Serial killers are usually referred to by 3 names. What does 4 names say about an airline passenger?
31-year old Cody Sierra Marie Bryne body checked a flight attendant, pulled a Delta agent’s hair and twisted her breast while trying to travel from Salt Lake City to Portland on Thursday.
During board of the flight, she refused to clear the aisle depsite repeated instructions from a flight attendant. When she finally moved, she shoulder‑checked the crewmember into a seat. The captain ordered her off the aircraft.
Once escorted off the aircraft and back in the concourse, she tried to run into a secure area but was blocked by airline staff. That’s when she grabbed a Delta employee by the neck, pulled her hair, and then grabbed and twisted her breast.
After leaving the gate area, she ran toward the exit and was found trying to book a ticket on another airline. Naturally, she resisted arrest and two officers were needed to cuff her. Officers and staff noted the smell of alcohol odor, difficulty following directions (you think?), trouble walking, and that she had admitted drinking “three beers” earlier. The woman was charged with:
- sexual battery (class‑A misdemeanor)
- ssault (class‑B misdemeanor)
- interfering with a peace officer
- public intoxication.
According to Delta Air Lines,
Delta has zero tolerance for abusive, disruptive or unlawful behavior on our flights. The safety and security of our customers and crew is our highest priority, and we take all incidents seriously. While we do not comment on pending litigation, we are fully cooperating with law enforcement as the investigation proceeds.
Bryne was held at Salt Lake County Metro Jail and is expected in court this week. Because this occurred during boarding and then in the terminal, prosecutors charged state misdemeanors. She doesn’t face federal charges, as would have been the case if this had gone down inflight.
It’s always amazed me that airports sell so much alcohol before flights. Ryanair wants to limit that, of course they don’t want to limit their own alcohol sales onboard they just don’t want the competition.
During the pandemic, when airlines stopped serving alcohol onboard, there was a big raise in pregaming and also passengers bringing their own alcohol onto the aircraft. It turns out that serving alcohol on the plane is actually a way to manage consumption.
Several airlines have tried to get airport vendors to stop selling alcohol ‘to go’ on the theory that the only place you’re going to bring it is onto the plane, and that’s illegal. Of course you might also just bring it to your gate.
What airlines should be doing is properly staffing their gates so that gate agents are able to fulfill all of the standard duties – from properly processing upgrades, to boarding passengers and policing carry-on bags, to noticing when a passenger is about to ride the porcelein bus and deny them boarding. The drive to cut back on staffing costs has unintended consequences.
A Spirit refugee looking for a premium experience?
Paging @Matt…
@Tim Dunn, I’m assuming drunks misbehaving happens on other carriers, right?
@George N Romey, uh oh, mere state misdemeanors. They gon let her go, aren’t they? Cluster B?
Alcohol? 3 beers?
I’ll preface this comment by admitting that I can count in one hand the times I have had a drink in-flight or even pre-boarding…. But, the confession of 3 beers sounds more like she is trying to reduce the consequences of her behavior…. it’s likely 3 beers didn’t get her to that point of irresponsible conduct.
The woman was obviously unhinged in a manner that very likely did not result from drinking (or even chugging) 3 beers.
More inexcusable behavior in our metal tubes of transport. Go figure.
Any AI art of the purple nurple?
Isn’t 3 beers in Utah more like 1.5 based on alcohol limits? Or did they change that?
@Gary
c’mon now with that photo. Don’t ruin this for AUS flyers and the Salt Lick bar. The best breakfast tacos at any airport hands-down. God knows what Delta will do to ruin that but they’ll try.
A drunk DL flyer at a mormon airport shouldn’t ruin life for everyone else.
The “Premium” Delta experience.
going to portland kinda says a lot
@Alan — You know, some of us prase @Matt for his ‘please consider Delta’ comments, but, you, good sir, you’ve consistently praised Delta as the ‘premium’ airline, day in and day out, so, we should recognize your efforts, too. It ain’t much, but it’s honest work. I raise a cream-filled Biscoff in your honor.
Karen. Karen. Karen.
What have you done now?
@1990 – where is the key lime pie with the pie shell made from ground up biscoff cookies with a dollop of whipped cream together with crumbled biscoff cookies on top? Can any airline truly be considered premium without a gourmet dessert made from biscoff? To live, perchance to dream…
Three beers. Sounds like three beers as chasers.
‘Ride the porcelain bus’? I always heard it as ‘Pray to the porcelain god’.
