JetBlue Passenger Removed After Arguing With Flight Attendants

By: Bill Waters
10/11/2010 07:27 AM ET

JetBlue passenger removed from plane. The passenger was ejected from the flight after being disruptive towards JetBlue attendants. JetBlue Airways flight had 126 passengers onboard and was delayed for almost 3 hours.

An argument was sparked when the passenger, who has been unidentified, moved to an unassigned seat. He apparently started the argument with one of the flight attendants. All of the passengers were then ordered by the captain to disembark the plane due to the incident.

This decision made everyone go through security checks again before they were allowed to get back on the flight. Despite the disruption, no one was arrested, according to officials. However, the disruptive passenger wasn’t allowed to get back on the flight.

Jenny Dervin, a spokeswoman for JetBlue Airways, says that the passenger was removed from Flight 21. The service was originally set to take off from JFK Airport to Tampa at 6:59pm on Saturday, she continued, but it didn’t depart until 9:40pm. She didn’t give any reason for why the passenger was removed, but she said that the plane was re-screened.

JetBlue Airways has been in the news for unruly reasons in the last few months. This most notably comes with the chaos surrounding one of their flight attendants….rather former flight attendant now. Steven Slater notoriously flew off the deep end after a flight and confrontations with a passenger. He was seen as a hero for many Facebook members, but the courts are a different story. He faces jail time over the incident.