A Missouri woman flying home from Phoenix after Christmas was arrested for running onto the tarmac after apparently spending too much time at the airport bar and not enough time looking at the departure board.
Vickie Meyers, 53, told police she was intoxicated and confused about the flight's scheduled departure time before she made a dash for her Spirit Airlines plane at Sky Harbor Airport on Sunday, according to Fox affiliate station KSAZ-TV.
Meyers, of Creve Coeur near St. Louis, missed the final boarding call and attempted to get on the plane by punching in a security passcode into a keypad at the gate door that was closed after all of the passengers had boarded.
Following her unsuccessful attempt to barge through the secured jetway, Meyers opened an adjacent emergency door with no trespassing signs in English and Spanish that lead to the tarmac.
Meyers ran down a flight of stairs and made a dash near the nose of the airplane in a bizarre bid to get the pilot's attention, but airport ground crew members stopped her as she approached the jet.
'She decided to go out the emergency doors, to the tarmac, and start arguing with grounds crews about why she should be let on the plane still,' passenger Bryan Jones told KSAZ-TV.
The workers held Meyers until police arrived, who escorted her back to the terminal before she was placed under arrest.
Meyers was booked into the Maricopa County Jail and charged with first-degree criminal trespassing, a felony.
Comments
Leave a Comment