Posted on 08/10/2019 6:21:38 PM PDT by simpson96
A passenger on a United flight from Chicago to South Bend, Indiana, says the only attendant slurred safety announcements and passed out. Airport police arrested the woman, accusing her of intoxication. By
The flight attendant on a morning trip from Chicago to South Bend, Indiana, was intoxicated and didn’t know what city she had landed in when officers escorted her away, prosecutors say.
Airport police officers learned the flight attendant was either drunk or having a “medical issue” after the United Express airplane departed O’Hare International Airport on Aug. 2, according to an arrest affidavit.
Passenger Aaron Scherb tweeted at United Airlines while on the flight, saying he and others recognized her impairment.
Scherb told McClatchy newsgroup the flight attendant bumped seats and travelers, dropped things and slurred the safety announcement .
“After everyone boarded the flight and we were still parked at the gate, the flight attendant began the security announcement, which seemed very slurred,” Scherb told McClatchy in an email. “She stopped after about 10 seconds without finishing.”
While the plane taxied to the runway, the flight attendant took her seat and appeared to “pass out” or fall asleep, Scherb said.
A video taken by Scherb shows the flight attendant become “briefly alert” when pilots called on the internal telephone, which she didn’t answer, he said.
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Woke up in Tokyo like that.
Ambien?
I take Ambien. It’s not like that at all.
I hope she gets help, and I sure hope she doesn’t drive her car in that state.
Good grief...
Could be low blood sugar related to diabetes
Do you really want to fly from Ohare to South Bend? It’s 90 minutes on the South Shore Line.
South Bender?
While connected, United Express is not United Airlines.
Same with ‘Dr. dragged off United flight’ and “United breaks guitars.”
United Express employees are not United employees.
United never makes this distinction because they want passengers to think they are on a United Airlines flight. Hence the bold black lettering United with the whisper, barely visible gray lettering Express on Express flights.
Well at least she wasn’t at the controls!
Flying High?
Ditto
She was probably partying with the United pilots that got arrested for flying drunk a few days ago.
Hey, if folks don’t know how a seat belt operates by now....
My thoughts too. Or a vascular issue.
Kudos for continuing the Freerepublic tradition of not reading the article before posting:
"A breath test later showed her blood-alcohol content level was .204, prosecutors said."
What’s the charge? Flight attending while impaired? 8>)
I’ve had several friends have real bad experiences on Ambian.
Sleep driving... several...
Even driving, visiting people, holding conversations, driving home, and remember none of it.
The worst was a woman who would wake up under ambian be very sexually playful, and not remember anything about it in the morning. She told me that she thought she was raped. He said she was awake, talking, and was the aggressor.
Ambian is very dangerous.
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