dude you really must never watch Fox News. Jane *Skinner, not Heller. She’s Roger Goodell’s wife, come on, get with it.

“Hey, buy an alarm clock and STFU!” Er, I would think that the duty owed to a paying passenger *might* extend a bit further. It’s a bizarro case to be sure, but if she had been ill and not just snoozing, the airplane co would face liability.

I’m not familiar with the anchor or her credentials, but even the kids at McDonald’s walk through the place before they lock the doors to make sure there’s no one left in the resturaunt. Heck, even in the Mannequin movies and the other films where folks get locked in a department store, there’s usually an elaborate plot or some kind of ruse that allows it to happen.

Sure, the passenger hasn’t experienced many real damages, but it’s not her responsibility to make sure that she’s not locked in somebody else’s airplane.

It is unusual for someone to be left on a plane. When I fly, and am on a connecting flight, I always see the flight attendants going through the plane checking each seat.

Give her her money back and a free round trip ticket to anywhere in the USA.

Can this be the stupidest interviewer in America? Typical Fox news, getting blonde bimbo airheads working because they look good on screen.

I cannoy believe the questions asked. She made it out that the poor woman that fell asleep was at fault. This is the airlines fault pure and simple and for her to try to pas it off is insane.

@notsofast: …and maybe she could re-enact it on Leno.

Magister says:
May 31, 2010 at 4:30 pm

@notsofast: …and maybe she could re-enact it on Leno.”

Why? He has an entire audience sleeping in his studio every night.

Tommy Christopher talking about someone doing a lousy job! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

@notsofast: http://www.instantrimshot.com/

Thanks, magister!

This is embarrassing. And that woman who fell asleep needs to get a grip!

“This is about bringing attention to what happened to me…”

As a former flight attendant I can tell you it was our job to check the aircraft before exiting to ensure all passengers had departed.

That said, this woman does come across as a moron. And the fact that she had a cell phone and didn’t call for help??

There was a story a couple/few weeks ago about a man that did the same thing – fell asleep, woke up in a hanger. I can’t help but wonder, based on her terrible interview, and the fact that she had a phone, if she didn’t perhaps hide somehow, and get left on purpose to cash out….

I don’t, however, think that any passenger should feel it necessary to set an alarm when flying. I don’t think it’s too much to ask for the flight crew to do a quick walk-thru to make sure everyone got off the plane. I can’t stand when people don’t do their jobs!

sarainitaly says:
May 31, 2010 at 8:40 pm
As a former flight attendant I can tell you it was our job to check the aircraft before exiting to ensure all passengers had departed.

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As a former television anchor with a national show. I can tell you it was our job to check the pulse of the people who are being interviewed to ensure that they have not departed.

Well, it’s a true as some other “stuff” on this site.

King, I don’t speak gibberish. I can’t decipher your comments.

What I enjoyed most were the questions on why she didn’t have someone call and wake her up.

Um. During flight, her phone would’ve been turned off?… Has this anchor not flown before?

Cactus says:
June 1, 2010 at 1:02 am

What I enjoyed most were the questions on why she didn’t have someone call and wake her up.

Um. During flight, her phone would’ve been turned off?… Has this anchor not flown before?

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I think she and Sara N. Italy may be “Two of the Few” who have never flown. But, the anchor has watched cable news.

The Real Royal King says:
June 1, 2010 at 7:24 am

yes, you’re right. I have never flown. I managed to be a flight attendant without ever actually flying. I moved to Italy and visit my family every year, without ever actually flying! It’s amazing. I just wiggle my nose, and voila! I am on a new continent!

What the f*ck is your problem RRK (besides the obvious)? I know you have the tiny limp dick issue to deal with, but your comments just don’t make any sense, what so ever. You seem to be desperately trying to insult me for no reason here, except to demonstrate, again, your case of tiny dick syndrome.

As always, Sara N. Italy, your filthy mouth impresses us all. What a shame you missed Fleet Week. You could have taught those sailors a thing or two.

I save it up just for you. I know how you like it.

(and look – more comments reinforcing your tiny dick syndrome! does it make you feel all manly inside? “oooh I insulted Sara again. I’m so manly!! I have a HUGE penis. I am such a man.”)

My Mother always told me “When you play with garbage, you stink.” I think I’ll not accompany you to the dump, if it’s all the same to you.

The Real Royal King says:
June 1, 2010 at 8:37 am
Then why the f*ck do you even start?

I made a completely innocuous comment about this story, and you felt the need (little dick syndrome) to try and mock me or attack me over them. What the hell was your point? You have this need to run around this site and attack people for no reason (little dick syndrome) and insult and poison the discussion.

I would be more than thrilled if you “not accompany me”. The whole site reeks because of you.

Folks, after listening to the video of the interview, two things are obvious.

1. Jane Skinner does not have her earpiece turned on so that the producer’s can tell her what to ask for her next question. She is winging it.

2. The woman interviewed by phone, but not visible online, is evidently seated beside her attorney who hears the question Jane Skinner asks, and is writing the answer to each question for her to then read back to Jane Skinner as her own answer. The explains the dead-air time with no verbal responses from the woman. The attorney evidently can’t write fast enough or the woman can’t read what the attorney writes, and so the attorney just writes, “I can’t say” and tha’t all that the woman will say.

The women are just the readers. The producers and the attorney are the hands behind the puppets here.

Otherwise, the airline is at fault for lack of security whether the woman actually was asleep or whether she hid. Al Qaeda is watching and learning.

The woman is at fault for stupidity.

Neither of these faults are legal crimes.

Case closed.

Ginger McGuire is obviously out for some money based on her own failure to get off the plane. There is no evidence she was even in her seat when the plane landed. She had a cell phone and could have called at any time. Is it possible other than being a retard that she also does not know how to use her cell phone? Naturally Jeffrey Feiger, the favorite attorney of idiots, has to get his fifteen minutes of fame. If any court anywhere awards this woman anything but a scorching indictment of her stupidity and doesn’t throw the case out, we will know that the justice system is worse than has been realized.

The woman wasn’t half-asleep during the interview, she was just dumbfounded by the stupidity of Jane Skinner’s questions. The woman is saying that the crew should have made sure everybody was off the plane before locking it up, just like they check the restrooms to make sure they’re empty. Suppose she was out cold because she’d had a stroke. I don’t know if she has a case in court, but she sure has a valid argument that United Airlines was negligent.

I have never seen “Snakes on a Plane” but it seems there is a simple solution to the problen of deadly ssrpents infesting an aircraft – turn off the heating. Yes do that and increase the ad mixture of outside air, drop the interior temp to say 37 or 40 degrees and by the end of the flight the snakes would be dead. Now as to missing sleeping or unconscious passengers. How about better in-flight movies?