Sources tells CBS 2’s Marcia Kramer that police have completed interviews with 70 percent of the passengers aboard Monday’s bizarre JetBlue flight at Kennedy Airport and all of them said they never saw flight attendant Steven Slater get hit in the head with a piece of luggage or argue with anyone.
This flies in the face of what Slater has said led to his now-infamous meltdown...
Meanwhile, a pair of Pittsburgh women aboard a JetBlue flight said Slater was rude to passengers and instigated the confrontation that resulted in his spectacular exit.
Marjorie Briskin, 53, told The Wall Street Journal that Slater blurted out an expletive during an otherwise normal conversation with a passenger over luggage.
Another woman, 25-year-old Lauren Dominijanni, told the Journal that Slater was immediately rude to her. She said he “rolled his eyes at me” when she asked for a wipe to clean up coffee someone spilled on her seat.
The paper quoted Briskin as saying that Slater’s conversation about luggage with the as-yet unidentified passenger was normal but turned nasty after Slater said the expletive.
“I didn’t think she was rude in the least,” Briskin said, according to the paper. “It really blew my mind. It was so inappropriate.”
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He admits that pulling the plug on his career – and the now infamous emergency slide – has crossed his mind before.
“Oh, of course I’ve thought about it,” he said with a smile. “For 20 years I’ve thought about it, but you never think you’re gonna do it!”
Prosecutors said the emergency escape slide deploys at 3,000 pounds of pressure per square inch and "causes a risk of serious physical injury or death if it strikes people working under the aircraft." They also said the cost to replace the escape slide is $25,000, according to Jet Blue security.
Who knows?
