Originally Posted by
Load Toad
If she had a partner that unstable - we can equally reason why she was away travelling. I don't want to be callous but we don't know enough about this case to make an absolute judgement.
It was in the original story
Karen was flying from New Orleans back to Milwaukee after taking a girls trip down south. The text came as flight attendants were doing their final cabin checks.
You are absolutely right, we don't know enough about this story.
My final comment:
The FAA recently looked at the use if electronic devices in all flight phases. It determined that there was little risk, provided the device is in flight mode. The ladies phone was not in flight mode and the FA instructed her to secure it. The FA does not have the discretion to allow calls contrary to the regulation.
We can second guess the FAs actions but we were not there. Nor can we know if a succesful call would have made any difference to the outcome.