American Airlines Kicks Out Passenger for Singing Whitney Houston’s 'I will Always Love You'
A passenger was dragged off the American Airlines flight when she refused to stop singing "I will Always Love You", E reports. By the way she was singing, it was hard to recognize if she was, indeed, singing Whitney Houston's rendition of the song or it was Dolly Parton's 1874 original version of the song.
To make the singing incident worse, the airlines was compelled to make an emergency landing in Kansas City just to get rid of the passenger who was still unstoppable as she was being taken out of the coach section. The American Airlines flight left Los Angeles International airport at about 3:30 in the afternoon and was originally set to a direct flight heading to John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York.
Kansas City International Airport spokesman Joe Mc Bride said:"The woman was being disruptive and was removed from the plane for interfering with the flight crew. There was a federal air marshall on the aircraft, who subdued the woman and out her in cuffs and removed her from the plane."
The incident was likened to a scene from the move The Bridesmaids when lead actress Kristen Wiig was so drunk in the plane that she was forced out of a plane through an emergency landing.
The woman was eventually released without charges but was not allowed to ride American Airlines to where she was supposedly headed.
In as much as staff of American Airlines was strict to warn other passengers that "You cannot take pictures on the airplane!" a portion of the said performance was captured by video and was already viral in the internet.
The incident became all the more amusing when the women tried to reach the highest note and strain her throat just as she was being escorted out of the plane by the air marshals.
The unruly women started to draw attention even before the plane leaves the airport as recalled by Max Paul of NBC news who was also riding the same plane. He told E that the "Whitney wannabe got into a heated argument with another lady. It was so intense that I thought it might get physical but the other woman walked away and that was the end of it."
Paul recalls that "Not long after the flight took off I heard loud singing coming from the back on the plane at it wasn't until about two hours into the flight that the singing became loud and annoying. Some passengers were amused and laughing but others were clearly not happy and tried to drown out the sound with their personal headphones."
"Finally the singing stopped and was replaced by screaming. The air marshall came back and failed to calm her down, so the pilot came on and informed us that because of this unruly passenger we were being diverted to Kansas City. It seemed like the singing got louder after that."
Paul describes her singing as unpleasant.
The woman blamed her being diabetic as the reason why she engaged in such disorderly behavior.