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Roller Derby Star Admits $400K Theft From United Airlines

June 2, 2010
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Cincinnati Roller Girl "Sadistic Sadie"

“Sadistic Sadie” of the Cincinnati Rollergirls admitted Tuesday that she skated away with more than $400,000 in airline tickets without paying for them. Sadie, a roller derby star whose real name is Mercedes Stafford, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Covington to committing wire fraud while she worked for United Airlines. Federal prosecutors say Stafford, 34, took advantage of the airline’s system for issuing tickets when a passenger’s flight is cancelled or delayed. They say the Cincinnati woman...

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Twenty Virgin Blue Staff Sacked for Viewing Porn

June 2, 2010
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porn-posters

UP to 20 Virgin Blue staff have been fired for watching porn on work computers. Staff were let go yesterday morning after an extensive investigation by the airline’s head office in Brisbane. While Virgin Blue would not confirm what staff were involved, it is believed they were members of the airline’s pit crew, who are involved in refuelling and minor maintenance. “First of all I want to make it very clear these staff were not doing anything illegal,” said...

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From the Absurd File: Funny Smell Forces Evacuation and Delay of United Flight

June 1, 2010
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"Funny" smelling flight sits on the tarmac at SFO

SAN FRANCISCO INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT~ San Francisco International Airport officials said a Chicago-bound flight was evacuated and delayed six hours Tuesday after a crew member smelled a strange odor coming from a carry-on bag. United Airlines flight No. 972 was taxiing to the runway about 10:40 a.m. when a flight attendant noticed a “pungent chemical odor” emanating from a bag that contained Chinese herbs, airport spokesman Mike McCarron said. The passengers were taken off the plane and re-screened, while dogs and...

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Ooops… Two Recent Incidents of Commuter Pilots Forgetting to Start Second Engine During Take Off

May 21, 2010
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pilots-cockpit

Airline Reporter.com’s, David Parker Brown writes…. First off, let me say that being an airline pilot is not an easy job. It is very complex, a lot can go wrong and regional pilots are not paid to the level of their talent. However, a few bad apples can make pilots seem unprofessional, which is far from the truth. That said, none of them should be making such a careless mistake. They go through a lot of training to prepare...

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Mass. State Police Confirm Distraught JetBlue Pilot Was Armed

May 21, 2010
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Hmmmm..... where's my gun? It was here a minute ago.

“The person was so distraught that he was threatening to harm himself in spectacular fashion,” Naccara said in an interview with WBZ-TV. “Never did he threaten the aircraft or the passengers or anybody involved with the plane itself.” BOSTON (AP) — A JetBlue pilot who threatened to “harm himself in spectacular fashion” surrendered a gun to authorities in Massachusetts after they confronted him just before he boarded a flight at Logan International Airport, law enforcement authorities said Friday. The...

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Boston: Mixed Reports Concerning Possible Threat(s) by JetBlue Pilot / UPDATED 05/21/10 07:50am

May 20, 2010
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TSA airport official claims JetBlue pilot threatened to harm himself only

JetBlue Pilot Threatens To Crash Plane WBZ News Boston, May 20, 2010-A JetBlue pilot threatened to crash the plane he was set to fly out of Logan Airport Thursday afternoon, a source has told WBZ NewsRadio 1030. The pilot, who has not been identified, was taken into custody at Logan for allegedly sending an email to his girlfriend in which he said if they did not reconcile their relationship, he was going to crash the plane. The officer was questioned...

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Costco Card Used by Man to Board International Flight

May 14, 2010
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A mentally challenged man was allowed to board an Air Canada plane with a Costco card as ID

CBC news- Calgary Transport Canada says it will investigate the case of an Alberta couple who say their mentally disabled son was allowed to buy an Air Canada ticket and board a flight with only his Costco and Visa cards as identification. Federal rules require airlines to get some kind of government-issued identification from every passenger boarding a plane. Either one piece of photo identification or two pieces without a photo are acceptable. Names are cross-referenced with a no-fly...

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Delta Loses Dog on Flight From Mexico City

May 10, 2010
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Paco was with his loving new family only four days

By Christian Boone-  The Atlanta Journal Constitution Paco, a cuddly Dachsund and Jack Russell terrier mix, found Josiah Allen on the beach in Puerto Vallarta. “He just came and sat beside us, stayed all day,” said Allen, a college student from Ontario, Canada. “We left to go to the pool and when we came back he was there, waiting.” Allen, 19, and his girlfriend decided to take the one-year-old stray home, spending roughly $100 on vaccinations. They treated him for...

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Police Suggest Air New Zealand Staff Has a “Drink-Driving” Problem. Say What?

