On Sunday, a 27-year old man flying Miami to Newark began harassing passengers and crew including threats of physical violence aimed at a disabled minor and antisemitic comments directed at a group of Jewish passengers.
Once beverage service ended, Luis A. Vaquero of Passaic, New Jersey demanded a cocktail. A flight attendant refused, and the man reportedly said “You better watch out, sh**’s gonna happen to you.”
While annoying, the situation didn’t get worse and the plane continued to its destination. On arrival, everyone was asked to remain seated while law enforcement boarded the aircraft. The man surged forward and began pounding on the cockpit door, demanding, “I need the pilot to come outside!” A flight attendant attempted to intervene, and the man began yelling “I will really break your f****** jaw,”
accompanied by racist epithets.
Later, when the captain emerged from the cockpit, came within six inches of him shouting “I wanna see that f****** captain! Come outside you bitch ass n****!” Naturally, Vaquero was arrested and he has been charged with interference with flight crew members and attendants by assault or intimidation and faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and $250,000 fine.
United, American and Spirit all fly Newark – Miami and authorities haven’t released which airline this occurred on. I’d guess Spirit, American and United in that order of likelihood.
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Finally, actually arrested and charged. No fly list. Done.
Does Spirit serve alcohol? That’s mistake no. 1.
And these idiots wonder why voting shouldn’t be given to everyone.
When Luis A. Vaquero requests a cocktail, you get it for him. He must get parched from all the screaming, yelling and anti-Semitic rhetoric. The cocktail recipe should include 4-5 sleeping pills and a handful of Prozac.
If it was AAL they will drop charges before he gets sentenced… they don’t want to lose a customer for 20 years…it’s better to lose an employee to a customer in their mind.
@Alex — Can you ‘point on the doll’ where AA hurt you? I’m all for the crews and the passengers over corporate greed, but I think your ‘outrage’ is misplaced–the perp is the problem here.
@1990 please don’t tell us your fantasies. Beyond that. Seen it a few times. And , feel free to inquire, the policy is the corporation will never press charges on a paying customer. It is up to the employee involved , if they want to, and the Co. Will ” facilitate” by giving the employee the needed time to appear in court.
Why did you sensor n*****. Based on his name, I assume he said it without a hard “r” so you don’t need to sensor that.
@Alex — Nice semantics you got there. Since you’re the ‘expert,’ glad you could clarify for us. If so, hopefully the employee will be given a chance and a choice as to whether to ‘press charges.’ Otherwise, no need to defame airlines or crews–once again, it was the prep who misbehaved.
1. Arrest 2. Take to jail 3. Set very high bail 4. If convicted (in this case the evidence is overwhelming) throw in prison for a few year 5. Put on permanent no fly list
Result? We’d see incidents go back to 1970s level. Treat wild animals like wild animals.
@Hal — Gary is a class act. Such profanity should be ‘bleeped.’ Or, maybe you think bigotry is now acceptable? I don’t. Many of us don’t. In fact, the bigots are still out-numbered. Don’t forget.
Gary you’re deleting posts again. Why did you guess what airline he was on in that order? What purpose does it serve besides showing your bias/shilling?
Where’s Chuck Norris when you really need him?
@Stop – why would I delete that?
Crazy incidents seem to disproportionately happen on Spirit (and certain relative to passenger volume) and much more often on American than United.