Don't make me turn this plane around: 100 kids kicked off flight

[liberal N proud]

A group of about 100 high school students traveling from New York to Atlanta were thrown off an AirTran flight, along with their chaperones, after the pilot and crew lost patience with some kids who wouldn't sit down and put away their cellphones.

Seniors from the Yeshiva of Flatbush in Brooklyn were on the flight about 6 a.m. Monday at LaGuardia Airport. AirTran's parent company, Southwest Airlines, said in a statement that flight attendants asked passengers several times to take their seats and put their mobile devices away.

The airline said that when some didn't comply, the captain repeated the request. When that didn't work either, the whole group of students was ordered to disembark for safety reasons, the airline said. The flight was delayed for about 45 minutes while the students filed out of the Boeing 737, which seats about 137 people, leaving the plane mostly empty.

Rabbi Seth Linfield, executive director at Yeshiva of Flatbush, said administrators Tuesday were still looking into the disagreement, but he said in a statement that "preliminarily, it does not appear that the action taken by the flight crew was justified."


http://www.nbcnews.com/travel/dont-make-me-turn-plane-around-100-kids-kicked-flight-6C10195143

[monmouth3]

1. Sounds justified to me. Can't obey the rules, you're out..n/t

[Sherman A1]

4. Precisely

You don't under any circumstances fail to follow the instructions of the Flight Crew and most particularly the Captain of the flight.

[Major Nikon]

6. Not always

I tried this on my wife in my plane, but it didn't go over as well as I'd hoped.

[sharp_stick]

8. Some people are truly

incorrigible.

[Major Nikon]

9. I even promised to wear captain's bars if she would put on the flight attendant's uniform

[TeeYiYi]

10. ...and then remove it slowly. ..nt

TYY

[HangOnKids]

14. Uniforms are incredibly sexy

My first 3 kids were all conceived when the hubby came home in his flight suit. That boy looked great in that thing.

[shawn703]

2. Wow

Surprising that the school would come out on the side of the students who are being so obviously disrespectful. This behavior is something they would tolerate in their classroom?

[Shrike47]

3. Maybe, just maybe, the kids learned something about the real world.

[Auggie]

5. Serves them right

[canonfodder]

7. Left seater

The man/woman in the left seat, has final say.
If those kids couldn't behave for 15 minutes...off they go.
Those FAA regs are there for a reason, and it's not to hassle people.

[quinnox]

11. what a surprise, more rude kids who have no understanding of respect

This is what you get for raising spoiled brats.

[Arkansas Granny]

12. It sounds like the airline was justified.

We're talking teenagers here, not toddlers. They are quite capable of understanding the rules and complying. It's pretty simple.

[NoPasaran]

13. No peanuts for you!

[Nye Bevan]

15. Who did they think they were? Alec Baldwin? (nt)

[msanthrope]

16. When the captain has to tell you to sit down and shut up, you are trouble. nt

[Tien1985]

17. According to the article

They are giving them all free tickets. There goes ANY lesson they might have learned.

[msanthrope]

18. Not 'free' tickets--vouchers to replace the tickets they already paid for. nt

[Brigid]

19. What is wrong with people today?

They can't even deal with simple instructions from the flight crew so that the plane can get ready for takeoff? If I had been on that plane, I would have ended up with a nice, peaceful, and largely empty flight to Atlanta, while these idiots ended up with nothing but vouchers.