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Passenger Jumps From 737 At New Orleans
AvWeb ^ | November 2, 2023

Posted on 11/28/2023 4:52:58 AM PST by billorites

A passenger suffering an apparent “mental health emergency” popped an overwing emergency exit on a Southwest plane in New Orleans and jumped to the ramp Sunday evening. Airport police were called to the gate after ground personnel detained the passenger. No one was hurt but the passenger was described as being “incoherent.”

“When deputies made contact with the man, they found he was incoherent and not fully aware of his surroundings,” a news release from the police said. He was still in the hospital on Monday for evaluation. Southwest said everyone did everything right in the incident. “We commend our flight and ground crews for their swift action and apologize to our Customers for their inconvenience,” Southwest Airlines said in an email to USA TODAY. The plane was ready to push so passengers had to be put on another aircraft for their flight to Atlanta and Baltimore.

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To: Ex-Con777

I had two hours in 2011 to sit and wait on a flight. I observed at least three women in pajamas/flip flops.


21 posted on 11/28/2023 5:54:46 AM PST by pepsionice
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To: Gen.Blather
Commercial air transport is the modern equivalent of a bus.

Yep, extremely uncomfortable and too many passengers that are distasteful, or out of line in one way or another.

22 posted on 11/28/2023 5:57:45 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: billorites
an apparent “mental health emergency”

Seems like we have a mental illness pandemic going on and zero treatment.

23 posted on 11/28/2023 5:59:41 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: Jane Long
what is with all the crazies?

heres why

2 Thessalonians 2:9-12

9 The coming of the lawless one will be in accordance with how Satan works. He will use all sorts of displays of power through signs and wonders that serve the lie,

10 and all the ways that wickedness deceives those who are perishing. They perish because they refused to love the truth and so be saved.

11 For this reason God sends them a powerful delusion so that they will believe the lie

12 and so that all will be condemned who have not believed the truth but have delighted in wickedness.

24 posted on 11/28/2023 6:02:48 AM PST by Ikeon (I stopped going to my family doctor whenever I felt sick. I've never been healthier. .)
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To: pepsionice

I wonder how they would fair in an evacuation, running across a field with burning jet fuel. If they are behind me, it would be less of my concern.

I did pose that scenario to a fellow passenger who took his shoes and socks off prior to takeoff. It was an IQ test and he failed miserably. My mother would be disappointed in my slovenly behavior for the rest of the flight.

EC


25 posted on 11/28/2023 6:10:53 AM PST by Ex-Con777
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To: Ikeon
Its very real.


26 posted on 11/28/2023 6:14:31 AM PST by Delta 21 (If anyone is treasonous, it is those who call me such.)
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To: Ex-Con777
I would rather see a dress code for passengers.

When you put a lunatic in a suit, you end up with a well dressed lunatic.

27 posted on 11/28/2023 6:25:51 AM PST by BlackbirdSST (Trump or Bust! Long live the Republic.)
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To: BlackbirdSST

A few years ago on a flight to the Bahamas, I had a bad panic attack 15 minutes into the flight. I took my sedative and my anti-anxiety med prior, but it didn’t help. My wife didn’t know what to do. I got up and went to the back of the plane where a flight attendant was sitting. She asked me to go back to my seat and when I told her what I was experiencing, she had me sit down next to her and stayed with me until the attack passed.

With my experiences having panic attacks, it could have gotten ugly, but the flight attendant was calm and collected and helped me through the attack. I sent the airlines a glowing review of the flight attendant and also let the rest of the crew know as we disembarked what a great job she did.


28 posted on 11/28/2023 6:33:12 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz (I AM A ZIONIST HOODLUM!)
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To: pepsionice
I observed at least three women in pajamas/flip flops.

I saw a grown man in a flannel onesie on a flight I was on.

29 posted on 11/28/2023 6:36:09 AM PST by neverevergiveup
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To: Ikeon; SaveFerris

Very true.


30 posted on 11/28/2023 6:49:02 AM PST by Jane Long (What we were told was a conspiracy theory in ‘20 is now fact. Land of the sheep, home of the knaves)
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To: billorites

A lot of wackos remained in New Orleans after Katrina.


31 posted on 11/28/2023 7:04:00 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (It wasn't "genocide" when Hamas did it. Hypocrites!!!)
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To: Ikeon; Jane Long
Satan is certainly preparing the world 🌎🌍 for the debut of his Antichrist - the spirit of antichrist is empowering the godless reprobates 🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐 - the sheep 🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑 and the goats 🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐 are being divided like never before





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32 posted on 11/28/2023 7:04:43 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Laslo Fripp

Looked and sounded like Black Friday at Walmart.


33 posted on 11/28/2023 7:06:25 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (It wasn't "genocide" when Hamas did it. Hypocrites!!!)
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To: neverevergiveup; Liz; Red Badger; SunkenCiv

No. You saw an immature 35 year old child flying.

Not a man wearing a onesie in the airplane.


34 posted on 11/28/2023 7:23:11 AM PST by Robert A Cook PE (Method, motive, and opportunity: No morals, shear madness and hatred by those who cheat.)
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To: Jane Long

What is with all of the crazies flying on commercial flights, these days?
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What these events make clear is that an increasing percentage of the population is experiencing drug induced mental instability issues, which in turn is jeopardizing the safety of the general public.


35 posted on 11/28/2023 7:23:58 AM PST by fortes fortuna juvat (Biden left our troops to die in Afghanistan and our military equipment to our enemy. Never forget.)
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To: Gen.Blather

Commercial air transport is the modern equivalent of a bus.
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And any normal person who has to ride a bus in any major city in the USA is to be pitied.


36 posted on 11/28/2023 7:26:06 AM PST by fortes fortuna juvat (Biden left our troops to die in Afghanistan and our military equipment to our enemy. Never forget.)
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To: billorites

From title, I thought a passenger jumped from plane in flight.


37 posted on 11/28/2023 7:27:11 AM PST by NetAddicted (MAGA2024)
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To: neverevergiveup

I remember when people dressed up like going to church to fly on an airplane.

Nowadays, they don’t even dress up to go to church or fly.................


38 posted on 11/28/2023 7:29:14 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Jane Long

Airlines are now the ‘Greyhound Buses’ of the sky...............


39 posted on 11/28/2023 7:30:52 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Ex-Con777

I would rather see a dress code for passengers.
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Absent any sort of sensible dress code I think you will soon be seeing passengers barefooted, shirtless, in thongs, wearing only their underwear, etc. demanding to board commercial aircraft.


40 posted on 11/28/2023 7:33:37 AM PST by fortes fortuna juvat (Biden left our troops to die in Afghanistan and our military equipment to our enemy. Never forget.)
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