A passenger who rudely defied flight attendant instructions and constantly interrupted the safety video was booted from his American Airlines flight. Who tells a flight attendant to “shut up” while she is performing the safety briefing?

Passenger Tells Flight Attendant To “Shut Up” During Safety Demo, Forcing American Airlines Plane Returns To Gate To Dump Him

As the safety demonstration began, an American Airlines passenger continued using his phone, loudly told the flight attendant to “shut up,” and then complained he couldn’t hear the briefing, even though he was the one speaking over the very briefing he claimed he could not hear! The result? The aircraft returned to the gate. But not before the flight attendant pleaded with him to behave and gave him so much rope than was necessary to hang himself…

Here’s the video:

 

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Note the video begins with “shut up” so we don’t even know the full extent of the bad behavior that led to the passenger starting to record video in the place.

I’m not faulting the flight attendant at all for trying to be so accommodating (After all, even returning to the gate briefly to dump this loser could have meant a much later arrival and many missed connections), but after such poor behavior, I don’t think a verbal “yes” that he was going to behave would have been sufficient. His conduct showed that he was not fit to fly and I hope that American Airlines permanently bans him. His disgusting attitude and condescending disrespect toward flight attendants is a red flag sufficient to say, “Sorry, you get no second chance.”

Was this guy drugged up or did he really think being so rude to a flight attendant and interrupting a safety briefing would end well for him?

Of course, the guy’s seamates did benefit from this when they wound up with an open middle seat…

CONCLUSION

Safety briefings aren’t optional…they’re FAA-required and disrupting them isn’t just rude…it’s reckless. If you can’t listen, you shouldn’t fly. It appears to me that American Airlines handled this incident very well and the flight attendant should be lauded for showing such extreme patience (though she probably was far too patient) with this loser of a passenger.

What punishment should this passenger receive for his bad conduct?

image: @jaycrenshaw/ Instagram // hat tip: View From The Wing

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