The ordeal started when the guy wasn't allowed to buy headphones with cash; JetBlue accepts only credit card payments. Then the 45-year-old man wanted booze and was denied it. The captain diverted the plane and had Kevin Simon arrested.
(South Florida Sun-Sentinel)
He was intoxicated? It just can't be!
Posted by: Jamie | Friday, January 28, 2011 at 07:32 AM
Yeah... somehow flight crews no longer find humor in a passenger screaming repeatedly 'I will take this plane down.'
Strange.
Posted by: Tom Weidermeijer | Friday, January 28, 2011 at 07:37 AM
Another Florida native on a rampage. Maybe they should just wall off the entire state
Posted by: TequilaJoe | Friday, January 28, 2011 at 07:45 AM
Another Florida native on a rampage. Maybe they should just wall off the entire state
Posted by: TequilaJoe | Friday, January 28, 2011 at 07:45 AM
So cash isn't legal tender anymore?
Posted by: twerp | Friday, January 28, 2011 at 07:48 AM
"Simon's sister, Marianne Fhock, of Grosse Pointe, Mich."
Who did she fhock?
Posted by: American Veteran | Friday, January 28, 2011 at 08:17 AM
cash is too complicated for airlines
Posted by: buddy | Friday, January 28, 2011 at 08:40 AM
can't trust attendants with cash, receipts and all that
seems to be happening everywhere
man has a massive will to fail
Posted by: Lambiepie | Friday, January 28, 2011 at 09:03 AM
Note to self: Wear long scarf on next flight in order to help flight crew subdue nutjobs like this guy.
Posted by: Sheila | Friday, January 28, 2011 at 09:11 AM
Remember the plane hijack scene in "Magnum Force"?
Posted by: KDP | Friday, January 28, 2011 at 09:25 AM
It's cheaper for airlines to run a card than deal with cash.
Pity the flight attendants didn't taze his sorry ass.
Posted by: Phranqlin | Friday, January 28, 2011 at 09:27 AM
Haha! He threw a tantrum over being denied a drink, and ended up diverted to SLC...Hahahahahaha!
Justice.
Posted by: RockyMtnMac | Friday, January 28, 2011 at 09:29 AM
I've been in the Salt Lake City airport, but I don't remember seeing a bar. Anyone know?
Posted by: Sheila | Friday, January 28, 2011 at 10:16 AM