A JetBlue flight attendant who became an internet hero after storming out of a plane with an expletive-filled intercom address and an escape down the emergency chute had bail set at $US2,500 today.
Steven Slater, 39, captured the sympathy of frustrated travellers and airline industry workers yesterday with his theatrical departure that was provoked by an altercation with a passenger aboard a jet that had just arrived at New York's John F. Kennedy international airport.
He has yet to post bail.
Slater, a 20-year veteran of the airline industry, cursed at the passenger on the plane's public address, announced he was leaving, grabbed a couple of beers from the galley and slid down the emergency chute that he had deployed, officials and news reports said.
Police arrested him at his home in the borough of Queens and charged him with felony criminal mischief and reckless endangerment.
A New York Daily News columnist called him a modern folk hero. After his court hearing was over, a Facebook page about him was "liked" by some 30,000 people.
"He's in a lot less trouble if he gets a jury of regular flyers," Fordham Law Professor Jim Cohen said.
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