzled, to responding to a physical threat from another passenger. There are limits to what can be expected of a flight attendant. So, at this point, I wonder, where were the other members of the flight crew? Well, you could say the members of the flight crew were separated from each other by the passengers navigating the narrow aisle.
This is why passengers with small children, and others needing special assistance, are asked to board the plane prior to the other passengers. Why was the big guy even on the plane prior to this mother and her babies being seated?
“I wonder when American Airlines will release the suspended employee’s name. He didn’t act like any flight attendant I’ve ever heard of. The pilot and others seemed to defer to him.
Odd.”
~~~~~~~~
I expect his name to become public before too long. As for them deferring, who knows - fear of the unions, GLBTQXZ protests.
This is a sign from the airplane gods that portends passenger planes falling from the sky and crashing into your bathtub.
Hopefully for him he’s squeaky clean, because the nets are going to give his background a thorough probing once his name is known.
“Yes, the obnoxious, interfering male passenger was a major league jerk.”
We don’t have enough info to make an intelligent observation, but it hasn’t stopped anyone else, so why should I be any different.
I APPLAUD this guy for defending this woman.
Apparently, he witnessed what happened and was going to make a formal complaint. Then the flight attendant in question, appeared right in front of the guy. Obviously not the first time they had seen each other. The passenger, obviously angry at what he had seen the flight attendant do to the woman and her children, confronted the flight attendant with typical male bravado of something like pick on someone your own size, or try that with me, punk. (NOTICE, I am not saying that is what the passenger said, they are EXAMPLES of common male bravado).
“Imagining” what “I” think the passenger witnessed, I don’t blame him at all. I would have done the same.
As much as I think that young children should fly in cargo containers, I wouldn’t stand for them or their mother being assaulted.
Without all the information, I automatically would assume that the airline employee/TSA Nazis are in the wrong.
Just looking at this 4 x 4 or 4 ft diameter flight attendant, I think he’s guilty.
whatever happened to women treating a man with respect....
She was likely inadvertently non-compliant or holding up the line and the attendant over reacted or actually pushed her.
What you can see on the video is a captain standing there like a bump on a log. That situation could have pretty easily been contained by him taking control of things.
That is, helping the lady to her seat, having attendants get her a coke or bottled water, walking right up to the phones recording and people and saying, “I didn’t see everything, but let’s get everyone settled in and I will get to the bottom of this for everyone at the end of the flight.”
That’s funny, but Neegan needs to be wearing an airline employee uniform.
Yeah, the bald attendant seemed like he was the one in charge.
She went to the rear of the plane and was attempting to put the stroller in the overhead bins — which was almost certainly “mission impossible”. Apparently the involved airline employee (a “gate agent”?) was directed to go and remove the stroller to the proper stroller check-in location. It would be nice if someone had a video of that because the woman apparently physically attempted to prevent the stroller's removal. She then followed the gate agent back to the front of the plane and confinued to ask for her stroller back.
LESSON LEARNED: if you want to fly international first class free, disobey airline safety rules and then cry hysterically continuously,
I guess we watched a different video. All I saw was some woman crying and a male passenger being an ahole that should have been arrested.
Don't let being to lazy to read the article get in your way of truth:
A female flight attendant had given her permission to look for a storage space as it folds up small, but said she would have to check it in if there was no room.'She was looking for space when the male attendant tried to take it away from her... and she said she told him the other attendant had told her it was okay to look,' Morgan said.
Agree.
The guy was defending a crying woman who had apparently been hit with a stroller. Hitting a woman/mom was a terrible thing to do. Attendant deserved a beat down.
Airlines need to learn to treat passsengers better. Screw ‘em.
It started in the BACK of the plane where the woman and her kids already were. By the time of the video it had moved forward to the cabin door area. From just the video, it appears that the woman with children had just gotten on the plane. Not the case.
“Good for the guy standing up in defense of the mother & her little children.”
I’m with you.
The “men” on this thread who are ragging on this guy in favor of “rules” and “law” are an embarrassment.
Not only do actual men have to lead in chaotic situations like this in defense of women and children, now we have to take time out of our day to explain to complete pussies like those chiming in in criticism just how to be an American Man, when 50 years ago you could count on just about any man to do the right thing.
You know who you are.
Are you men, or bald, pudgie belligerent flight attendants pretending to be men?
“.....the woman apparently physically attempted to prevent the stroller’s removal....”
Oh, you mean HER PROPERTY?
I want to see this stroller. Folded up? And was she told, like she said, that an airline employee had told her she could take it on the plane and stow it in the overhead compartment, if there was room?
“when 50 years ago you could count on just about any man to do the right thing.”
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
As the old saying goes: “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men should do nothing.”
These aren’t good men posting in criticism of the only guy to stand in defense of a mother and child.
I’m not sure what they are, but they aren’t men.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.