Richardson, 23, claimed that the flight attendant, whom she refers to as “John,” allegedly insulted her while she was on the phone.
American track and field star Sha’Carri Richardson was thrown out of an American Airline flight following an altercation with a flight attendant on Saturday. Richardson, 23, claimed that the flight attendant, whom she refers to as “John,” allegedly insulted her while she was on the phone.
Richardson recorded herself in her seat in a video and then panned to the flight attendant. The athlete then posted the video of the entire incident to her Instagram account. In the video also Richardson allegedly complained to the camera that the flight attendant identified as “John” had “disrespected” her while she was talking on her phone just before takeoff.
Richardson was making a video clip where she is seen speaking to the camera when the altercation suddenly started. She claimed in her Instagram post that she did not like the tone the flight attendant used when ordering her to put down the phone, before claiming that he stood over her and demanded to look at the phone to see if it was in Airplane Mode since.
“Prior to the video this gentleman asked me to get off a cell phone call, I did,” Richardson wrote in the caption of one of her videos.
“I stated to him I didn’t like the tone he used with me. Following that while standing in front of me doing the safety protocols he continued to lean over to look at my phone. He asked to see that my phones were in airplane more at this point. He demanded that me show him. Which I did in front of him.
