Alec Baldwin kicked off American Airlines flight
Alec Baldwin attends Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation's A Magical Evening Gala on Nov. 30, 2011, in New York.
/ Getty(CBS) Alec Baldwin was booted from an American Airlines flight in Los Angeles on Tuesday, apparently after he used an electronic device to play a Scrabble-like game before the plane departed.
"Flight attendant on American reamed me out 4 playing WORDS W FRIENDS while we sat at the gate, not moving. #nowonderamericaairisbankrupt," Baldwin tweeted.
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Several passengers tweeted about the incident, including this one from Michael J. Wolfe: "On an AA flight at LAX. Alec Baldwin removed from the plane We had to go back to the gate. "Terrible that everyone had to wait."
Baldwin's rep told People magazine, "Alec was asked to leave the flight for playing Words with Friends while parked the gate. He loves WWF so much that he was willing to leave a plane for it, but he has already boarded another AA flight."
Other reports say he was booted for more than just playing a game. A passenger on the New York-bound flight told the New York Post that the actor was talking on his phone, and a crew member told the paper that Baldwin was "violent, abusive and aggressive."
The actor later tweeted that the flight attendants on his next flight looked "smarter."
He added, "Last flight w American. Where retired Catholic school gym teachers from the 1950's find jobs as flight attendants."
American Airlines chimed in on its own Twitter account, writing, "Our flight attendants were following federal safety procedures on electronic devices when aircraft door is closed."
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This was apparently the purpose here, to make the plane wait until a patch of denatured atmosphere had passed. Note that Baldwin, although behaving like a characteristic "troublesome passenger", was not taken into custody. Part is because he's a star and, in the New World ORder, they have rights the "rank and file" don't possess, but also because he did his duty. He can claim he stands for "the little guy", but he's a seervant of the NWO. Note, too, that he was allowed on another jet almost immediately, even though he seemed determined to cntinue to play the game. For that mater, note his insistence on playing the game and that causing his outburst and ejection, even though, given his evident "love" for the game, he must have been playing it when other flights took off! The only purpose for this was the delay of the plane at the gate!
If this is allowed to continue, soon, only the military and the corporate rich and influential will be able to fly, in non-aerodynamic triangular and diamond shaped drones being reported seen.
He hung up.
After the flight he was berating the flight attendant. until the pilot warned him. I gave the attendant my card and told her that if there were any issues she could use me as a witness to say that she handled herself in a completely professional and courteous manner.
We need more flight attendants like her and fewer passengers like that guy.
If I were Baldwin, as an ex-busboy, I'd have taken the bus to protest and have more time to play the game while traveling.
Not a good career move screwing around with feds after the NBC/Comcast merger that still is under the watchful eye of everyone on Capitol Hill.
If ever there is a remake of THE UGLY AMERICAN, A**** Baldwin is a natural for the part.
I would put anyone that obnoxious on The No Fly List.
(Actually, Mr. Baldwin is, indeed, a narcissistic twit. We just don't know if deserved to get booted in this case)