First Class Screw-up

[nkped 1,208]

From the local fish wrapper. http://www.adn.com/2013/08/20/3034324/womans-in-flight-antics-land-her.html

Last time I remember this happening was 2001.

 

Woman's in-flight antics land her in Anchorage jail after jet diverted

Published: August 20, 2013

Read more here: http://www.adn.com/2013/08/20/3034324/womans-in-flight-antics-land-her.html#storylink=cpy

A first-class passenger on a plane to Shanghai caused such a ruckus Sunday by screaming, cursing and disobeying flight attendants that the Boeing 777's pilot made an emergency stopover in Anchorage where the passenger was arrested, according to the charges against her.

Stephanie Heizmann Auerbach, owner of Shanghai-based apparel and fashion company Stephanie & Co., remained jailed Tuesday at Hiland Mountain Correctional Center on federal charges of disrupting a flight. Two children traveling with Auerbach, 47, continued to Shanghai, where their father was to meet them, the charges say.

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"M.B.," a flight attendant, said she served Auerbach five glasses of white wine, and three passengers later told her that Auerbach had been "taking and consuming alcoholic beverages from the galley without the knowledge of the flight crew," the charges say.

It became a problem when, as one passenger told the FBI agent later, Auerbach began walking up and down the aisle, yelling profanities and climbing over seats. She refused to sit down after a flight attendant asked her to go to her seat, A in Row 1, five different times.

"Auerbach spilled alcohol on passenger A.J. and grabbed A.J.'s wrist to place a bracelet on A.J. (She) declined to wear the bracelet and asked Auerbach to leave her alone," the charges say. "In response, Auerbach swore at A.J. and demanded that a flight attendant give her A.J.'s name. A flight attendant intervened and returned Auerbach to Auerbach's assigned seat. Auerbach alarmed A.J. and it appeared to A.J. that Auerbach was attempting to gain access to the pilot."

Another flight attendant gave Auerbach a written notice saying she had violated an order by a member of the flight crew regarding passenger safety. In response, Auerbach hit the flight attendant with the notice. Auerbach then approached the flight attendant, getting close to his or her face, and demanded off the flight.

That's when the pilot, "W.R.," came out to talk to Auerbach "at length," the charges say. Delta's spokeswoman would not give the pilot's name.

W.R. warned Auerbach and asked if she would follow the crew's instructions. She said no, and the pilot diverted the flight to Anchorage.

"After landing at Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport, Auerbach remained uncooperative," the charges say.

Airport police had to board the plane to remove Auerbach, who was "physically combative," the charges say. They detained her, and she was eventually charged and arrested.

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Edited August 21, 2013 by nkped

[LBJ 533]

lesson learned, never travel with kids....

[papillon 695]

Why inconvenience the passengers by landing? Just tie her up and gag her. If she dies she dies.

[darkmancomes 75]

I would have settled her Ha

[LocalYokul 215]

So the lush got everyone delayed and probably cost many passengers their connecting flights.

[jacko 8,815]

So the lush got everyone delayed and probably cost many passengers their connecting flights.

I am a lush... fortunately a reasonably behaved one.

It is people like this that make it hard to get a good drink to alleviate the tedium of flying!

[nkped 1,208]

The first comment to the story on the newspaper's web site was "This is exactly why I always drive to Shanghai."

 

 

[Bushcraft 2,581]

What an obnoxious cow, what does it take to make some idiots realise that it's time to shut up?

Yep, knock her out, tie her up until she's sober. Unfortunately flight crew aren't equipped and trained for this kind of passenger, and why should they have to be, and when something like this occurs they have no ultimate recourse but to land and get rid of the offender - infuriating for the other passengers, personally I'd have quietly decked her if I was on board.

[Dungheap 243]

Got to love new world money ...

 

Back to the donkey!

[aussiechic 209]

We had 2 passengers (both Australian) on a Air Asia flight in April, who where one notch below this and Air Asia staff choose to ignore them even after one of them stood up looked out the window and yelled I can see tellaban running around. One of the passengers told him sit down and shut up and he abused her. All the while the flight attendants were no more than 5 meters away in their hidy hole. The only time they spoke to them was when they were bussing for more drinks, which was continues even after they told them they weren't severing any more alcohol. When we landed in Kualar Lumpur and we were going through the transfer scanner the man in front him beeped and he pointed at him and said loudly the American has a bomb, an no body did a thing. They went straight to the bar and drank till their flight to Bangkok, lucky we were going to Chiang Mi but we watched them stager out to their plane.

 

When we were retuning a couple of weeks later we noted the safety flight message had changed to include, do not remove the life perseveres from the plane it is an aviation offence. We wondered if this had some thing to do with them.

 

I made a complaint to Air Asia with all the details. The reply was after their investigation the crew reported that 2 passengers had become rowed and they stopped serving them alcohol and they settled down. BULLSHIT.

 

Will not fly long haul with Air Asia again plus I hate the transship at Kuala Lumpur the worst international airport I have seen.

Edited August 23, 2013 by aussiechic

[jacko 8,815]

Will not fly long haul with Air Asia again plus I hate the transship at Kuala Lumpur the worst international airport I have seen.

Don't Air Asia and the other budget carriers have a separate terminal in KL?

[aussiechic 209]

Yes I have not been to other side, I think that would be Malaysian airline terminal.