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'You don't put your hands on my flight attendant!' Pilot tackles drunk passenger
Daily Mail (UK) ^ | 2 August 2016 | Valerie Edwards

Posted on 08/02/2016 6:27:26 PM PDT by PotatoHeadMick

An American Airlines pilot tackled an intoxicated man to the ground after he tried to force his way off a taxiing plane and attacked a flight attendant.

In footage posted online, the pilot is heard yelling 'you don't put your hands on my flight attendant!' as he forced the belligerent passenger to the floor after the plane landed and came to a stop in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Michael Kerr, 25, from Kentucky, was banned from flying after appearing in court on charges of being intoxicated and disruptive, assault on a female and communicating threats, according to the Lexington Herald-Leader.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Kentucky; US: North Carolina
KEYWORDS: americanairline; aviation
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Ok the plane was on the ground and stopped but should the pilot be leaving the cockpit to handle this sort of thing? Wouldn't a call to airport security be a better option?
1 posted on 08/02/2016 6:27:26 PM PDT by PotatoHeadMick
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To: PotatoHeadMick

Nice to see you, Mick.

How have you been?


2 posted on 08/02/2016 6:29:16 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (Gear Up)
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To: PotatoHeadMick

Not if your bonking that specific flight attendant.


3 posted on 08/02/2016 6:29:25 PM PDT by The Toll
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That’s why there are two pilots in the cockpit. I’m sure that the one that remained was completely capable of taxiing the plane to the gete.


4 posted on 08/02/2016 6:30:33 PM PDT by vette6387
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To: PotatoHeadMick

My God what a SEXIST, MISOGYNIST PILOT HE IS, talking about ‘HIS’ flight attendant as if he OWNS HER.. or something.. He should’ve shown this woman the respect she deserves and let the drunk man put his hands all over her like the independent, self-sufficient liberated female that she is!


5 posted on 08/02/2016 6:30:40 PM PDT by CivilWarBrewing (Females DESTROYED America.)
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To: The Toll

ROFL!!!!! for real!!!!!


6 posted on 08/02/2016 6:31:07 PM PDT by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: The Toll

Exactly.

Hey pilot - who’s kidding who here?


7 posted on 08/02/2016 6:32:48 PM PDT by Paulie (America without Christ is like a Chemistry book without the periodic table.)
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To: PotatoHeadMick

That is so great. I love this guy!!


8 posted on 08/02/2016 6:34:01 PM PDT by WENDLE (hillary in an unindicted criminal.)
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To: PotatoHeadMick

Should have just let the passengers handle it, like that scene in the movie Airplane where they are lining up to clobber the hysterical lady.


9 posted on 08/02/2016 6:37:17 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: PotatoHeadMick

This account forgot to mention he just got engaged.

“Michael Kerr had just accepted his boyfriend’s, Matthew Stacy, proposal before taking a flight from Lexington, Ky. to Charlotte, N.C. on July 21.”


10 posted on 08/02/2016 6:39:44 PM PDT by wrench
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To: The Toll

Airline employees are tight knit and treat each other like family. Aircrew especially.


11 posted on 08/02/2016 6:41:35 PM PDT by wrench
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To: vette6387

“That’s why there are two pilots in the cockpit. I’m sure that the one that remained was completely capable of taxiing the plane to the gete.”

But the pilot has opened the cockpit and come out, if this clown were a decoy wouldn’t the pilot have left the plane vulnerable to being seized?


12 posted on 08/02/2016 6:45:10 PM PDT by PotatoHeadMick
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“But the pilot has opened the cockpit and come out...”

Well, he has to come out to take a leak when the plane is airborne, and he will come out when the plane’s at the gate. What’s the diff? Besides, pilots can be armed, also co-pilots. This captain did the right thing!


13 posted on 08/02/2016 6:47:44 PM PDT by vette6387
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To: CivilWarBrewing

While the pilot is in charge of the airplane, everything is his to guard, including the flight attendant


14 posted on 08/02/2016 6:52:48 PM PDT by tillacum
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

Thanks for your kind words, I haven’t really been anywhere it’s just that I find it hard to say anything new or make any great enlightened statement that hasn’t been said already about the world and the state it’s in.

I have posted two posts here today not really connected with politics.


15 posted on 08/02/2016 6:54:50 PM PDT by PotatoHeadMick
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To: vette6387

Fair enough, I thought in the days we live in having the captain of the plane brawling on the floor with a drunk, whilst thoroughly satisfying on many levels, would nonetheless be regarded as a bit of a security compromise.

Obviously not.


16 posted on 08/02/2016 6:59:05 PM PDT by PotatoHeadMick
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To: CivilWarBrewing

My pilot would have never done that.


17 posted on 08/02/2016 7:04:55 PM PDT by sasquatch
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To: The Toll

My friend is a flight attendant, and her husband is a pilot for this airline. She is based out of Charlotte. Wasn’t them though;-)


18 posted on 08/02/2016 7:06:14 PM PDT by toothfairy86
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To: CivilWarBrewing

The Captain in Command is responsible for everything concerning that airplane until the craft is parked at the jetway, engines stopped, the doors opened and the flight totally completed. Even until all passengers have exited the plane, she IS his flight attendant.


19 posted on 08/02/2016 7:16:00 PM PDT by Tucker39 (Welcome to America! Now speak English; and keep to the right....In driving, in Faith, and politics.)
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To: CivilWarBrewing

The pilot’s patriarchal response sickens me.


20 posted on 08/02/2016 7:50:52 PM PDT by Rockpile (GOP legislators-----caviar eating surrender monkeys.)
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