A United pilot ranted about Trump, Clinton and divorce. Her passengers fled.
A United Airlines pilot arrived late to her flight in civilian clothing and ranted to passengers about her divorce and the presidential election. About 20 passengers disembarked the plane saying they didn’t feel safe with her in the cockpit and then the pilot herself was removed from the plane. (Reuters)
Passengers reportedly fled a flight before it could take off on Saturday — after a United Airlines pilot went on a bizarre rant over the intercom.
In a ball cap and casual shirt, the pilot remarked on her appearance after she boarded the flight at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport in the late afternoon, passenger Randy Reiss wrote on Twitter.
She got on in street clothes and asked if we were ok with her flying like that. We all said okay. Cute, right?
— Randy Reiss (@undeadsinatra) February 11, 2017
‘Then she says ‘sorry, I’m going through [a] divorce,’” Reiss wrote. “Ummmm uh oh.”
Reiss told BuzzFeed that other passengers even sympathized with “oh’s and aw’s” — at first.
But as her speech veered from her personal life into a string of non-sequiturs, the mood aboard the San Francisco-bound jet turned from cozy to uncomfortable, to worse.
Then she identified an interracial couple in first class, I think in…