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Thursday, January 24, 2019
United Airlines Sued Passenger Smells Cover-Up Over Shattered 767 Windshield
Friday, October 26, 2018
Drunk White JetBlue Passenger Calls Out for NAACP While Being Subdued
We don"t hear so often from Utah Man, but we sure do hear a lot of airplane nightmares.
Thankfully, this intoxicated troublemaker didn"t make it past boarding before being arrested for assaulting a JetBlue employee.
Unfortunately, his 8-year-old son watched as his white father screamed obscenities and called out for the NAACP.
It will surprise no one to learn that this went down in Florida.
Utah man Brandon Strong was at the Orlando International Airport when, according to police, he began harassing a woman.
When that alleged verbal harassment escalated to the point of him calling the woman a "c–t," JetBlue stepped in.
JetBlue employees informed him that he would not be permitted to board the flight.
According to a sworn statement by one of those employees, this is when Strong got physical.
Strong allegedly became physically confrontational
"I explained to him that he could not travel and asked for his son," the JetBlue employee writes.
"At that point," the affidavit continues. "He pressed his iPad against my chest and pushed me."
The employee writes: "I pushed his hands away from my chest, and he attempted to grab me."
"We wrestled," the affidavit says. "And myself and a couple other customers tried to restrain him."
The operative word there is that they tried to restrain the man.
Police say that there were multiple 911 calls about the incident.
(It turns out that people really take notice when you"re violent at an airport — who knew?)
According to Officer Jason Hajek"s affidavit, Strong was very obviously intoxicated.
Hajek wrote that he "could detect the strong odor of the impurities of alcohol on his breath."
Brandon Strong allegedly continued to resist, and was warned that he would be subdued.
Strong was warned that he might be met with a "chemical spray."
Hajek writes that, with a crowd surrounding him, he fired "one short burst" of pepper spray at Strong.
Pepper spray is a potent chemical weapon, and the Fire Department was called to offer treatment to those in the crowd who were impacted.
During the scuffle, Strong yelled "Where is the NAACP?!"
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is America"s oldest civil rights organization.
While the NAACP has addressed many topics, including excessive force by police, it is unclear why Strong felt that the organization was relevant.
For one thing, this wasn"t a beating for jaywalking. This appears to have been a case of police putting a stop to his behavior.
For another thing, Brandon Strong is a 45-year-old white man.
Anyway, Strong was arrested for disorderly intoxication, resisting officers, and assaulting police.
On a funny note, Strong referred to the initial JetBlue employee as "Paul Bart Mall Cop."
Unlike the film by that name, that is objectively funny.
On a considerably less funny note, the man"s 8-year-old son witnessed this. One can only imagine what else he has seen from this man.
JetBlue looked after the boy and his mother was contacted and informed that he would be transported to Utah.
Honestly, from the looks of this video, this situation might have been a lot worse had bystanders not stepped in.
Wednesday, July 11, 2018
"Horny" Airline Passenger Allegedly Molests Seatmate
A man has been fired from his job after molesting a woman beside him, both while she slept and while she was awake, during a commercial flight.
He apparently also told a flight attendant that he was “horny” and pleasured himself.
No one enjoys flying, but this particular intercontinental flight was a nightmare for the woman seated beside him.
According to court documents, Monte Wedl was an absolute terror in the skies.
On a United Airlines flight from Hong Kong to San Francisco, he apparently downed at least three or four vodka sodas and took an Ambien.
(While it is not an excuse for any behavior that follows aside from falling asleep, please, please do not mix Ambien with alcohol)
Wedl reportedly got out of his seat told an attendant, Eva Yu, that he missed his wife and was “horny.”
That is, uh, literally never appropriate.
And it only got worse from there for Anne Maureen Dowling, the woman who had the unenviable position of being seated beside him.
After making is wildly inappropriate statement to the flight crew member, Wedl returned to his seat.
It was then, the documents allege, that he placed his “hand on the back of her leg near her buttock.”
Don’t … don’t do that.
Dowling “removed his hand and fell back asleep.” Sometimes, you don’t know how to respond to an awkward situation so you do your best to ignore it in the hopes that it will stop.
