Flight Attendants’ Jobs Have Never Been More Dangerous – Violence On Planes Is At An All-Time High
The fight broke out over bags. After the plane touched down in Miami, one passenger was not getting his luggage down from the overhead bin fast enough, at least not in the eyes of the man behind him. That man, who is White, started shouting racial slurs at the other passenger, a Black man.
In the front of the plane, flight attendant Cher Taylor heard the commotion just before the angry man punched the one pulling down his bags until he fell on his back into a row of seats. Taylor started running.
“I’ll beat you good, I’ll kill you,” the man was shouting, punctuating the end of each sentence with a racial slur.
Taylor, a Black woman, tried to step between them, unsure of how to intervene. When the White man finally stepped back, leaving the other man on the ground, he and his family walk...