In what can only be described as a tragic turn of events, a Wisconsin woman says that after she received a troubling text from her husband while on board a Southwest Airlines flight about to take off, she was told she couldn’t call him. When she arrived home, police informed her that her husband had taken his own life.
The woman says the alarming text came moments before her flight from New Orleans to Milwaukee was set to take off, when he sent a message asking her for forgiveness for committing suicide, reportsWTMJ-4 News (warning: link contains video that auto-plays).
“I started shaking the minute I got the text and I was panicked, I didn’t know what to do,” she said, adding that she immediately replied “no,” and went to call him.
But a flight attendant making her final checks told her she had to turn her phone off or put it in airplane mode, and “slapped the phone down,” the passenger says.
When she explained the situation, the woman says the attendant told her it was “FAA regulations.”
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i work on aircraft, and this rule is total bs! no way will your phone interfere with the avionics in the cockpit. Are we still allowed to use that word? anyway this is all about control not safety! she shoulda slapped the bitch. flight attendant's are a joke. little to no training but we are here for your safety! right?
ReplyDeleteairlines are like any other business. the ONLY thing they care about is MONEY. Those greedy sob's put profit and greed before anyone else's slightest request. I haven't flown in over 40 years because I saw United Air treat a sick person like they he was mentally ill and embarrassed the hell out of him in front of the whole flight.
ReplyDeleteJust more corporate robots programmed to not care about anyone
ReplyDeleteThe airline is 100% correct. If u start making exceptions, the floodgates open. If she was so concerned, she could have found a way 2 get off the flight.....heck, fake chest pains...If her husband was in such a fragile mental condition, she should not have been traveling away from him.
ReplyDeleteThe compassion on here is overwhelming. I have asked the crew to have the pilot make an emergency contact while in flight and it was done without hesitation or complaint. Different airline but it can be done.
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