Alec Baldwin booted from flight
- 12 years ago
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Alec Baldwin's words gets him kicked off a flight.
The actor got into a dispute with an American Airlines flight attendant after he allegedly refused to stop playing a smart-phone word game.
After being removed from the Los Angeles-to-New York flight, Baldwin tweeted saying:
"Flight attendant on American reamed me out 4 playing WORDS W FRIENDS while we sat at the gate, not moving."
Once aboard another flight he tweeted again:
"Last flight w American. Where retired Catholic school gym teachers from the 1950's find jobs as flight attendants."
American Airlines has released its own version of events via its Facebook page:
"This passenger declined to turn off his cell phone when asked to do so at the appropriate time...."
"The passenger was extremely rude to the crew, calling them inappropriate names and using offensive language."
Passengers who were on the flight said the incident delayed their take-off.
SOUNDBITE: Unidentified passenger, saying (English):
"He became a little bit irate, and they had to remove him from the flight. It cost us about 45 minutes."
But fellow traveler and former world champion boxer Oscar De La Hoya, said the incident wasn't all that bad.
SOUNDBITE: Oscar De La Hoya, boxer, saying (English):
"I didn't think there was no problem. I actually felt that Alec Baldwin was turning off, turning off his devices, and he just got a little angry."
Alicia Powell, Reuters.
Alec Baldwin's words gets him kicked off a flight.
The actor got into a dispute with an American Airlines flight attendant after he allegedly refused to stop playing a smart-phone word game.
After being removed from the Los Angeles-to-New York flight, Baldwin tweeted saying:
"Flight attendant on American reamed me out 4 playing WORDS W FRIENDS while we sat at the gate, not moving."
Once aboard another flight he tweeted again:
"Last flight w American. Where retired Catholic school gym teachers from the 1950's find jobs as flight attendants."
American Airlines has released its own version of events via its Facebook page:
"This passenger declined to turn off his cell phone when asked to do so at the appropriate time...."
"The passenger was extremely rude to the crew, calling them inappropriate names and using offensive language."
Passengers who were on the flight said the incident delayed their take-off.
SOUNDBITE: Unidentified passenger, saying (English):
"He became a little bit irate, and they had to remove him from the flight. It cost us about 45 minutes."
But fellow traveler and former world champion boxer Oscar De La Hoya, said the incident wasn't all that bad.
SOUNDBITE: Oscar De La Hoya, boxer, saying (English):
"I didn't think there was no problem. I actually felt that Alec Baldwin was turning off, turning off his devices, and he just got a little angry."
Alicia Powell, Reuters.