Posted by Nicholas Stix
This is odd. A plane has to turn around and have a woman forcibly removed for screaming out Whitney Houston songs. And yet, while milder behavior on jetliners causes people to get arrested all the time—interfering with a flight crew was made a federal felony a number of years ago—just recall the flight attendant who got drunk, made a silly announcement on the flight's mic, and then opened the emergency slide upon landing and slid onto the tarmac, the offending female in this case not arrested at all. And there's no mention of her name, and the purported photo of her doesn't show her. Meanwhile, the one mug shot accompanying the article is of a white-bearded, old white man.
Here's the deal. The offender was black. That's why she wasn't arrested, named, or depicted. The people I've heard of being arrested under such circumstances were white. But KCTV went beyond mere censorship to fiction. The station posted a chaperone picture, as I call them, of an old, white suspect. Typically, chaperone pictures of suburban white or white-enough misdemeanant suspects are imported, in order to counter-balance the pictures of urban black felony suspects, but KCTV suppressed the black offender's name and image, and replaced her with that of a an old white suspect form God knows where, so the reader should subconsciously associate her offense with whites. Way to go in the counter-intel wars, KCTV!
Unruly woman, belting out Whitney Houston songs, kicked off flight
It was a coast-to-coast flight that some passengers won't soon forget.
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The American Airlines flight made an emergency stop at Kansas City International Airport due to an unruly passenger, authorities said.
The woman disrupted the flight in part by belting out Whitney Houston songs. And based on the video posted by a passenger on the flight, the woman won't be getting a golden ticket onto the American Idol competition anytime soon.
The American Airlines flight departed Los Angeles International Airport at 3:30 p.m. Thursday. It was headed to John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York.
But it made an unscheduled landing at KCI at 6:06 p.m.
"The woman was being disruptive and was removed from the plane for interfering with the flight crew," airport spokesman Joe McBride said Friday. "There was a federal air marshal on the aircraft, who subdued the woman and put her in cuffs and removed her from the plane."
As she was leaving the plane, she crooned, "I will always love you," which was written by Dolly Parton. Both Parton and Houston performed the song.
The plane took off from KCI at 7:11 p.m.
The woman was interviewed and released without any charges. McBride said American refused to fly the woman on to her destination, so she had to make other arrangements.
McBride said the woman reportedly claimed she was diabetic.
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