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There's nothing quite like the miracle of airline travel, am I right?
I'd trade a 10 hour car ride for a 2 hour flight any day of the week, but there's just one problem that arises when a bunch of people are crammed into a long, metal tube with wings. And that problem is... well, putting
that many strangers together in close quarters.
Tensions can run high when traveling. Whether it be a layover that's cutting it close, or just the airport experience in general, sometimes you don't get the best version of people when they are traveling by airplane. That was evidently the case with these people who picked a verbal fight with one another on a recent JetBlue flight.
The plane was set to depart from JFK Airport to Cibao International Airport in the Dominican Republic and had been delayed, which obviously got some people disgruntled. The woman in the video was holding up the plane because he had a number of children on the plane, with not enough adults to hold them all. The man in a black baseball cap reportedly started complaining that she was holding up the flight.
Things escalated into the screaming match you'll see below because as the plane was about to take off, the flight attendants noticed that the mother and her teenage son were both holding an infant. JetBlue's safety guidelines - along with other airlines - state that babies must be held by adults, not teenagers, so the plane had to taxi back to the gate.
With everyone already on edge due to delays, this added hiccup sent one man on the flight into a fit of rage. He and the mother and her teenage son got into a yelling match, with the baseball-cap-wearing man yelling at the mom to "shut the f**k up," while the mother screamed back at him to "be quiet."
Flight attendants were forced to hold the teenage son back as he too tried to get into the verbal back and forth multiple times. All while everyone else on the flight sat in their seats and just wished they could get to their Dominican vacation. They must not have accounted for the potential in-flight delay, or in-flight entertainment... whatever you want to call it.
Take a look:
https://www.instagram.com/p/C85uAEhxJIX/