Man spits at air stewardess, slaps her after fight breaks out on plane over 'elbowing'
A passenger misbehaved and struck a stewardess hard on her face after she slapped him for yelling and spitting at her while they were arguing.
The male passenger allegedly became irritated and out of control after the Brussels Airline attendants refused to come to the aid of his mother-in-law who was reportedly being "elbowed" by the two men who were on either side of her.
As per a two-minute video shared online, the angry passenger is seen yelling at a male flight attendant who along with many others is trying to get him to sit down. The video has been shot by the man's wife where he can be heard screaming, "You don’t put your hands on me!"
The male attendant tries to calm the passenger down when the passenger threatened to "beat the s**t out of" the attendant. The man's wife starts shouting that the male attendant had hit her husband when others attempted to separate them.
As the confusion and chaos escalate, the flight attendant's supervisor, a woman in a red uniform, tries to pacify the situation but is told to "shut the f**** up" by the man. She responds to the aggravated passenger with a pointed finger and says, "You listen, and you calm down."
When the supervisor threatened to call the cops, the husband and wife claimed that it was the flight attendant who had escalated the situation by touching him. As other passengers try to calm the situation down, the supervisor threatens the husband that he would "get into trouble".
As the two argued, the man started yelling louder and louder and inched closer to the supervisor's face. At one point, the supervisor stops to wipe spit off her face. She then hits the passenger in the face after which the man struck her hard in the face.
Passengers separate the two while the man's wife yells uncontrollably in the background. The wife is heard saying "Get the f*** off of him!" before the clip ends. The woman who shared the video on Facebook, Carmen Moore, shared, "A black man, his wife, and family were traveling back from a vacation."
"The man is complaining about TWO men who were sitting on the sides of his Mother-in-law and elbowing her as she was sitting in the middle seat. The man complained to the supervisor and was told they didn’t have to help him. The female Supervisor proceeded to defend the men who were elbowing the woman when the man said something to the supervisor."
"She slapped him. The men who jumped on him broke his ribs and the police drug him down the plane's steel stairs despite the man asking for medical attention prior."