Customer hits Frontier flight attendant with intercom phone, airline says
A Frontier Airlines plane lands at the McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas on Thursday, Feb. 27, 2020. (Elizabeth Page Brumley/Las Vegas Review-Journal/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)
DENVER - A customer became so upset that she picked up an intercom phone and struck a flight attendant with it, according to Frontier airlines.
The company said it happened Sunday morning on a flight from Denver to Tampa while the plane was awaiting departure.
According to the airlines, the customer became belligerent while onboard and asked to deplane.
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As she deplaned, she hit the flight attendant.
The airline said Denver law enforcement arrested her, and the flight left for Tampa.
This story was reported from Los Angeles.
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