In Dowling’s case, it only became worse.
She woke up again to Wedl allegedly “rubbing her thigh, grabbing her butt, and attempting to reach into her pants.”
This alleged sexual assault was only repelled when she “cried ‘stop’ and he withdrew his hand from her body.”
Her outrage did not seem to mean much to Wedl, who reportedly “creepily smiled at her in response.” Yikes.
That should have never happened, of course — but surely that should have been the end of this nightmare.
Unfortunately, it was not.
Later during the flight, Wedl apparently “forced his hand between Dowling’s body and her own hand.”
It sounds like she was trying to protect her body with her hands, to no avail.
“He then,” the documents describe. “Firmly began rubbing her vagina through her clothes.”
No!!
As if to make matters somehow worse than they already were, Wedl was allegedly “rapidly masturbating underneath his blanket” at the same time.
As we mentioned, Wedl was fired from his job. He was a commercial pilot for FedEx.
She was eventually moved, but she says that a flight attendant initially told her that it would not be possible, and suggested that she instead talk to Wendl about his behavior.
Upon the plane’s landing, Dowling immediately reported what had happened to law enforcement and to the airline.
Wendl was acquitted. Now that the criminal case has ended, Dowling is moving forward with a lawsuit against United.
This took place in business class, by the way. Dowling had been upgraded at the beginning of the flight.
Now she has PTSD, and is seeking $ 75,000 in damages from both United and Wedl.
Everyone is scared of flying, but sometimes the most unpleasant experiences during flights come from fellow passengers and not the airplane.
People can be monsters.
Thursday, June 14, 2018
Lil Scrappy"s Passenger in Car Accident Lawyers Up
Lil Scrappy’s friend, Ca$ ino Roulette, got the worst of it when they got into that horrific car accident in Florida earlier this month, and now he’s preparing to sue over his extensive injuries … TMZ has learned. Ca$ ino’s attorney, Brett L.…
Wednesday, May 23, 2018
Drunk Airline Passenger Pees on Seat, Gets Arrested
Here’s something different for a change:
It’s a story about an airline passenger sucking, as opposed to yet another story about an airline itself sucking.
Last Thursday, a man named Michael A. Haag was on board a Frontier Airlines flight from Denver to Charleston.
So far, so normal, right?
Plenty of men fly on a daily basis from this lovely Colorado city to this historic South Carolina destination.
About two hours into the journey, however, Haag reportedly granted the woman seated next to him, much to her understandable horror and chagrin.
Said a fellow passenger, recounting what transpired to a local Fox affiliate in Denver:
“I hear a woman scream, if this man f-cking touches me one more time I’ll f-cking kill him.”
The fellow passenger (who identified herself as “Emilu” added that the 45-year old Haag seemed “extremely intoxicated” and “out of his mind,” while the woman who was groped said she witnessed him down two double shots of vodka on the flight.
YIKES.
Haag also allegedly verbally assaulted another woman, asking her variouspersonal questions about her sexual habits.
After flight attendants learned of Haag’s behavior, they reassigned him, moving him to the back of the plane where there was an empty row of seats.
Out of sight, therefore, and out of mind?
Not quite, unfortunately.
It actually got far more gross and disgusting from there.
Haag apparently went ahead and started urinated on the seat in front of him.
He just whipped out his penis and relieved himself, right then and there.
(It could have been worse, we guess, he could have made like this woman and pooped on the floor.)
“I scream, ‘He’s f-cking peeing. He’s peeing. Oh my God,"” Emily told Fox, adding:
“And the flight attendant doesn’t even acknowledge him at first. [The attendant] acknowledges me and says you need to calm down and stop cursing.”
Thankfully, attention eventually turned to Haag, who was taken away from the airport gate in handcuffs and charged with interfering with flight crew, as well as and indecent exposure.
He was later released on $ 25,000 bond, according to Fox 31.
Emily wasn’t thrilled with the response of Frontier, saying someone should have been keeping a closer eye on Haag after he was moved.
In response to her complaint, the airline waived her bag fee and gifted her a $ 200 Frontier voucher.
