Pa. passengers call JetBlue flight attendant rude

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Two women from Pittsburgh say a JetBlue flight attendant was rude and instigated the confrontation that he ended by barreling down an emergency slide at New York’s Kennedy Airport.

Fifty-three-year-old Marjorie Briskin told The Wall Street Journal for a story Thursday that flight attendant Steven Slater blurted out an expletive during an otherwise normal conversation with a passenger over luggage.

Another woman, 25-year-old Lauren Dominijanni told the Journal that Slater was immediately rude to her. She says Slater “rolled his eyes at me” when she asked for a wipe to clean up coffee someone spilled on her seat.

Neither woman immediately returned calls from The Associated Press on Thursday.

Slater has been arraigned on charges of criminal mischief and reckless endangerment for deploying an emergency exit chute after arguing with a passenger.