PLANE SILLY
Delta flight attendant kicks off EIGHT passengers after one gives ‘attitude’ about putting phone on airplane mode
The passenger told the staff member she was holding the flight up before take off at Fort Wayne airport in Indiana, USA
ASTONISHING footage shows an air steward kicking eight passengers off a plane for giving her “attitude” after one failed to activate her phone’s flight mode.
The unnamed Delta Airlines attendant was filmed arguing with Robyn Rodgers, a DJ from New York, before the plane took off from Fort Wayne airport in Indiana on June 23.
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Other passengers then spoke up for Robyn who claimed she had switched her device off.
The musician can be heard telling the cabin crew member that she was holding up the flight while later claiming the woman stood over her “menacingly”.
In the clip, the staff member said: “I know what I heard. I am not going to argue with you.
“There's no need for arguing. Crew instructions means crew instructions.”
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When Robyn continues to argue that she had switched her device off, the flight attendant said: “Now you have. Is it in airplane mode?”
Ryan Miller, another passenger, defended the DJ, adding: “I was right next to her.”
However, the airline employee appeared to threaten Miller, by saying: “Would you like to stay too?”
She then said she had “zero tolerance” for the “attitude” of the customers.
Robyn wrote: “As I was swiping to it, the attendant menacingly stood over me with her arms folded waiting for me to do it.
“I told her, ‘I know how to turn on airplane mode, you don’t have to stand over me.’ She became agitated and said, ‘If you’re gonna act like that, we can go back to the gate and you can get off.’”
Rodgers said the flight attendant then “stormed” to the front of the plane and returned to tell her that she would be heading back to the gate.
“She then accused me of not turning on airplane after being ‘told to do so several times,’” Rodgers’ post continued. “She only asked me once.”
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The plane then returned to the gate, at which point the flight attendant directed an officer to remove Rodgers and other passengers
In the final moments of the clip, Robyn and another woman are seen rowing with airport staff after they have been thrown off the flight and forced to stay overnight in Indiana.
Robyn points her camera towards another man who had a child who was also thrown off the flight.
Some Instagram users said they thought race played a role in the incident, alleging the staff member's response as “racist,” condescending and deplorable.
“This is straight bully tactics on the flight attendant’s part,” one user wrote. “You complied, other passengers vouched for you calmly, yet she wield her big stick across all of you", reports .
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Robyn wrote: “I want to acknowledge because I am painfully aware of the serious and profoundly heartbreaking injustices/events happening in our world and communities, I have grappled with sharing my experience.
“It seems small in the face of those things. But the micro is important and little things that go unchecked spiral.”
A Delta spokesman told the Detroit Free Press that the connecting flight was being operated by SkyWest Airlines.
SkyWest Airlines spokeswoman told WGCL that reps are now looking into the allegations of discrimination aboard the Delta Connection regional flight.
“We are disappointed that our customers had this experience and are working with our partner Delta Connection to follow up directly with the customers involved,” the statement read.
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