Posted on 03/29/2009 11:09:10 AM PDT by Chet 99
Woman Starts Brawl On Flight Bound For Detroit
POSTED: Saturday, March 28, 2009
UPDATED: 11:14 pm EDT March 28, 2009
DETROIT, Mich. -- Southwest Flight 1402 from Phoenix, bound to Detroit, was delayed Saturday and airline officials said one woman was to blame.
A company representative said a woman became unruly and began acting erratically, fighting with passengers and crew alike.
Travelers walked off the flight at Metro Airport, around 7:30 p.m., shaken and relieved their in-flight ordeal was over.
“We had to pretty much restrain her because she started hitting some of the passengers,” said witness Aaron Nichols.
Other witnesses on the flight told Local 4 the woman was in line to use the restroom when a man bumped into her.
“She just started going off on him. She accused him of trying to touch her and she just started slapping him in the face, going crazy on him,” said passenger Shelly Salemassi.
“She hit him in the head twice and he had no clue what was going on,” said witness Bill Miller.
A handful of passengers jumped up to helped the shocked man and restrained the woman to her seat, but she was having none of that.
“Then she tried to go after the stewardess. Salemassi said, “It took 5 or 6 guys to detain her after that. I don’t know what was wrong with her.”
“If the guys weren’t there, if all of us didn’t helped her, the stewardesses would have had a real problem. She was rather large woman,” said passenger Paul Lechner, ”She definitely had a...problem. She was not able to focus, and when she did, you could see her eyes change. It was not a good situation all the way around.”
The airline is not releasing the identity of the woman though passengers describe her as in her 60’s.
Shortly after the fight the crew decided to divert the plane and remove the woman.
The pilot made an emergency landing at Denver International Airport.
Passengers remained on the plane, the woman was removed, and the plane left without her.
The woman was in federal custody in Denver Saturday evening and potentially faces federal charges for disrupting the flight.
Where were Reeves and Conyers at the time in question?
You know the drill on these stories... if it involves a politician and there's no party identification ... bzzz... a Democrat.... and when it involves a crime and there's no description of the assailant....
I would have punched her lights out
I’d put up a fight if I found out my plane was going to Detroit...
Yes, it's definitely a Detroit story.
Was it Sheila Don’t-you-know-who-I-am Jackson-Lee (D-TX)?
Not exactly what the captain meant by “You’re now free to move about the cabin.”
Ok, my guess is Cynthia McKinney.
This was an Obama voter, right?
THat picture still creeps me out real bad.
I hope they drug test her...and I hope they charge her and convict her and that the judge is a no-nonsense type who realizes that such people should be incarcerated for a long enough time to no longer be dangerous to the rest of society.
Yeah right. I'd bet no man has tried to touch that woman in a long-ass time.
In the the movie Truman they say people accept what they are presented. You know nothing but what is written in this cursory piece. For all you TV watchers from an ad for some new cop show, the veternan cop tells the rookey, and I parphrase, "sometimes the victim is the perp and the perp is the victim". Please tell the rest of us the information you have that makes you sure that this wasn't a woman who was acting in self-defense and that the crew were no more alert than you appear to be.
YOU ARE BAD, LOL.
Just joking of course, behavior like this should get a few days in the slammer or psych ward for observation for a week or so. If that were to happen to people who fail to exercise self control I bet they'd change their ways pretty quickly!
I bet it was that gal — Maxine Waters? She definitely has that wild eyed look, and I wouldn’t put this past her.
I’m gonna take that cookie away...
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