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MID-AIR PILE-ON: Drunken, Unruly Passenger Bound For JFK Restrained By Fellow Flyers (VIDEO) MID-AIR PILE-ON: Drunken, Unruly Passenger Bound For JFK Restrained By Fellow Flyers (VIDEO)
Mid-air Pile-on: Drunken, Unruly Passenger Bound For JFK Restrained By Fellow Flyers (Video) A drunken JetBlue passenger on a flight to New York from Great Britain had to be restrained by other passengers when he began abusing the cabin crew, video posted by a fellow traveler shows. “The man was drunk and was getting loud and aggressive, moving seats," said Grant Saunders, a hypnotist by trade who was headed to Las Vegas. "Then when the crew asked him to calm down, he started getting worse. Then he started wandering about the aisle. "The crew asked him to sit in his seat and he then started getting aggressive,” Saunders said. “[Four] men from the back of the plane came down to assi…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Passenger Threatens Victim With Razor On Thanksgiving Week Flight From JFK, Feds Say Passenger Threatens Victim With Razor On Thanksgiving Week Flight From JFK, Feds Say
Passenger Threatens Victim With Razor On Thanksgiving Week Flight From JFK, Feds Say A man has been apprehended after allegedly holding a razor blade to a woman's throat on a Thanksgiving Week flight out of John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City. Merrill Darrell Fackrell, 41, departed on JetBlue Flight No. 871 from JFK en route to Salt Lake City International Airport in Utah on Monday, Nov. 21, according to the US Attorney's Office for the District of Utah. Fackrell, who was in a window seat next to married passengers, placed his hand in front of the woman’s screen and told her to pause her movie during the flight, the US Attorney's Office said.  According…

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by Joe Lombardi
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'People Are Fainting, Throwing Up': JetBlue Passengers Beg To Deplane On Newark Tarmac 'People Are Fainting, Throwing Up': JetBlue Passengers Beg To Deplane On Newark Tarmac
'People Are Fainting, Throwing Up': JetBlue Passengers Beg To Deplane On Newark Tarmac Panicked JetBlue passengers were captured on video begging crew members to let them disembark after spending hours trying to land in Newark due to bad weather keeping them from JFK. "I don’t care about JFK — it’s our lives," one passenger on the April 8 flight from Cancun can be heard saying on Sabrina Ettinger's video. "People are sick back there, people are fainting, people are throwing up. A little respect for human beings." Passengers can be heard pleading with crew members to let them off, despite having to wait hours in customs at either airport. "We're scared to fly we want to get …

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by Cecilia Levine
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Feds: Angry JetBlue Passenger Rushes Cockpit, Chokes Attendant, Begs To Be Shot Feds: Angry JetBlue Passenger Rushes Cockpit, Chokes Attendant, Begs To Be Shot
Feds: Angry JetBlue Passenger Rushes Cockpit, Chokes Attendant, Begs To Be Shot A JetBlue passenger who was upset when he had trouble making a phone call had to be restrained after he tried to storm the cockpit and choke a flight attendant who intercepted him, federal authorities said. Flight 261 from Boston to Puerto Rico was 45 minutes or so from landing late Wednesday when Khalil El Dahr “became angry" about a phone call not going through, an FBI affidavit on file in U.S. District Court in San Juan says. El Dahr, who was sitting in the sixth row, rushed the cockpit, yelling in Spanish and Arabic for someone to shoot him, it says. A flight attendant tried to stop El…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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WATCH: Entire Newark Flight Ousted From Plane After Toddler, 2, Refuses Face Mask WATCH: Entire Newark Flight Ousted From Plane After Toddler, 2, Refuses Face Mask
Watch: Entire Newark Flight Ousted From Plane After Toddler, 2, Refuses Face Mask An entire Newark-bound flight was forced off the plane after a 2-year-old girl refused to wear a face mask, reports say. Chaya Bruck of Brooklyn, NY, was flying alone from Orlando Wednesday with her six children when her youngest, Dina, refused to keep her mask on, she said in a Facebook post. Flight attendants warned Bruck if her toddler didn't keep her mask on, they'd be kicked off the plane. Other passengers encouraged Bruck to stand her ground -- even arguing with the flight attendants over their face mask policy and the age of the child. Bruck pleaded with flight attendants to let he…

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by Cecilia Levine
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TONIGHT: JetBlue NYC Flyover Salutes Healthcare Workers TONIGHT: JetBlue NYC Flyover Salutes Healthcare Workers
Tonight: JetBlue NYC Flyover Salutes Healthcare Workers Three JetBlue planes will take flight over New York City Thursday evening to salute healthcare workers on the frontlines of coronavirus. The planes will start at JFK Airport and fly over Manhattan, Queens and the Bronx at approximately 7 p.m. The flight path will overlap with part of the route taken by the Blue Angels and Thunderbirds that took flight last week. Photos and videos can be sent to clevine@dailyvoice.com.

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by Cecilia Levine
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JetBlue Pilots Drugged, Raped Airline Workers Before Flight To Newark, Lawsuit Alleges JetBlue Pilots Drugged, Raped Airline Workers Before Flight To Newark, Lawsuit Alleges
JetBlue Pilots Drugged, Raped Airline Workers Before Flight To Newark, Lawsuit Alleges Three female airline workers claim a pair of JetBlue pilots drugged and raped them the day before a flight to Newark. A lawsuit filed by the women contends the incident occurred May 9 in San Juan, after they met pilots Eric Johnson and Dan Watson on a beach, the New York Post reports. The pilots apparently gave the women beer laced with a drug, turning the rest of the night into a blur, the lawsuit alleges. All five people ended up back at a hotel where Johnson raped two of the women, it claims. “Johnson was on top of [Jane Doe 1] raping her,” the New York Post report quotes the…

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by Cecilia Levine