Flight crew boots passenger who hooted at female flight attendant
COURTESY ALASKA AIRLINES
A man was removed from an Alaska Airlines flight, Sunday, after he heckled a flight attendant, calling out “sexy!” as she demonstrated how to use a life vest.
Alaska Airlines removed a man from a plane after he heckled a female flight attendant, calling out “sexy!” as she demonstrated how to use a life vest.
The incident occurred Sunday before a flight from Seattle to Burbank, California, Alaska spokeswoman Ann Zaninovich said today.
Zaninovich provided few details other than to say that the airline stood behind the decision of the crew to remove the man from the flight. She also said an account of the incident posted on Facebook was accurate.
In that post, Amber D. Nelson of suburban Los Angeles said a man in the row behind her began calling out to the flight attendant demonstrating the life vest. After the attendant asked the man to be respectful, he answered “C’mon, I’m just playing with you!” Nelson wrote.
As the man was escorted off the plane, he objected that he hadn’t done anything wrong, according to Nelson, who did not immediately respond to an attempt to contact her.
Nelson praised Alaska for supporting the crew “and those of us on board who were demeaned by another passenger’s juvenile and exceedingly disrespectful behavior.”
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Airline employees have broad latitude to remove passengers, who are often allowed to board a later flight. Alaska did not identify the passenger or say whether he took a later flight.
People who commented on Nelson’s post took both sides, with some applauding the airline and others saying the crew overreacted.
51 responses to “Flight crew boots passenger who hooted at female flight attendant”
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Good for Alaska. Maybe Trump will let him fly on his jet!
Glad they throw subhumans out.
we see how baised the Media is. Most if all have not condemned Hillary on the wiki email leaks. Hillary is all ShiBai! a 2 faced fake! Ms. Obama is gathering women to stand up to Trump. You go figure where’s Ms. Obama condemning Bill and Hillary calling Monica a BIMBO? What has Ms. Obama done for Black or Mexican people? As Sgt. Schulz would say: Hillary done nothing absolutely nothin for us Blacks!
Why not Clinton’s Lolita Express?
that passenger, Obama and his buddy Bobby Titcomb who got arrested soliciting a prostitute could all fly with Bill on the Lolita Express
when Obama retires early next year. They all can go golfing with Bobby Titcomb. FORE! Play! ON!
Keep writing about this. Even more than you have been.
It’s helping Mr. Trump’s poll numbers a lot!
…And, don’t forget the rail, Pocho, or the 2nd Amendment
I only posted the “truth”. Not accusations.
Pocho go back to Stevenson Intermediate and try and finish..
Seek help.
lol. why don’t you crawl back to the STates with Schotz.
Pocho, anytime you want to come down to Hawaiian homestead, let me know, since you feeling so froggy…
Bro I’m in Makaha! anytime
When you can’t face the truth. It gets personal, look no further than yourself before you speak. But you can’t even see the FAKE, the LIES before you in Crooked Hillary. “smh” You get computer to see all the wiki email leaks? Hillary’s camp already saying the Russians fudged it, lol. Another LIE from Crooked Lying Hillary and her camp
Hillary gets elected. Kudos to her playing a well planned campaign. I’d have to go with the flow. But I’d still not trust that LYing family, Clintons!
Bring it cuz, my ohana homestead is in Nanakuli…
Come on guys, this is virtual reality. It doesn’t need to get “real”. We all have our opinions, that’s it. This site is for fun, right?
Since when has Bill Clinton been flying commercial?
Beat me to it … only substitute Trump for BC.
Yikes, private plane? The Enviromentalist, Global Warming Al Gore be all upset hearing that.
Are you sure it wasn’t Obama?
http://www.dailywire.com/news/9897/obamas-own-lewd-tape-emerges-shows-his-erection-james-barrett
Tuta Girl – Just another rookie poster willfully spreading shibai. Really sad.
http://www.snopes.com/presidential-erection/
From the Snopes article — which btw the article didn’t say it was false, but that it was unproven: “While some viewers may argue that a bulge is visible in Obama’s pants, there’s no definitive evidence that the future president had an erection, and certainly nothing to suggest that he “flaunted” his manhood in front of female reporters.”
That’s an interesting point, but who stands like that with one leg on the seat, openly facing the people, while on the phone. Just saying.
Good for Alaska. I’ve flown Alaska many times and would not want to endure such idiot behavior as a passenger. For the Flight Attendant, that is her work environment her place of employment. It is called work place harassment / sexual harassment. The crew did the right thing.
Serious incident became a political smear tool by both party members.
Did they castrate him too?
Did you get stuck in a time warp in 1953?
It’s 2016. Grow up.
No only Klastri
hooted?
who uses that word anymore.
How about “HUBBA HUBBA”?
Tammy? From the movie ‘Tammy and the Bachelor ‘! ” the old owl hoots to the dove…”
lol!
Its locker room talk right?
LOL…
Judging by the headline I was expecting to read that the guy went “Who! Who!”
As a former airline employee, I tip my hat to Alaskan for standing up for the flight attendant. The safety briefing can be the most important moment in the trip if there is trouble later, and no one should ever be allowed to interfere with that briefing!
The Chumps supporters making a joke of a very serious occurrence. Then again it makes sense since they have a joke for a candidate.
Kudos, well,said….
“As the man was escorted off the plane, he objected that he didn’t do anything wrong.” Yeah you did. You opened your mouth. Bet next time you’re on a plane, you going shut up and listen.
Nipped it in the bud, good job!
No kidding! Can you imagine how obnoxious he would have been after a couple of drinks?
I was thinking that maybe he’d already had a few in the airport bar….
Sounds like an over-reaction to me. Sure the guy was out of line and discourteous. But to deplane him and delay the flight?
But I would think there are other measures that could have been taken rather than inconvenience a plane load of passengers with late departure so that the crew could deplane this boor. I hate to say this, but there probably is a lawsuit here.
No there is not. Aviation policy and law, hold great deference to the airlines to promote both safety and civility. In the very best of fact patterns, it is an entirely uphill battle to wins these sorts of cases with airlines.
Don’t think there’s ground for a lawsuit. He wasn’t discriminated against, he broke the rules, so off he goes. Much better for passengers to be inconvenienced by a delay early-on than to have to turn around mid-flight. If I was on that plane, the last thing I’d want is to be subjected to boorish behavior for hours.
If a passenger starts off that way, it would probably get worse as the flight went on.
Safety and security are the biggest concerns for a flight crew-best to prevent a bad situation.
No lawsuit here.
Put him on the no fly list
All the airlines should have a zero tolerance policy for obnoxious and disruptive behavior also the airlines should restrict or do way with serving alcoholic beverages as this seems to cause a lot behavior problems……
I was hoping they showed a pic of the stewardess. Was she a hottie?
you’re off the plane too.