As an American Airlines plane taxied for takeoff at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport on Friday morning, a flight attendant ranted on the plane's intercom, repeatedly telling passengers that she was not responsible for the safety of the plane and wrestling with another flight attendant for control of the plane's public address system, according to a passenger on the flight.
Airline and government officials confirmed the disruption on American Airlines Flight 2332, which forced the plane to return to the gate and led to two flight attendants being taken to the hospital.
Several passengers restrained the disruptive attendant, said Laurie Grabe, a Traverse City, Michigan, woman who witnessed the event from her ninth-row seat.
She said that as the plane was taxiing for takeoff, she and other passengers first heard the flight attendant on the intercom sounding disgruntled and alluding to unsuccessful efforts to talk to the pilots.
The flight attendant said, "OK, if you don't hear me, then I give up. I'm not responsible if this plane crashes." She also "said something about opening the doors."
At first, "everybody was laughing because it sounded like she (had) accidentally turned on" the intercom, Grabe said.
Then, other flight attendants intervened, "telling her to turn off the PA, not to talk like that," she said.
"Everybody was starting to look at each other, like 'Oh, my God, What's going on here?' "
When other flight attendants started wrestling for control of the microphone, several passengers joined in, Grabe said. They "threw her into the first row of seats and held her down."
By:CNN
