JetBlue flight attendant fled plane via slide; headed home to have sex

Steven Slater, a JetBlue flight attendant with two decades-plus experience, used an emergency exit slide and fled from the plane, JetBlue Flight 1052.

According to The Associated Press, Slater got into a verbal spat with a passenger on a jetliner arriving at John F. Kennedy International Airport on Monday from Pittsburgh.

The whole drama started when a passenger stood up to fetch luggage from an overhead compartment while the plane was still moving, and when Slater instructed the person to remain seated, the passenger refused and then cursed him out.

Slater was reportedly enraged when the passenger refused to apologize after accidentally striking him with luggage.

Slater’s ranting on plane’s PA system
The attendant then got on the plane’s public-address system and cursed the passenger for all to hear, the Port Authority of New York told AP.

"To the f---ing a--hole who told me to f--- off, it's been a good 28 years," he purred, cops said.

"I've had it. That's it," he added, according to New York Daily News, citing a passenger on board.

Slater was reportedly enraged when the passenger refused to apologize after accidentally striking him with luggage

Slater’s dramatic exit from plane
He then grabbed a beer from the galley and then deployed an emergency exit slide and fled the plane, the authorities said. Then he ran to the employee parking lot and drove off, they said.

Slater was later arrested in his home in Bell Harbor, Queens, a few miles from the airport.

Port Authority of New York and New Jersey police arrested him on charges of criminal mischief, reckless endangerment and trespassing, according to the AP report.

“When they hit that emergency chute, it drops down quickly within seconds,” New York Times quoted a law enforcement official as saying. “If someone was on the ground and it came down without warning, someone could be injured or killed.”

Headed home to have sex
According to the Daily report, after pulling the emergency exit and exiting the airplane, Slater headed straight home to have sex with his boyfriend.

The publication says that cops found him in bed with his boyfriend when they arrived to arrest him at his beach front home.

There he boasted to skeptical cops that he really did escape by the emergency chute with his carry-on luggage.

"Oh yes I did! I threw them down first and I went down after," he told cops.

JetBlue cooperating with authorities
Meanwhile, JetBlue said it was working with the Federal Aviation Administration and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey to investigate the incident.

“At no time was the security or safety of our customers or crew members at risk,” the company said in a statement.