Woman has meltdown on plane after being ‘refused wine’
A woman has been branded a ‘Karen’ after she was caught on camera shouting and screaming at exasperated flight staff.
Passengers watched on in shock as the dispute ensued aboard the United Airlines aircraft on July 25.
The woman – her identity unknown – had reportedly been denied the chance to be served alcohol.
In the clip, she can be heard slurring her words as she shouts at the airline staff.
One flight attendant says to the woman: ‘You came on the plane with wine, I was nice enough to let you on the aircraft. I could have made you stay in Houston.’
At points, passengers intervene and try to calm the woman down but have little success.
The flight – from Houston to LA – had to be diverted to Phoenix as a result of the incident.
After the woman bickers with the flight’s other occupants, a staff member says: ‘We are going to divert, you are going to go to jail.’
Weary passengers then tell the women to ‘sit the f**k down.’
Posting the video on Tiktok, Blake Perkins captioned the post: ‘Yesterday was insanity. Had our entire flight landed so she could get arrested because she couldn’t get wine on the flight.
‘We had to land so she could be arrested but also free in flight entertainment.’
The woman was met by law enforcement officals after arriving in Phoenix and was removed from the plane.
‘The customer has been barred from future United flights while we review this matter,’ United Airlines airline said in a statement.
It’s the latest in a series of headline-grabbing incidents aboard flights in America.
In shocking footage posted last Friday, a woman can be seen squatting inside a Spirit Airlines plane, holding her trousers down.
She can be heard saying to crew members filming her: ‘I need to p**s two hours, you tell me I cannot — you close the doors.’
‘Say hello to the camera,’ a staff member replies.
Elsewhere, a video showed two women hurling abuse at each other while being urged to ‘shut up’ by fellow passengers.
After repeated attempts from the plane crew to defuse the situation, Frontier Airlines flight 2143 from Philadelphia to Las Vegas had to be diverted to Denver, where the two women were escorted off the aircraft and hauled off to the police.
Footage recorded by another passenger shows a woman wearing a red tank top shouting loudly and flailing her arms around while other passengers attempted to shush her.
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