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...
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