Frontier has since released a statement confirming that the carrier is “aware of the situation” and “working with the appropriate authorities,” concluding:
“Frontier has zero tolerance for behavior that affects the safety of our passengers and crew. We are supporting authorities in their investigation.”
Tuesday, April 17, 2018
Southwest Flight Makes Emergency Landing, Passenger Tweets CRAZY Details
WARNING TO ALL READERS:
You may not want to read the rest of this post if you ever want to fly in an airplane ever again…
On Tuesday afternoon, a Southwest Airlines flight en route from LaGuardia Airport in New York to Dallas made an emergency landing in Philadelphia after one of the engines blew and a passenger got nearly sucked out of a window as a result.
As confirmed by a map via FlightAware, Southwest Flight 1380 was headed west/southwest when it took a sharp turn east, back towards Philadelphia.
Accounts from passengers on board have confirmed that an engine on the left side of the plane exploded mid-flight, causing shrapnel to fly across the aisle.
Incredibly, only one person was injured from the blast and he/she was tended to by medical personnel aboard the aircraft.
“We are aware that Southwest flight #1380 from New York La Guardia (LGA) to Dallas Love Field (DAL) has diverted to Philadelphia International Airport (PHL),” said Southwest in a statement, adding:
“We are in the process of transporting Customers and Crew into the terminal. The aircraft, a Boeing 737-700, has 143 Customers and five Crewmembers onboard.
“We are in the process of gathering more information.
“Safety is always our top priority at Southwest Airlines, and we are working diligently to support our Customers and Crews at this time.”
As news continues to break regarding exactly what happened, passengers have started to share photos from the plane on social media.
For example, Kristopher Johnson snapped the picture below and shared it to Twitter, thanking the Southwest crew “for a great job getting us to the ground safely after losing in engine.”
Marty Martinez, meanwhile, shared a Facebook live video that depicts him with an oxygen mask on.
“Something is wrong with our plane! It appears we are going down! Emergency landing!!” he says in the footage.
Martinez later talked to CBS News after the plane had landed in Philadelphia, explaining something went wrong about a half hour into the trip.
“All of a sudden, we heard an explosion and I come to find out that the engine exploded on the left side of the plane,” he said.
“That explosion caused one of the windows to explode in row 17 of the plane, which was just two aisles over from me.”
Added Martinez:
“I thought I was cataloging the last moments of my existence. It was absolutely terrifying.”
Then there was Todd Baur, the father of one passenger onboard, who told NBC Philadelphia that a woman was nearly sucked out of the broken window.
She “was partially … was drawn out towards the out of the plane” and “was pulled back in by other passengers,” Baur said, adding that she was taken to a hospital for evaluation.
Philadelphia Airport has Tweeted that passengers should expect delays following an order (since lifted) from the Federal Aviation Administration that had been preventing flights en route to Philadelphia from taking off.
Crazy, right?
While this near-catastrophe might scare some folks away some flying, it may actually encourage others to feel even safer in the sky.
After all… an engine actually blew up and the plane was still able to land safely, with no fatalities.
Pretty amazing, no?
UPDATE: The FAA has issued its statement on what happened to Southwest flight 1380.
It reads as follows:
Southwest Airlines Flight 1380 landed at Philadelphia International Airport this morning after the crew reported damage to one of the aircraft’s engines, as well as the fuselage and at least one window.
The aircraft, which departed from New York LaGuardia Airport, diverted to Philadelphia, where it landed at 11:20 a.m. Eastern.
Passengers exited the aircraft using air stairs. Please contact local emergency response officials for information on the condition of the passengers.
The FAA is investigating the incident and the National Transportation Safety Board has been notified. The NTSB will be in charge of the investigation.
Monday, March 12, 2018
NYC Helicopter Passenger Posted Takeoff Video Minutes Before Crash
One of the passengers who died on that helicopter that crashed into NYC’s East River captured the aircraft’s takeoff and posted it moments before they went down. Trevor Cadigan (closest to camera) was recording video as the Eurocopter AS350 lifted…
Monday, February 19, 2018
Flight Makes Emergency Landing Due to Passenger Who Won"t Stop Farting
Passenger 57?
