JetBlue Attendant Held on Bail as His Lawyer Offers Details of Flight

Steven Slater, the JetBlue flight attendant Ken activated an exit Chute is a just-landed plane at Kennedy International Airport on a Dispute with a Passenger on Monday and slid Thurs notoriety, did Not post the $ 2,500 bail set by a Judge at at his arraignment Tuesday morning and Remains in custody. 

At the arraignment is a Felony charges of Reckless endangerment and Criminal atrocities in a packed room in the basement of the Criminal court in Queens, Mr. Slater's court-appointed lawyer, Howard Turman, Said That Mr. Slater's activation of the slide was Not Reckless. They Said Mr. Slater Followed The proper procedure for Activating the slide, checking out the window first to make mourning no one was on the Tarmac Ken Could Be Struck by it. 

Mr. Turman, of the Legal Aid Society, Offered an account of the flight, JetBlue from Pittsburgh in 1052, He Said That Justified Mr. Slater's actions ". They Told Reporters That Aid on the ground in Pittsburgh, had a female Passenger Been Physically and verbally abusive Thurs Mr. Slater "when they intervened as she squabbled with a male Passenger over access to the overhead luggage compartment. 

"The woman initially at Pittsburgh slammed into the overhead at his head," Said Mr. Turman of Mr. Slater. 

A Passenger on the flight, Greg Kanczes, Said That they saw a large, fresh-looking gash is Mr. Slater's forehead at the beginning of the flight. "It was about and inch-and-half long, and it was a big red mark or cut," Mr. Said Kanczes by phone Tuesday. "There was no bandage." 

In previous accounts Offered by the Authorities, Mr. Slater's main altercation with the passenger had come at the end of the flight, not the beginning, with the passenger pulling a bag out of the overhead compartment That Mr. Slater Struck in the head. The version Offered by Mr. Turman indicates a longer-brewing Conflict Between the two parties. 

Mr. Turman Said That on the ground at Kennedy, the female Passenger "was outraged and cursing" at Mr. Slater, Ken "wanted Thurs Avoid a Conflict." 

Law Enforcement Officials Said That on the passenger Cursed at Mr. Slater, who grabbed the intercom, Cursed her out, Passengers bid goodbye, grabbed a beer, and activated the inflatable exit Chute. 

When Asked why Mr. Slater chose to go Avoid the Conflict-taking by the emergency slide, Mr. Turman replied, "It was right there."