May 9, 2010
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A pattern; Many ANZ staff members caught ‘under the influence’ driving too work New Zealand Herald-By Anna Leask The identity of a flight attendant at the center of police claims of a drinking and drug culture among Air New Zealand staff has been revealed. Details have also emerged of how the attendant, Wendy Collins, was referred to the company’s alcohol and drug specialist and advised to undertake an awareness programme to learn safe drinking guidelines before she was sacked....

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Miami: TSA Screener With Teenie Weenie Goes Postal

May 6, 2010
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Oops... Wrong X-ray file. "Oh Chip! Chip! Get in here will ya?!"

Miami Airport Screener Accused of Attack Over Jeers at Genitalia Miami, FL – A Miami airport screener, agitated at continued ribbing after colleagues saw his body parts in an imaging scanner, attacked a colleague, police said. A Miami International Airport federal security screener has been arrested for allegedly using an expandable police baton to beat up a co-worker. The source of their conflict, police say: daily ribbing about the size of the screener’s genitalia. Screener Rolando Negrin’s private body...

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Spanish Air Comet Flight Attendants Strip Nude for Calendar in Protest

April 3, 2010
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"Oops! I forgot to pick up my uniform at the cleaners"

Bare-celona Reporter 04/03/10 The calendar, numerous excerpts of which appeared in the Spanish media, shows the Air Comet attendants, all female, posing provocatively in and outside airline cabins, and in one case on top of a jet turbine. Flight attendants owed up to nine months’ wages by a grounded Spanish airline have posed nude for a calendar to draw attention to their plight, one of the cabin crew turned models said on Wednesday. “We are just demanding our rights...

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Air Canada Dismisses Crew Concerns About Suicidal Pilot

March 19, 2010
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The Canadian Press Friday Mar. 19, 2010 TORONTO Air Canada is standing by a pilot at the centre of a bizarre incident two years ago in which co-workers refused to fly with him, fearing he was suicidal and accusing him of threatening to ditch his aircraft in the Atlantic Ocean. The airline insisted Thursday that the eyebrow-raising circumstances emanating from a dispute aboard a Toronto-Paris flight in July 2008 amounted to nothing more than a minor conflict between staff and...

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Airline Crew Face Jail Over Sexy Texts – Dubai

March 17, 2010
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u r 2 hot. go 2 dunkin donuts now

(Reuters) – Two Emirates airlines cabin crew have been ordered jailed for three months in Dubai over sexually explicit text messages, the latest in a string of indecency cases against foreigners, a newspaper reported Wednesday. The pair, an Indian flight attendant and her cabin services supervisor, were convicted of “coercion to commit sin” over the messages and initially sentenced to six months in jail, The National newspaper said on its website, citing court documents. The sentence was reduced on...

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Ukraine Cockpit and Cabin Crew 10 Times Over the Legal Limit

March 10, 2010
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Hammered crew needed a designated crew

Pilots and Flight Attendants removed from Ukraine flight for being drunk. Uzbekistan News.Net Wednesday 10th March, 2010 Politicians and police authorities in Ukraine are investigating the airline industry after an incident on the main carrier. During the week, police were ordered to prevent a plane from taking off with a drunken crew. The pilots and cabin crew on the Ukrainian airline Donbassaero were found to be at least ten times over the legal limit. The inland flight was due...

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Flight Attendant Uniforms, Popular In Japan Sex Clubs

March 5, 2010
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JAL air hostesses pose wearing company's flight attendant uniform

Men in Japan love a woman in uniform, much to one airline’s frustration. Japan Airlines (JAL) is frantically trying to stop its flight attendant uniforms from being sold to sex clubs. The skirt-and-blazer ensemble is a hot commodity at the clubs, where dancers who play up the “sexy stewardess” stereotype can bring big business and some venues are even designed to look like the inside of an airplane. “JAL still has the reputation of having beautiful flight attendants,” photographer...

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Flight or FIGHT Attendants? Crew Catfight Cancels Flight

February 26, 2010
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A Pinnacle Airlines flight from Rochester, N.Y., to Atlanta was canceled after two flight attendants got into a fight, AJC.com reported. Friday, February 26    Two female flight attendants got into a verbal argument and the pilot decided to cancel the flight, Amy Howell, owner of Howell Marketing Strategies, which represents Pinnacle Airlines, told FoxNews.com. “They told us we had to get off the plane because stewardesses were fighting,” said passenger Corey Minton. The Delta Connection flight was operated by Pinnacle Airlines, which...

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The Staff~ Martha and Chip. Post a comment below!

January 30, 2010
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Martha & Chip

“Flying frequently ~ for a living!” ~ Based in beautiful San Francisco, Martha is a well seasoned Flight Attendant for a major US airline. Although friendly service is an important job requirement, Martha works tirelessly maintaining a safe, stable, and secure environment while hosting hundreds of somewhat unstable, often insecure, and not-always-friendly passengers stuffed inside a metal tube hurling through space at over 500 mph. Seems like a crazy life huh? It is. It’s Martha’s life, and she’s living...

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