Steven Slater, a Jet Blue attendant, was arrested after he quit his job in spectacular fashion. The flight attendant was at the end of a flight on Jet Blue in New York, when he got into an altercation with a passenger that drove him to his breaking point.

The airline horror story takes place on Monday (August 9) on JetBlue Flight 1052 from Pittsburgh to New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport.

The altercation reportedly began when a passenger tried to retrieve a bag from the overhead compartment before the plane was stopped.  


According to the NY Daily News, Slater was a bit worse for wear after the bag the passenger was trying to retrieve hit him in the head from the overhead compartment.

Reports claim he had a small cut where the bag hit him in the head. After some sort of heated exchange of words, the passenger reportedly cursed him, and Slater decided to quit in spectacular fashion.


In a classic “take this job and shove it moment,” the new American folk hero grabbed the microphone and addressed the passengers on the airplane.

“To the f—–g a–hole who told me to f–k off, it’s been a good 28 years,” Slater, 38, said over the speakers, according to police. “I’ve had it. That’s it,” he added, a passenger said.  


The man then grabbed a couple of beers from the refreshment cart, grabbed his bags and pulled the emergency chute.  

After his announcement – the attendant tossed his bags down the slide – and beers in hand, bolted off the jet via the emergency chute. He walked to his car and drove away and authorities were called.  


The Daily News claims he then went home and had sex with his boyfriend, which is where the law finally caught up with him.  

According to the Associated Press, he was “arrested at his nearby home in the Belle Harbor section of Queens by Port Authority of New York and New Jersey police on charges of criminal mischief, reckless endangerment and trespassing.”  


Slater has now made bail.

On Tuesday night (August 10) he was released and was picked up by a minivan and driven away, ABC News reveals. The report adds that Department of Correction spokesman Stephen Morello doesn’t have details on who posted the ,500 bail.

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