Quote :

"The contretemps unfolded as JetBlue flight 1052 from Pittsburgh landed at Kennedy around noon — on time — with a full load of 100 passengers and pulled up to the gate, said the law enforcement official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the investigation was continuing but offered the following account: One passenger got out of his seat to fetch his belongings from the overhead compartment before the crew had given permission. Mr. Slater instructed the man to remain seated. The passenger defied him. Mr. Slater approached and reached the passenger just as he pulled down his luggage, which struck Mr. Slater in the head. Mr. Slater asked for an apology. The passenger instead cursed at him. Mr. Slater got on the plane’s public address system and cursed out all aboard. Then he activated the inflatable evacuation slide at service exit R1; launched himself off the plane, an Embraer 190; ran to the employee parking lot; and left the airport in a car he had parked there."

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/09/flight-attendant-activates-exit-chute-after-dispute-at-j-f-k-then-flees/?hp&apage=3#comments

8/9/2010 10:22:03 PM

haha, epic

[Edited on August 9, 2010 at 10:23 PM. Reason : but that story left out the fact that he grabbed some beer before he exited the plane]

8/9/2010 10:22:31 PM

he better not lose his job

8/9/2010 10:24:03 PM

i imagine that guy having Dan Fouts on one shoulder and Brent Musberger on the other


"Already got the inflatable slide out, Brent! Can't hold anything back now!"

8/9/2010 10:25:25 PM

the flight attendant just needed to take flight

8/9/2010 10:27:43 PM

thats the way to quit a job. hell yeah

8/9/2010 10:27:55 PM

hilarious. i can't stop laughing.

8/9/2010 10:29:09 PM

better not lose his job? He's going to fucking jail and probably for a long time

8/9/2010 10:31:48 PM

he shoulda been like

WILD CARD BITCHES!! and then jumped onto the slide

[Edited on August 9, 2010 at 10:32 PM. Reason : ]

8/9/2010 10:32:25 PM

Jesthusth christht

That guy sounded like a fag from the excerpt, then I saw the pic and knew he was fag

8/9/2010 10:33:37 PM

i mean, have you ever come across a male flight attendant that wasn't a fag?

8/9/2010 10:34:08 PM

Its like a real life:

8/9/2010 10:42:11 PM

^shut up my friend used to be flight services engineer, he's no fag

8/9/2010 10:42:19 PM

fuck you. fuck you. fuck you. you're cool. and fuck you. i'm out.

8/9/2010 10:43:40 PM

Quote :

"After a dispute with a passenger who stood to fetch his luggage too soon on a full flight just in from Pittsburgh, Mr. Slater, 38 and a career flight attendant, got on the public-address intercom and let loose a string of invective. Then, the authorities said, he pulled the lever that activates the emergency-evacuation chute and slid down, making a dramatic exit not only from the plane but, one imagines, also from his airline career. On his way out the door, he paused to grab a beer from the beverage cart. Then he ran to the employee parking lot and drove off, the authorities said. "

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/10/nyregion/10attendant.html?_r=1

8/9/2010 10:46:24 PM

8/9/2010 10:46:35 PM

If a passenger did this he would be shot.

8/9/2010 11:08:08 PM

thats fucking awesome

8/10/2010 12:41:15 AM

epic

8/10/2010 12:57:27 AM

i concur...if it played out like the story says, I wish I could have been on that plane.

8/10/2010 2:16:40 AM

maybe he just wanted to hold down the terminal

8/10/2010 2:17:06 AM

then he should not have run to the tarmac and instead gone to the ticket counter

8/10/2010 2:18:23 AM

there were claymores in the connector

8/10/2010 2:19:45 AM

he couldve hid behind the trash can in the connector if he had scrambler pro

8/10/2010 2:24:11 AM

Quote :

"Slater was later arrested at his home in Belle Harbor by Port Authority officials. Police sources said that when authorities found Slater he seemed to be in the midst having sexual relations."

A previous version of this story said "he was found in a sexual embrace with his partner"

http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local-beat/Airline-Steward-at-JFK-Pulls-Emergency-Chute-Flies-Coop-100286494.html

8/10/2010 7:53:03 AM

^Yea I thought that was the funniest part. When I read the story, I didn't catch the picture of him. But as soon as I read that last line about "In a sexual embrace with his partner" I knew.

8/10/2010 7:55:33 AM

this story is awesome

8/10/2010 7:56:27 AM

This sequence of events could have only happened with a black woman or a gay man.

[Edited on August 10, 2010 at 8:13 AM. Reason : ]

8/10/2010 8:12:52 AM

fabulous!

8/10/2010 8:29:20 AM

wow

Waterboy references ITT.

wow

8/10/2010 8:30:31 AM

Nothing cool like this ever happens when I fly

8/10/2010 9:47:39 AM

Quote :

"Slater was arrested at his home and charged with criminal mischief, reckless endangerment and criminal trespass"

Really? Go overboard much?

[Edited on August 10, 2010 at 10:04 AM. Reason : s]

8/10/2010 10:04:03 AM

Sadly, when his acting career halted upon the ending of the hit show Beverly Hills, 90210, Mr. Ziering changed his name and followed his dream of being a world traveler, becoming a flight attendant before finally settling with JetBlue Airlines.

8/10/2010 11:01:57 AM

coolest flight ever

8/10/2010 3:28:53 PM

They mentioned him this afternoon on CNBC in a segment about whether or not the american worker was at his breaking point.

8/10/2010 3:32:38 PM

Considering the circumstances, it sounds like he handled it really well.

Seriously, dude hit him in the head with some luggage and then cursed at him instead of apologizing. WTF. If you hit me in the head by accident, you gotta apologize profusely for at least a minute straight and move away from me until the stunned shock of getting smacked in the head wears off, and I'm able to comprehend that it was an accident...and not an invitation to fight.

8/10/2010 3:50:07 PM

I'll be completely honest here...

I'd have a tough time not going down that slide if it was already out.

8/10/2010 3:52:00 PM

I'm amazed a cell phone video hasn't surfaced yet.

8/10/2010 4:08:09 PM

wow, i hadn't heard about this.

8/10/2010 4:09:04 PM

sounds like it happened kinda fast, unless their argument was more than 10-20 seconds

8/10/2010 4:09:09 PM

This is pretty epic. Every time I read about it I think of the RAGE QUIT thread.

8/10/2010 5:48:43 PM

^^ From what I heard on NPR today the getting hit in the head happened earlier in the flight and he flipped out after the flight had landed.

8/10/2010 6:23:12 PM

My flight attendant this morning apparently knew this guy from commuting. She was laughing hysterically for about an hour around the crew room.

This dude is a hero and an idiot at the same time. I guess if he would have saved himself the federal offense troubles it wouldn't have been as cool though, so I'm leaning more towards hero.

8/10/2010 10:39:32 PM

Gotta love that they threw in the bf at home to remind us that he's gay.

8/10/2010 10:46:51 PM

he should have gotten on top of the propane.

8/10/2010 11:54:59 PM

^^ wtf did they use The Sims to recreate the scene?

8/11/2010 12:06:23 AM

^^^ I wish we had news like that here.

8/11/2010 9:19:22 AM