More sky rage on US jets
American Airlines apologises in latest row.
Ashocking video has emerged showing an American Airlines employee challenging a passenger to a fight after allegedly hitting a woman with a stroller on a domestic flight.
The upsetting footage, filmed before Flight 591 departed from San Francisco on Friday afternoon, shows the airline staff member goading a passenger and saying, “hit me”.
The clip was uploaded by passenger Surain Adyanthaya, who explained he started filming after the flight attendant “violently took a stroller from a lady with her baby on my flight, hitting her and just missing the baby”.
Adyanthaya went on to explain: “They just . . . escorted the mother and her kids off the flight and let the flight attendant back on, who tried to fight other passengers. The mum asked for an apology and the AA official declined.”
In the video, a distraught woman is seen standing at the front of the plane holding a child.
She can be seen sobbing and asks staff members to get her stroller back.
One passenger gets up and walks to the front of the plane to confront flight attendants. The man asks for the name of the employee who is alleged to have hit the crying woman.
The situation escalates further when a man in an American Airlines uniform boards the plane.
The male passenger who got up out of his seat to intervene confronts the uniformed employee.
“You do that to me and I’ll knock you flat,” the man says.
The staff member responds by pointing his finger at the man and telling him to “stay out of it”.
The male passenger then closer to the employee, challenges him to a fight.
“Try it,” the employee tells the customer. “Hit me. You don’t know what the story is.”
“You almost hurt a baby!” the man is heard replying.
The airline released a statement late Friday saying that it was “disappointed by these actions” and had already started to investigate the incident.
United Airlines was slammed after a passenger was dragged off an April 9 flight in Chicago. The flight was already full when aviation officers forcibly removed Dr David Dao from the plane. — Daily Mail steps who