Flight Forced To Make Emergency Landing After Passenger Refuses To Stop Doing Pull-Ups On The Overhead Storage Bins

Source - An American Airlines flight from Phoenix to Boston was diverted to Kansas City, Mo., Monday evening after a passenger allegedly refused to stop doing pull-ups using the plane’s overhead bins.

According to other passengers on Flight 2763, the unidentified man appeared to be intoxicated when he boarded the plane with a woman and two dogs. Soon after the man began bizarrely demonstrating his athleticism.

“He was leaning up against where you put the bags overhead and a passenger came by and said ‘What are you going to do, some pull ups?’ and the guy actually grabbed on to it and started doing some pull ups on the plane in front of everybody,” passenger David Markoski told WBZ.

Markoski told reporters the man ordered alcohol on the flight and became more belligerent.

“He would not sit down. The flight attendant probably asked him about three or four times to sit down and he refused to sit down and then he really got verbally abusive with her, starting calling her names,” Markoski said.

The plane carrying 147 passengers and 6 crew members was forced to divert to Kansas City because of the unruly passenger, American Airlines confirmed to Fox News.

I’ll be the first person to say that ultimately, you are responsible for what you put into your body. No one can make you eat or drink or smoke anything you don’t want to without your consent. I’m a firm believer of letting people consume whatever they want, whenever they want and holding them accountable for their actions after the fact. BUT I’ve always said that bartenders get away with murder and now is the perfect time explain why.

Simply put, bartenders over serve their patrons, and no one ever calls them on it. They know better, they just don’t care because they want to get tips. In this case, the flight attendants are the bartenders and they should’ve known better than to serve him his fifth gin the second he got onto to his flight.

So yeah, it’s bit of a spin zone blaming the flight attendants for grounding the flight but ultimately, it’s their fault. Sometimes all it takes is one more drink to push someone over the edge and that’s what happened here.