Mike Huckabee Tweets Jokes As Sick Passenger Is Taken Off His Flight Out Of LAX
NASHVILLE (CBSLA) — Former presidential candidate and Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee apparently found it funny that his flight out of Los Angeles was delayed for a medical emergency on board early Thursday.
A passenger reportedly got sick on American Airlines Flight 1289, so an ambulance was waiting to meet the plane when it landed about 5 a.m., according to NewsChannel 5.
A woman was seen being taken off the plane and appeared alert as she was put into an ambulance.
Huckabee tweeted he was on the flight, and joked on Twitter that the Russians must have delayed his flight.
5 hr red eye flight on @AmericanAir Nashville from LA. On ground for 40 min and now told someone on board is sick & we are being towed to other gate and quarantined until all checked out. Can't get up to go to bathroom or get off plane. It's the Russians! I just know it!
— Gov. Mike Huckabee (@GovMikeHuckabee) August 16, 2018
He tweeted again later, with a dig at the growing number of bans on plastic straws in California.
1 hr after landing got to far away gate where @AmericanAir will hopefully get us off this plane! Medical personal at gate. Hope it's not because I got that straw in CA! pic.twitter.com/g5AJvacyqE
— Gov. Mike Huckabee (@GovMikeHuckabee) August 16, 2018
Huckabee also tweeted praise for the American Airlines crew, and joked that medical personnel were making sure the sickened passenger wasn't "Gwyneth Paltrow from Contagion," then added he hoped the lady was OK.
Kudos to @AmericanAir pilot and crew-handled medical issue on red eye from LAX to Nashville very professionally. We were held for a while as medical personnel made sure the person wasn't Gwyneth Paltrow from Contagion. Seriously, hope the lady is okay--taken on gurney.
— Gov. Mike Huckabee (@GovMikeHuckabee) August 16, 2018