3 beers and a titty-twister, is just a boring night out for most. But for a Mormon, that’s neigh apocalyptic. Good on Mrs 4-Names for creating some sturm amund drang, in an otherwise incredibly boring locale.
@Peter — I’m a sucker for the ice cream sundaes (with the Biscoff crumble!) in DeltaOne (and Flagship First/Business, and Polaris, wherever applicable, but they don’t do Biscoff.)
Is anyone (besides me) going to chime in noting that Gary has started using B.S. AI images in his blog posts? Shame, Gary. Shame…
@Doug Swalen — Where’ve you been, sir?! This isn’t new at all… next, you’ll tell us Gary occasionally has grammatical errors or misspellings… oh no!
@Doug
Which one is AI?
I see a Delta stock photo of a happy delta customer… Photo of SLC likely from the terminal.. A photo of a bloody Mary on AA. Then a photo taken from the salt lick bar in AUS pointing east… yum
@Doug
I will say this though. The SLC photo appears to be the old terminal so is… pre-2020?
I’m not sure what airline staffing has to do with this incident. And, as for staffing, DL is better than most with having at least two GAs supporting mainline flights. And, in all fairness, since the drama started during boarding on the plane, what would additional staffing have done to prevent this situation?
@MaxPower — I suspect Doug was whinin’ about the thumbnail for this post, you know, on the main page, which seems to have an AI-generated hypothetical photo of the perp detained by an officer. I mean, the stuff is getting better, but most can still recognize it’s not a real photo.
Does this mayhem happen outside the USA and the US based carriers? I think no.
@Robert J Fahr — Well, you think wrong, then; Gary posts about overseas incidents of air rage all the time. It’s a human misbehavior problem, not an US-based issue, and anywhere it happens is disappointing.
Sorry, I meant to say, ‘yeehaw, partner… yew betchur horses, this here’s as American as apple pie!!’
@Sandy
You are right. And Antifa protester / terrorist on their way to The People’s Republic of Portland to join the melee with all of the other unemployed or underemployed college kids with big student loan debt.
She will be let go with probation and of course there are some here that think that’s even awful. After all we’re supposed to feel sorry for people like this. Maybe she didn’t get enough mother’s breast milk as a toddler and therefore remained in a toddler like state of maturity.
Hopefully there’s a YT video in my feed over the next few days. At least these videos beat anything out in theaters.
Airport bars should have a two drink maximum but of course there’s money to be made, particularly on the taxes, so that’s not going to happen.
@George N Romey — Well, it depends. Is probation ‘effective’ at rehabilitating this individual, and others like her? If so, then, yeah, probably a good start, especially for those that so-readily blame for ‘mental health,’ but rarely fund the actual programs and resources needed to provide it for others.
Yeah, blame the milk, instead. Good call. Better be that ‘raw’ milk that all the yokels talkin’ up. Great for weight loss, if you don’t mind ‘how’ that’s achieved…
As to ‘two drinks,’ it really depends on the container and its contents. One could argue that a fifth of Jack is a drink; so 2x 750ml, yeah, that’d do the trick… I mean, less ‘fightin,’ more ‘knock’d out.’
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@Gary Leff — You’re gracious host, sir. Many thanks for putting up with the occasional antics. Do you see our IP addresses on your backend, or am I not paying my VPN enough these days? Bah!
@sandy and Coffee Please exactly my thoughts.. As we say in Spanish ‘no tengo pruebas pero tampoco dudas’ (I have no proof but no doubt either) I can almost visualize the blue/purple hair and the septum piercing
@BBK — Ah, so Spanish speakers also express prejudice. How silly and sad. No, in this case, the perpetrator is nothing like what you described (according to the NY Post, she’s just a white lady with blonde hair, probably not the description that fits your prejudice either). Yet, it’s not the ‘appearance’ of the perpetrator that’s the issue; the problem was her misbehavior. If she were wearing a red hat, that wouldn’t have been the issue either. This is not that hard.
Too bad they didn’t give her a good azz-kicking after she was taken into custody.
@Trickywars — No. You must not be from the USA; we are a country of laws, not bullies. What you suggest would likely violate the 8th Amendment protection against cruel and unusual punishment by the government to people in our country. So, it would be unjust to treat an alleged criminal that way. There are ways to de-escalate and remove people who are misbehaving without violence. And, like as a human being, you really shouldn’t wish harm on others either.