Video Captures Delta Pilot Smacking Woman to Break Up Fight -<br />By MAYA SALAMAPRIL 29, 2017<br />In the latest airline episode captured on video, two women can be seen exchanging blows on a jet bridge at the Atlanta<br />airport on April 21 when a Delta Air Lines pilot appears to grab one woman and smack her before stepping back.<br />The pilot has since returned to work, Delta officials said, because their investigation revealed<br />that “his actions de-escalated an altercation between passengers.”<br />The police responded to the dispute at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, Delta said.<br />Delta officials said in a statement on Saturday that they immediately removed the pilot from duty after being made aware last week<br />of the scuffle, which occurred as passengers were deplaning Flight 1827, which flies between Atlanta and Fort Lauderdale, Fla.<br />The episode comes on the heels of a high-profile debacle, in which a United Airlines passenger, Dr. David Dao,<br />was dragged off an overbooked plane this month in Chicago by airport police to make room for United staff.<br />United has since reached a settlement with Dr. Dao, who has said<br />that he suffered a concussion and a broken nose and lost two teeth as a result of the episode.<br />This past week, an American Airlines flight attendant was suspended after he grabbed a stroller from a woman traveling with young children<br />and argued with other passengers on April 21 at San Francisco International Airport.
