An Unusual Emergency Exit

A flight attendant on US carrier JetBlue this week became so infuriated with passengers ignoring his instructions that he pulled the emergency exit to leave the aircraft suddenly. 39-year-old Steven Slater was working on a flight which had just landed in New York from Pittsburgh, and told passengers to remain seated until the plane stopped moving.

However one of the travellers stood up and started taking his bags out of the overhead locker, with the crew member becoming angry when he was hit in the head by the luggage.

According to the New York Times, Slater then asked for an apology but the passenger swore at him, at which point the flight attendant “Got on the plane’s public address system and cursedout all onboard,” the paper said. “Then he activated the inflatable evacuation slide at service exit R1, launched himself 0ff the plane, an Embraer 190, ran to the employee parking lotand left the airport in a car he had parked there.” Police arrested him a short time later at his home in Queens.