Santonio Holmes Cited for Behavior on Airplane
by John B on Apr 30, 2010 2:43 PM EDT
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PrintSantonio Holmes was part of an incident on a flight yesterday.
Santonio Holmes is in hot water less than a month after the Jets acquired the mercurial wide receiver from the Pittsburgh Steelers. The team confirmed that an incident report was filed by the Alleghany (Pa.) County Police Department stemming from Holmes’ failure to turn off his iPod during the landing of a flight from Newark to Pittsburgh Thursday night.
According to the team, Holmes walked off the plane before police officers at Pittsburgh International Airport reminded him about complying with the FAA regulations. No charges were filed.
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"I don’t know all the facts," Rex Ryan said after the first practice of the Jets’ rookie mini-camp today. "I know what’s been told to me. It kind of got blown out of proportion, it’s almost like in some of the media outlets."
Yup, a guy not turning off an IPod on an airplane is now national news.
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How could they kick off a Jet out of a plane?
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by dvdvil on Apr 30, 2010 2:53 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs
Obviously the IPod was part of a plot for Santonio to take over the Plane. Good thing they reacted like they did and saved the day.
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I never understood why you have to turn your iPod, CD player, etc. off but I guess it’s so you can hear if there are emergency instructions. Nonetheless, rules is rules. I’ve been stubborn like that in the past, but it shouldn’t come to the point where you get kicked off the plane.
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The FAA conducted a sutdy about 15 years ago which showed that electronic devices when turned on during takeoff and landing could cause certain aircraft flight instruments to malfunction. That is why they make you turn off all electronic devices during takeoff and landing.
Not sure if thats true or not
But I know that in a magazine I was reading on a plane recently it had a sort of FAQ section about common stuff on airplanes. This was one of them. It just said that having electrical devices on during take off and lading can interfere with the radio waves being transmitted from the pilots to the ATC. It won’t cause an airplane to crash, but the static makes it hard for the pilot to hear what to do (which could possibly a big deal if there is an emergency).
Yeah its not a big deal, but its an even less of a deal for Tone to just turn his damn iPod off for 30 minutes.
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What the media did not tell you.
by John Stephens on Apr 30, 2010 3:50 PM EDT up reply actions
Technology HAS improved significantly
but it’s one of those deals where the chances of interference are really really small, but the consequences are really really bad, so why not be prudent for 20 minutes post and pre landing?
May the wind be always at your back, and may your placekicker have icewater in his veins.
this is dumb news, maybe dumber then the Ireland/Bryant/Prostitute story
but way to start off on the right foot Santonio lol
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It shouldn’t be national news, but how hard is it to turn the damn thing off for 10 minutes. You know you are surrounded by a ton of people that are willing to spill the beans if you put one foot out of place. Your a 26 year old man, grow the hell up, it’s not like it was a unique request for that flight. Every flight I have ever been on you have had to shut off all electrical equipment because it could interfere with the planes electrical equipment, it’s standard procedure. . Stupid news but the guys just needs to grow up a little
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It’s stupid news for sure. But it does answer a question I had about Holmes. This guy is an asshole. It takes a special kind of moron to tell a stew go eff off when shes asking you too take out your ear buds. But get used to it Jet fans. We asked for this kind of attention when we started collecting players with “questionable ethics”. Every media outlet will jump at the chance to take stupid news like this and make this team out to be a bunch of morons. This won’t be the last time we have to deal with the dumb antics these players are goin to pull.
by colinyoung on Apr 30, 2010 4:07 PM EDT up reply actions
The latest report says he comlied with the flight crew so mabye he isnt such an ass.
by colinyoung on Apr 30, 2010 4:10 PM EDT up reply actions
I wasn’t there just like everyone else wasn’t there so every one of us could be wrong about what happened but in my opinion when a story (or non story) like this comes out it seems to me to be a witch hunt. I know I’ve been on numerous flights and usually there is the announcement and then the flight attendant comes around and asks people to turn off their electronics and raise their seat backs. Maybe it was an Iphone and he had it in airplane mode and assumed that was enough. If he really created a scene I’m sure that if there were an air marshall on the plane they would have beat him down if it was that serious or they would not let anybody off the plane till they came on and cuffed him. It’s probably some Steelers or Patriots fan that recognized him and just wanted to make life difficult. Either way my disclaimer still stands…I wasn’t there so I don’t know just like possibly none of you were there. Either way judgement should be reserved until the TSA says what they found.
Apparently this is a total non-story.
Allegheny County police said in a statement that Holmes was not removed from the flight, contrary to some published reports.
"He was asked to remove his iPod (at one point), in which he complied," the statement said.
http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/news;ylt=AqCT9k19paU7YgZBHPSCHpDubYF?slug=ap-jets-holmes-flightflap
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They had to ASK him to remove it?? I’ve never seen this happen before. Ridiculous.
I hope you are being sarcastic or I might assume that you have never been on a flight.
by Mac N Cheese on Apr 30, 2010 3:58 PM EDT up reply actions
I believe if this incident would have happen, Mr. Holmes would had been arrested.
So what really happen?
Apparently he was asked to turn off his ipod, which he did, but he left in the ear buds, so the stweard reported his ace. Silly really. Even sillier that reports surfaced that he got booted off the plane.
Sooooo....
Since when is having the ear buds in your ears proof that the iPod is even turned on?
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It was a flight attendant on a power trip no doubt...
I’ve seen it a bunch of times, so many have a huge chips on their shoulders, customer service on airlines, is absolutely the worst.
I know this is hard to say about pro athletes nowadays, but I actually feel sorry for the guy. He is under the microscope, with his troubled past and now that he plays in New York. If this was any other athlete, would it have made national headlines? Like Ryan said he should have just turned it off but to read reports suggesting this is going to prompt the commish to suspend him for a year are just plain dumb and ridiculous!
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