Woman accused of smoking, swearing and hitting attendant on flight
Chaos broke out aboard a JetBlue plane after a flight attendant snatched a cigarette out of a woman's mouth, court records say.
Christina E. Szele, 35, is accused of flouting no-smoking rules and swearing and screaming racist slurs at a flight attendant, whom she allegedly socked in the jaw.
The woman, who is white, then began swearing and shouting racist slurs at Whyte, who is black, according to several witnesses.
Whyte said he felt threatened when the woman said, “I'm going to get you” and threatened to kill him, according to court records.
During the struggle, flight attendant Garcia had an asthma attack and needed to use an inhaler.
The cuffed woman kept swearing, kicking a bulkhead wall and stomping the floor until the plane landed in Denver, witnesses said.
In a DIA holding cell, the woman told the FBI that she'd had two beers before the flight and three vodka drinks on board, but that she has a “high tolerance” for alcohol and felt fine.
She didn't recall smoking at her seat or hitting anyone, the FBI statement said. “If she did, she had to have been drunk during the flight. She blamed the crew for serving her the three vodka drinks,” the FBI agent wrote.
A flight attendant said that the woman was just served one drink.
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This statement sounds like it has the makings of an Abbott & Costello exchange.
The woman was white?
No, the man was Whyte.
Well, who was black?
The man was...