Posted on 12/29/2021 7:54:31 AM PST by Red Badger
ACalifornia woman is facing federal assault charges after attacking another passenger on a Delta Airlines flight on December 23rd, as reported by CNN.
The incident took place on a flight from Tampa, Florida to Atlanta, Georgia. The woman in question, 51-year-old Patricia Cornwall, was leaving the lavatory to return to her seat when she found the aisle blocked by a beverage cart while the flight attendants were serving drinks to other passengers. Cornwall asked the attendants to move so she could pass, with one of the attendants telling her to instead find an open seat until they were finished serving.
The agitated Cornwall then turned her frustration to another passenger, an as-yet unidentified man who was eating a snack and drinking his beverage, yelling at him to put his mask back on. The man points out that he doesn’t need to have his mask on since he is eating, before adding “Sit down, Karen.” Cornwall then punched the man in the head and spat on him.
Delta Airlines called in the incident ahead of its landing in Atlanta, with officers from the Atlanta Police Department waiting at the gate to take Cornwall into custody. Cornwall’s attorney said that she had been in jail since December 23rd.
On Monday, Cornwall made her first appearance in a federal court in Atlanta. She currently faces a class-A misdemeanor charge of “assault by striking, beating, or wounding R.S.M. in the special aircraft jurisdiction of the United States.” The charge carries a sentence of up to one year in prison and a fine of up to $100,000.
Federal Judge Christopher Bly set Cornwall’s bond at $200,000, and ultimately agreed to let her fly back home to Los Angeles if she follows a certain set of rules set by the court. Other than her flight home, Cornwall is forbidden from any other form of domestic interstate travel while out on bail. In addition, Delta Airlines has confirmed that Cornwall is banned from ever flying with the airline again.
“Situations like these are rare for the vast majority of our customers,” said Delta spokesperson Grant Myatt, “and Delta has zero tolerance for unruly behavior at our airports and aboard our aircraft.”
“... but also ELDER ABUSE.”
I think that may open her to civil rights charges, but then we have AG Garland to make the call.
Its what happens when women who are used to having people fall all over them for their entire lives finally hit the wall and are generally ignored like the rest of the world
On Monday, Cornwall made her first appearance in a federal court in Atlanta. She currently faces a class-A misdemeanor charge of “assault by striking, beating, or wounding R.S.M. in the special aircraft jurisdiction of the United States.” The charge carries a sentence of up to one year in prison and a fine of up to $100,000.
Federal Judge Christopher Bly set Cornwall’s bond at $200,000, and ultimately agreed to let her fly back home to Los Angeles if she follows a certain set of rules set by the court. Other than her flight home, Cornwall is forbidden from any other form of domestic interstate travel while out on bail. In addition, Delta Airlines has confirmed that Cornwall is banned from ever flying with the airline again.
“Situations like these are rare for the vast majority of our customers,” said Delta spokesperson Grant Myatt, “and Delta has zero tolerance for unruly behavior at our airports and aboard our aircraft.”
Fine and then jail the B$tch!
Then, she should be banned from any plane, rail or by bus travel in America.
Ah, ok.
Well she won’t be renewing for at least the time it takes her criminal conviction to wind its way out of the system.
I think Jeff Foxworthy could do something with this.
"You might be a redneck if you ever spent Christmas in jail after punching someone on a plane."
apparently, having been a Baywatch babe decades ago, doesn’t allow one to play the “don’t you know who I am” card.
Thanks! I feared it may be some standard charge, such as “interruption of flight attendant” instead of a charge of her behavior toward the older victim.
I thought TV and movie celebrities were exempt from laws.
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The airline and the judge had no idea who she really is and will drop charges when they learn she is a TV star.
Please note that what follows is NOT intended to in any way excuse this woman’s bad conduct. Still, I think it is notable that in all of the many threads on this, it has not been pointed out that the confrontation with the old man was started by the old man. He heard the woman comparing herself (absurdly) to Rosa Parks and decided to insert himself in the situation to provide her with a history lesson. Again, for those who missed my initial disclaimer, this does not excuse her. I only note it because I have found in life that those who insert themselves in other people’s arguments often end up getting a response that is more intense then they were counting on. OTOH, this is how society polices itself. Food for thought.
This is one of those rare occasions when a hot chick may actually be guilty. Personally I’d still vote not guilty.
She won’t be at any Open Houses any time soon......................
There is never any excuse, nor should there be any mercy, for actions like this. I don’t care what someone thinks of masking or vaccines or flight delays or the actions of flight attendants, if you use physical violence or the threat thereof on another person in other than self defense you need to spend the rest of your life breaking rocks in the hot sun.
My post wasn't well-received.
I’m with you.
he also told her that she wasn’t black, this isn’t Alabama, and this isn’t a bus after the white lady screamed she thought was was being treated like Rosa Parks.
LOL
Crazy Karen Lady.
Pi—ed she not get a casting call for “RUST”?
Just because the Sentence would be not-guilty in the 1970s, doesn’t mean filthy guilty at the end of 2021.
This gal is already in some fairly serious trouble. Trying for a late shot at “Understatement of the year, 2021”.
Going to the dog park helped me to develop Karen-Radar. They are usually the ones kissing their dogs and wiping their butts. I give them a wide berth.
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