For now it looks like she is no longer with the company from this news update linked below:
HOUSTON - Sources have confirmed a picture obtained by Channel 2 News features the United Airlines flight attendant who was fired after she intentionally opened an emergency slide.
Video shows Julia Price opening a plane door and inflating the emergency slide after the aircraft landed Monday at Bush Intercontinental Airport. The Federal Aviation Administration is now investigating the incident.
Maybe the union will get her job back or she will sue United to get a settlement, I've seen it happen in more egregious cases over the years.
How about giving them adequate working and pay conditions intead?
Fortunately, she acted out whatever problems she has in a non-life-threatening manner.
Perhaps she was bullied or felt reduced inclusivity and wanted to send a message with her actions. Or needed to retreat to a 'safe space' to find refuge from perceived income inequality.
At least she remembered to take her luggage before deplaning:
The plane had just landed at IAH around noon from Sacramento. After the chute deployed, Price first throws her bag to the ground nearly 15 feet below and then she slides down the inflated slide to depart the aircraft.
Flight attendants are trained for this sort of thing in an emergency, and Price apparently took that training seriously, sliding down the chute in textbook fashion.
A F/A who does that should see the inside of a jail cell for at least 30 days.
She needs help more that she needs punishment. Love the punitive retributive society in which we live.
Obviously a drunk passenger who popped a slide or otherwise interfered with the safe operation of the aircraft would expect to be facing significant federal charges.
However, in this case we are assured that Ms. Price did nothing illegal by intentionally popping a slide:
Channel 2 Legal analyst Brian Wice says in his opinion it’s unlikely this flight attendant will be charged with a crime.
“I can’t see any wrong doing on a local state or federal level that this flight attendant might have engaged in,” he said. "She didn’t act to put herself, the flight crew or any of those passengers that are on the United plane at risk.”
Video of the former flight attendant exiting the plane in this updated article:
United flight attendant fired after emergency slide exit at IAH