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June 20, 2008

Drink, Smoke, and Get in a Fight on JetBlue

Filed under: Airplane, Passengers — mike @ 10:47 am

If you’re looking to get loaded, light up, and throw down, can’t you just find a local bar or something? I mean, do you really have to take it to the skies? Apparently, if you’re Christina Szele, you do:

“An unruly JetBlue passenger from Queens who lit up a cigarette mid-flight Tuesday forced the 145-passenger flight to be diverted after she became violent and uncooperative when asked to stop smoking…” (from wcbstv.com)

The Queens native was arrested for assault and is being held in Denver. There are questions surrounding the number of drinks the passenger had consumed before the incident. Some say one, some say three, and some say the airline is “covering up” the number of drinks flight attendants served the passenger.

It’s still unknown if passengers on the JetBlue flight were able watch the events unfold on the news on their in-flight TVs.

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