A United flight from Sao Paolo, Brazil to Chicago O’Hare made an unscheduled stop in Miami Tuesday “after one of its captains diverted (the aircraft) to deplane a senior flight attendant … he argued with,” Flightglobal.com reports. The website says United is conducting an internal investigation into the incident. Citing a “source familiar with the incident,” Flightglobal.com says the captain of the Boeing 767 “ordered the purser of the Boeing 767 to leave the aircraft because he was ‘not respecting his authority.’ “
Few other details were revealed, though a United spokeswoman tells Flightglobal.com “the pilot chose to divert the flight due to a crew issue.” A spokesman for the Federal Aviation Administration tells Flightglobal.com that the pilot decided that the situation was best resolved on the ground.
Source:USA Today
By: steve rowell - 19th July 2009 at 00:40
I don’t think it was fisticuffs…just a verbal disagreement i think!!!
By: keltic - 18th July 2009 at 13:44
I mean….literaly?. Or simply a verbal argument?. I once saw a fight behind the galley curtain (I was on row one) between two female flight attendants on a former Aviaco DC9-30 in a domestic flight. A journalist was close, and tried to separate them, and then wrote something in a newspaper.
Both were fired as well as the pilot on board. One was the wife, the other was the lover. 🙂
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July 18, 2009 at 12:20 am