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December 7, 2011 3:31 PM EST
Three women kicked off of an AirTran flight on Monday say a "bully" flight attendant is to be blamed, and are slamming the airline for hiring the "unbalanced" man who booted them from the plane.
The three passengers, who did not know each other before the Dec. 5 flight from West Palm Beach, Fla. to White Plains, N.Y., have since banded together at what they call disrespectful and at times frightening treatment by an AirTran flight attendant.
'I found myself shaking'
All three women were seated in the same section of the plane and were settling in during boarding when a male flight attendant reached for their overhead bin. Grabbing the bags above, the flight attendant began roughly handling the carry-on items.
"Hey, I have breakables in that," Marilyn Miller, one of the women later kicked off, says she told the unnamed attendant. Rather than be gentler with the bags, however, the attendant completely ignored her. He even began shoving others bags into hers.
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Miller couldn't believe what she was seeing. "It was just like a bully and I found myself shaking," she said.
"He said, 'Well, you're getting off.' I said, 'You've got to be kidding me,'" said Miller, who was escorted off of the plane into the jet-way.
"It was just like a bully and I found myself shaking."
'Why are you doing this to them?'
Carol Gray also got into trouble when she flagged down the same flight attendant a bit later, asking him for help with her seat.
"I said, 'Excuse me sir, my seat is broken,'" she told WPTV. "He looked at me and said, 'I'm not talking to you,' and poked me in the arm."
According to passengers on the plane, the male attendant then became irate, telling both women to get off the plane. Karyn Schorr, a third passenger who intervened, found herself kicked off the flight as well.
"I said, 'This is crazy, they didn't do anything. Why are you doing this to them?'" she recalls. "And he [the AirTran attendant] said, 'Throw her off, too.'"
Palm Beach County sheriff's deputies were called to the scene, standing by as the women were escorted off the airplane and taken to another gate.
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