Delta flight passenger launched homophobic attack on flight attendant, feds say
An airplane passenger was arrested after going on a homophobic rant and attacking a flight attendant on a Delta flight, according to federal authorities.
Christopher Morgan was detained April 22 after the flight from Atlanta to Phoenix landed, NBC News reported.
The feds said Morgan called the flight attendant a “queer” and a “f--”, according to The Daily Beast. Morgan admitted to the rant but denied any physical assault, investigators said.
The FBI said Morgan was rowdy from the start, refusing to put his seat up and getting upset when he was served a nonalcoholic drink, NBC News reported. After getting the drink, he whipped the ice at the flight attendant and called him a “queer,” according to the feds.
The Delta employee called the pilots to tell them about the unruly behavior, according to NBC News. Morgan responded by grabbing the phone from the man and throwing it at him, investigators said.
The feds said Morgan bizarrely used his own homophobic views as a defense when he was interviewed in Phoenix.
“He said that his homophobia may have caused his temper toward the flight attendant to escalate and he admitted that he called (the flight attendant) a queer,” FBI investigators wrote in a criminal complaint, according to The Daily Beast.
Morgan denied throwing the phone, but another passenger corroborated the flight attendant’s full story, the feds said. Morgan was charged with interference with flight crew members or attendants.