More like Flatulence 57, folks!
Don’t worry. This genius joke will make a lot more sense in just a few moments…
According to multiple news outlets (who apparently lacked a lot of hard news to report on over the weekend), a Transavia Airlines pilot was forced to make an emergency landing on a flight from Dubai to Amsterdam Schiphol several days ago.
The reason for said emergency landing?
Two female passengers on board the plane continually asked another passenger to please stop passing gas.
When this third passenger refused to do so, a loud argument broke out and gave the pilot no choice but to quell the smelly chaos by cutting the trip short.
Following a warning from crew members that did not to prevent the farting or the subsequent fighting, the plane was diverted to Vienna Airport.
Police boarded the plane after it landed and removed two women and two men that the pilot reported as “passengers on the rampage,” Metro reports.
This publication adds that the two women were sisters and that authorities brought a dog on board as well, presumably because canines have an especially great senses of smell.
And we guess such an ability would come in handy during this sort of situation.
“We had no idea who these boys were, we just had the bad luck to be in the same row and we didn’t do anything,” said Nora Lacchab, one of the women.
She added:
“All I will say is that the crew were really provocative and stirred things up.”
She and her sibling are thinking about filing a lawsuit against the airline.
All four passengers were released from police custody without being charged.
However, all have been banned from flying Transavia Airlines ever again.
Said the company in a statement:
“Our crew must ensure a safe flight. When passengers pose risks, they immediately intervene. Our people are trained for that.
“They know very well where the boundaries are. Transavia is therefore square behind the cabin crew and the pilots.”
Makes sense to us.
The thing is, we still don’t know the name of the person who actually dealt the farts.
In our experience, however, it was likely the same person who smelt them.
Tuesday, October 17, 2017
United Airlines, 2 Officers Fired in Violent Passenger Removal
The officers who violently dragged a passenger off a United Airlines flight have been canned and a third has resigned … 6 months after the violent incident was caught on video. The Chicago Dept. of Aviation on Tuesday released a report outlining…
Monday, August 28, 2017
"Straight Outta Compton" Star Jason Mitchell Threatens to "Smack the F*** Outta" Passenger
“Straight Outta Compton” star Jason Mitchell’s insane meltdown was ignited by an eavesdropping passenger — who was in the first class seat … Jason wanted so badly. TMZ obtained new video of the crazy scene which shows Mitchell actually sitting…
Saturday, August 12, 2017
Uber Sued After Driver Allegedly Ambushes Passenger at Home With Metal Rod
Uber is being sued after one of its driver’s allegedly beat up a passenger and then later showed up at his home to beat the dude up again, this time with a metal rod. David Riordan says he ordered the Uber ride home from a 2016 Christmas party in…
Saturday, July 15, 2017
Singer Jacquees Kicked Off Delta Flight, Beefs with Passenger On Way Out
Jacquees — the singer known for his hit, “B.E.D.” — was ordered to G.T.F.O. a Delta flight leaving Atlanta, and as he was being escorted off … he got into it with a fellow passenger. TMZ obtained video of Jacquees getting the ole heave ho. A…
Tuesday, June 13, 2017
Delta Airlines Sued for Needle Prick That Forced Passenger to Get HIV Testing
Delta Airlines missed a needle that was left in a seat pocket, and an unsuspecting guest got stuck by it — leading to a year of HIV testing … according to a lawsuit. In docs, Gabriel Ybarra says he was flying from LAX to Atlanta…
Tuesday, June 6, 2017
U.S. Marine Vet"s Lab Attacks Passenger on Delta Flight
A chocolate lab viciously attacked a passenger on a Delta flight, leaving the victim with severe facial injuries and the dog’s owner — a U.S. Marine vet — badly shaken. The incident occurred Sunday at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in…
Wednesday, May 3, 2017
Nippon Airways Fist Fight Passenger Says Aggressor was Crazy with Possible PTSD Symptom (VIDEO)
The Nippon Airways passenger who went nuts on a flight may have been suffering from PTSD … so claims the former Marine who kicked his ass. Ryan Humphreys – the passenger who won the brawl — tells us the aggressor was crazy talking about…
Sunday, April 30, 2017
Delta Pilot Hit Passenger to Release Choke Hold (VIDEO)
The Delta pilot who smacked a passenger and then walked away delivered the punch to get the woman to release a choke hold she had on the woman she was fighting … at least that’s what the airline concluded. When you watch the video, it’s…
Thursday, April 27, 2017
Delta Boots Passenger Off Flight for Using the Bathroom
In the wake of United Airlines dragging a paying passenger off its flight this month and creating the greatest PR disaster in aviation history, it’s important to remember something:
DELTA SUCKS, TOO!
