American Airlines Flight returns to Gate After Flight Attendant Rants Over PA About Crashing

[powergirl]

"An American Airlines flight moments from take-off at DFW was sent back to the gate this morning after a flight attendant began ranting over the PA system about the plane crashing and eventually had to be restrained by passengers and flight attendants, according to two passengers on the flight.

"Flight 2332, scheduled to take off for Chicago at 8:25 a.m., was back at the gate by 9:15 as police escorted the flight attendant, kicking and screaming, to one of the several police cars that surround the plane on the tarmac, passengers say.

"According to two passengers, the flight was taxiing toward take-off this morning when the flight attendant came over the PA.

"We are not taking off," she said, according to the passengers. "We're having technical difficulties. We are heading back to the gate."

"Another flight attendant came on and assured the passengers: Yes, actually, we are taking off, so buckle up. But the flight attendant up front wouldn't let up. She kept going on about technical difficulties and plane crashes, the passengers say."

"Captain," she said. "I am not responsible for crashing this plane."

http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/unfairpark/2012/03/american_airlines_flight_sent.php


The Dallas Morning News reports that :
http://thescoopblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2012/03/flight-attendant-reportedly-ca.html

"The flight attendant "came on the PA system ranting about AA bankruptcy and then telling them the plane was going to crash," said the sister of one woman on the plane.

"She was addressing the captain, telling him not to take off, that it would not be her responsibility when the plane crashes and that it was going to crash. Then she was tackled by first-class passengers, who threw her against the wall."

[Enrique]

1. Sam's Club to the rescue

Passengers started yelling, asking what was going on. Flight attendants hustled through the aisles, saying nothing. A passenger from Wisconsin, who I spoke with a few minutes ago, called 911 but was ultimately hung up on. But not long after, some guys in the back of the plane, in town for a Sam's Club company meeting, walked to the front of the plane and helped restrain the flight attendant, who the passengers are hearing was "off her meds."

[leeroysphitz]

4. People are really NOT in the mood for this type of bullshit on planes tgese days.

Off her meds or not.

[Frustratedlady]

2. Is there a full moon? eom

[BiggJawn]

5. As a matter of fact, yes. last night. eom

[KansDem]

3. That would put the kibosh on a family vacation...

Imagine going through TSA pornoscanners and groping only to have this happen. I think I'd deplane, head to the nearest car rental desk, and drive to the nearest state/national park...

[Old and In the Way]

6. I'll never forget one flight I took cross country...

it was an early morning into Boston, due to delays...one stewardess must have been drinking in the galley...by the time we were an hour out of Boston, she was on the PA cracking jokes, then rambling on incoherently. 2 of the other stewardesses finally escorted her to the back of the plane and pretty much kept her incommunicado. As we got up to exit the plane, I saw her sleeping peacefully. I always wondered how that turned out for her.

[KamaAina]

13. DUzy!!!

[powergirl]

24. Don't dis the poor flight attendant

LOL!!

[Ikonoklast]

16. She met some guy and moved to Alaska to raise a family.

Last I heard she was earning a living as a carnival barker or something like that.

[2pooped2pop]

7. Maybe she knew something was really wrong

with the plane due to shortages of funds or something. Repairs not being made or being made in a shoddy manner. Maybe they decided to fly anyway and she is actually a hero for stopping that flight and bringing attention to a dangerous situation.

This sounds just like what I would do if I were a flight attendant privy to info that I thought put everyone in extreme danger. I could not, would not, let that plane fly.

Could it be something like that? I did not click on the link for the rest of the story. Can anyone fill me in on what else it says?

[muriel_volestrangler]

8. Clicking on a link would have been so much easier than typing

"will someone else click on the link and tell me what it says?"

[2pooped2pop]

21. so would have ignoring it

but you didn't.

not real fond of clicking on blog links. Figured if someone else was going to, they could give me the info.

[Old and In the Way]

15. Stewardesses don't normally get involved in pre-flight engineering checks.

[2pooped2pop]

22. no, but if there were problems

I'm sure she would have gotten some kind of clue about it. It seems more plausible than she was just off her meds.

[CTyankee]

26. that's kinda what I was thinking...maybe she was genuinely alarmed about safety...

but it wasn't a very productive way to protest.

Hey, but then neither was Cassandra, who ended up dead...but RIGHT!

[2pooped2pop]

27. If they were taking the plane up right now

then she would have had no other way to stop it but to start screaming. If she did know there was a potential deadly problem, how could she not start kicking and screaming to stop them?

I think I would too.

Of course it is possible that she was seeing the gremlin on the outside of the plane, but maybe she knew they had rigged a repair due to funds rather than a safe repair.

[Aristus]

9. The natural end-result of flight attendants being under-paid, under-respected, & overworked.

Everyone, pilots, crew, passengers, support personnel - all are suffering while the CEO's rake in the cash brought in by the people doing the actual work.

Hope that flight attendant gets the help she needs, and the passengers recover from their scare.

[Dreamer Tatum]

11. Say, I just read a study linking flight attendant rage to CEO pay.

In the Quarterly Journal of Bullshit.

[Aristus]

17. Well, it's bullshit because one doesn't need a study in order to link the two.

If you think air travel today is like "Pan Am" on TV, you haven't flown in a while.

Nice try, though...

[Dreamer Tatum]

20. I fly every week. Odds are the attendant had a reaction to medication

or was under stress from something minor.

[Logical]

19. BS, she should be arrested. Passengers who just argue with a crew get arrested.

[RedRocco]

25. I had the same thought

if it had been one of us freaking out, we would have left in the company of air marshals and been charged with something.

[WI_DEM]

10. Wow, that's very sad--poor lady having some kind of melt down.

I hope she will get help.

[HillWilliam]

18. Wow. The maxim used to be "dinner and a floor show"

Now it's a microscopic pack of peanuts if you're lucky.

[slackmaster]

23. My cousin was on the flight. He said the flight attendant was screaming something about Ron Paul.