Originally Posted by JS

Never happened to me, but on a related note...

On a UA flight into LAX, a man sitting behind me started talking on his cell phone a few minutes before landing (his phone rang).

He talked for about 10 seconds, and then a flight attendant approached him and said, "Were you using a cell phone?" He answered in the affirmative, and the flight attendant said that he was going to report him to the captain.

OK, at this point, I figure, fair enough -- you aren't supposed to use a cell phone in the air, although reporting it to the captain isn't really necessary IMHO.

However, this flight attendant must have thought, "Now's my chance", and after tellling the passenger that he was going to report him to the captain, he followed by saying, "What are you trying to do, crash the plane?"

If I were the passenger, I would have sued that flight attendant for slander. Talking on a cell phone is not going to crash the plane!

This is just one example of what I have observed over the last couple of years. Now you know why I post some harsh sayings about flight attendants on this board, especially regarding UA? While not all flight attendants are power-hungry jerks, there are way too many of them, and they need some serious re-training, or better yet, a pink slip.