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So who was that man who slid down the inflatable chute, beer in hand? Was he a folk hero, a real-life Howard Beale who found a way to channel his workaday frustrations? Or was he wrong to have his say on the intercom and then turn an expensive piece of airline equipment into a personal ejection device, probably in violation of federal regulations? Steven Slater, 38, the JetBlue flight attendant who was the first person off a just-landed plane at Kennedy International Airport on Monday after a dispute with a passenger, has his fans. By midday Tuesday, when he remained in custody after a judge had set bail at $2,500, more than 30,000 Facebook users had indicated that they ''liked'' a page apparently set up as a tribute. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