We’re not just saying that. Scroll down for proof…
On April 18, a man named Kima Hamilton was on board a flight from Atlanta, Georgia to Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
The plane had taxied to the runway and passengers were told it was third in line to take off. So they expected to be airborne very soon.
But then 30 minutes went by and the plane remained on the runway.
Then, another 90 minutes passed.
Hamilton, who had previously been told to remain in his seat when he asked to use the bathroom, simply could not hold it any longer.
He got up. He peeed. And he returned to his seat.
And that’s when the trouble started.
“The pilot came on and said, ‘Ladies and gentlemen, I’m sorry for the inconvenience but we have to return to the gate and remove a passenger,’” Hamilton told Milwaukee’s Journal Sentinel, adding:
“It escalated to that point that fast.”
Here is a video shot by a fellow passenger on board the flight, as a Delta employee asked Hamilton to come with him… off the plane:
As you can see, Hamilton remains very calm throughout the confrontation.
He doesn’t understand how his actions could possibly constitute dismissal from the aircraft and he refuses to get up and leave, not when he:
- Paid for his seat.
- Had to return home to oversee a field trip for fourth, fifth and sixth graders.
In the above clip, you can clearly hear Hamilton apologize and explaining that he had an “emergency,” stating simply in the face of getting the boot:
“I’m not really clear on why I’m being asked to leave this plane. I purchased this ticket, I had an emergency. I had to pee.
“I tried to hold it the first time and you said I absolutely couldn’t and I’m being kicked off the plane?”
After succeeding in holding his ground against the first Delta employee, a second approached Hamilton and tried to reason with him.
You can watch this back and forth below:
Eventually, Hamilton complied and was removed from the airplane.
No force was used against him.
But Hamilton told local ABC affiliate WISN that FBI agents greeted him after he stepped off the plane.
FBI agents! Because he got up to use the bathroom while the plane was on the ground!
“[An agent] said he came to arrest me, but realized after our conversation, realized that some of the language that was associated with my name wasn’t accurate,” Hamilton told the station.
In the end, Hamilton was partially refunded for his Delta ticket, says he was forced to buy a ticket for a Southwest flight that was three times the price to get back to his family in Milwaukee.
Moreover, all the passengers were forced to leave the plane and then get back on it after this incident, causing them to be over an hour and a half late to their destination.
Said Delta in a statement:
Our flight crews are extensively trained to ensure the safety and security of all customers.
It is imperative that passengers comply with crew instructions during all phases of flight, especially at the critical points of takeoff and landing.
Sure.
Except, in this case, the plane wasn’t taking off or landing.
You could argue this is even more ridiculous than the notorious United Airlines incident; or at least that the reason for kicking Hamilton off the flight was more ridiculous.
At least United had overbooked its plane. It legitimately had to make room for its employees.
But this was an example of a passenger who just REALLY had to pee. And this was how Delta decided to treat him.
We wonder: did Hamilton’s fellow passengers feel more safe and more secure as a result?
Thursday, April 13, 2017
TMZ Live: United Airlines Passenger: Blockbuster News Conference
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United Passenger David Dao Not Suing Yet, Suffered Concussion and Major Facial Injuries (VIDEO)
Dr. David Dao and his attorneys aren’t suing United or the City of Chicago … YET, but they put intense pressure on them with a blockbuster news conference where they revealed Dao’s injuries. Attorney Tom Demetrio said, “We’re not ready…
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