The passenger was told to get off the American Airlines plane after she rudely clashed with a flight attendant and claimed that she had been harassed by the hostess
A rude passenger found out what happened when flight attendants are told to “shut up.”
An American Airlines passenger was delivered a dose of karma after getting into an argument with a flight attendant during a safety demonstration. In a video shared to social media, a woman could be heard telling the flight attendant “she should shut up” during the flight from Costa Rica to Dallas, Texas.
The flight attendant then posed a frank question to the rude passenger, asking: “Do you want to get off the plane?” Her slap down continued, adding: “Because I don’t feel comfortable with you if you’re not going to follow instructions.”
The viral clip showed the moment when the air hostess signalled her colleagues to turn stop the address. The passenger was heard saying during the back-and-forth: “I can’t hear you.”
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“You’re not on my list as someone who can’t hear,” she said. “So, I’m going to ask the pilot to remove you because you’re not complying.”
The footage, uploaded to Instagram with the caption “ever wonder what happens if you tell a flight attendant to shut up?”, showed the passenger being called out for not switching her phone off. The clip then cut out when the passenger agreed to comply with orders.
But the situation did not last long with the woman claiming she was being harassed by the air hostess. She was later escorted off the plane.
Jay Crenshaw, who had been sitting next to the woman and saw the ordeal unfold, told The New York Post an “empty middle seat is a win for me.” He added: “She was having a bad morning and was obviously disturbed or irritated about something she was on the phone talking about.”
“The flight attendant might’ve caught a stray, I think the passenger knows she was wrong. She mentioned that she also lost her phone and had to borrow one,” he continued.
Crenshaw said he was “definitely not excusing her behaviour.” He added: “We’ve all had bad days and have said bad things because of it, but we weren’t filmed. I hope people can remember this and give her a bit of grace.”
The Mirror has contacted American Airlines for comment.
According to the Association of Flight Attendants CWA, a US-based flight attendant union, in 2021, 85 per cent of cabin crew dealt with unruly passengers. It added that nearly one in five experienced physical incidents over the same period.