A woman has been charged with assault and interfering with the performance of the duties of the flight attendant after confronting then attacking a pair of flight attendants on an American Airlines flight to New York City.
Woman Attacks American Airlines Flight Attendant, Tries To Undress Her, After Her Colleague Fails To Collect Trash
The incident occurred late on Saturday aboard American Airlines Flight 1357 from Miami (MIA) to New York (JFK). The flight had been delayed, departing shortly before midnight and not due into JFK until after 2:00am.
According to the criminal complaint, 28-year-old Chenasia Campbell, an unemployed New Yorker, rose from her seat to confront a flight attendant after she failed to collect her trash.
Campbell walked to the rear galley and began yelling at the flight attendant. Another flight attendant stepped in to try to diffuse the situation, but exacerbated it after Campbell claimed the intervening flight attendant pushed her. Campbell then responded by striking the intervening flight attendant with a closed fit and pulling her hair.
She turned to walk away, got into a verbal altercation with another passenger, then turned back to the second flight attendant and struck her again. Apparently, Campbell also tried to remove the flight attendant’s uniform.
While both were wrestling on the ground, an off-duty NYPD police officer intervened and placed Campbell in restraints. The crew asked the captain to divert, but he refused and the flight continued to New York City. Law enforcement officials met the flight and Campbell was escorted off and arrested.
The flight attendant sustained damages including:
- sustained scrapes to the arm and cheek
- bruises to the forehead and leg
- strained neck
Yesterday she appeared in a Brooklyn court and was released on $15,000 bail. Her public defender claims she is undergoing mental health treatment in a state-run facility.
American Airlines later said “a customer who refused to comply with the federal face mask requirement assaulted a crew member while in flight.” However, the criminal complaint makes no mention of a mask violation and American Airlines has refused to clarify beyond its brief statement.
CONCLUSION
Some of you might try to spin this in favor of the defendant. After all, if her trash was allegedly collected, this would not have happened. If the other flight attendant had not pushed her, she would not have had to defend herself. Oh, please. Even if she did get pushed first, attacking with closed fist punches is not a proportionate response.
I’ll spare the jokes about setting low expectations on American Airlines and not being disappointed, because it simply isn’t funny to be so gruesomely attacked.
image: American Airlines
No sympathies for Ms. Campbell. In the wise words of Benjamin Franklin, “If you’re gonna act like a b*tch then you’ll be treated like one.”
Every single plane out of MIA is basically a flying trash can.
Thank you so much, I’m going straight to hell!
Don’t see a problem here as all that was needed was to haul away the trash. The LEOs in New York saw that it was done. The problem was resolved – end of discussion.
you always pick the classiest stories
Wait till you see what’s next!
Good one…
I wonder who posted $15k bail? This was an event that ended with best possible outcome. Great job by NYPD off duty officer. I am sure the Port Police got a good briefing from him and proper charges were filed. I hope the F/A’s can go after Campell in civil court. Captain made good choice pressing on to destination once the threat was contained. A night at Rikers or Bellview may calm her down. In any event she should go on the national do not fly list. No crew should EVER have to see her again. Greyhound gets her back.
Her mother posted the bail.
This is just more mental health pornography.
You can thank Doug Parker for the deterioration of service and morale at AA. Once a great carrier, it is well on its way to becoming the same dismal airline that US Airways became under Parker.
How much do I have to despise the lazy, unionized, power-drunk FAs that my sympathy gravitates to the trashy passenger?
American airlines is the worst airlines. If the flight attendants didn’t act like they are the only people that should get any respect, it would be nice. Why couldn’t the attendant just get the garbage? To lazy? If you look at a flight attendant sideways all they have to say is you said something, that you didn’t and you go to jail. It is a federal offense. Flight attendants have so much power it is so out of control. Pregnant woman wants a cup of water and gets denied. She kicks up a fuss. I am surprised that they didn’t throw her in jail. Common sense people.
wow. some real hate here for American and the flight attendants. I actually flew them more last year than I ever thought I would. never a problem and I ran into mostly caring and professional people in the air and on the ground. I’m surprise at the vitriol in these comments. oh well,,,,,
it’s like there was an assumption here that the attendant purposely avoided the trash. regardless, this is an appropriate response. mental is or just bad person, 15 thousand is pretty for a bond is pretty cheap, isn’t it?
And of course this was ex-MIA.
The flight attendant probably wasnt wearing gloves at the moment, and went to the back to get some. Even if she wasnt, theres no reason for attacking anyone ever! If the trash was on fire, was making racist comments, or was inappropriately touching you, i could see yelling at someone. Since this is not the case, F-ing sit with it for a few more minutes! Flight attendants cant run away..theyre in the same plane as you are!