CABIN ATTENDANT RPT; B737; ORD-SJC. 2 MALE PAX DISPLAYED PORNOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE TO EVERYONE; PUT PORNOGRAPHIC DRAWINGS ON PICKUP TRAYS. VERBAL; SEXUAL ASSAULT OF CREW.

Date: 2000-03 · Aircraft: B737 Undifferentiated or Other Model · Phase: cruise

Anomalies: deviation-discrepancy-procedural-published-material-policy|flight-deck-cabin-aircraft-event-other-unknown|flight-deck-cabin-aircraft-event-passenger-misconduct

Synopsis

CABIN ATTENDANT RPT; B737; ORD-SJC. 2 MALE PAX DISPLAYED PORNOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE TO EVERYONE; PUT PORNOGRAPHIC DRAWINGS ON PICKUP TRAYS. VERBAL; SEXUAL ASSAULT OF CREW.

Narrative

2 MALE PAX SEATED IN AFT SECTION OF COACH OBSERVED TO BE VIEWING PORNOGRAPHIC MATERIAL BY FLT ATTENDANT #2. (THOUGH I WAS ON THE CART WITH HER; I DID NOT ACTUALLY SEE THE MAGAZINE; AS I WAS ON THE OTHER END.) SHE ASKED THEM TO PUT THIS AWAY; AS IT WAS INAPPROPRIATE ON AN AIRPLANE. A MALE PAX ACROSS THE AISLE VOLUNTEERED TO HER THAT HE ALSO FOUND IT OFFENSIVE. THEY ARGUED WITH HER BRIEFLY ABOUT THIS AND MADE IT CLR THEY WEREN'T HAPPY ABOUT IT; BUT PUT IT AWAY. THEY MADE SEVERAL SNIDE AND PROVOKING COMMENTS IN THE NEXT HR; WHICH WE LARGELY IGNORED. WE WERE PICKING UP THE STYROFOAM BASKETS IN WHICH BREAKFAST WAS SERVED; WHEN ANOTHER MALE PAX (SAME ONE WHO TOOK OFFENSE TO THEIR MAGAZINE) QUIETLY POINTED OUT SOMETHING ON THE BASKETS. ON ONE; THEY HAD MADE A GRAPHIC DRAWING OF MALE ANATOMY. ON THE OTHER; THEY WROTE 'ACR X SUCKS IT.' FLT ATTENDANT #2 CARRIED THESE TO THE CAPT; WHO CAME BACK TO TALK TO THE PAX INVOLVED. PRIOR TO THAT; I TOLD THEM AFTER SEEING THE BASKETS; QUIETLY AND CALMLY; THAT THERE WERE EXPECTED RULES OF BEHAVIOR ON AIRPLANES AND THAT IT WAS IN THEIR BEST INTEREST TO ABIDE BY THESE. AS CAPT YY TURNED TO WALK AWAY; ONE OF THE PAX CALLED HIM A 'JACKASS.' UPON LNDG; THE INCIDENT WAS BRIEFLY DESCRIBED TO THE GATE AGENT BY FLT ATTENDANT #2; WHO ALSO SHOWED HER THE BASKETS. THE GATE AGENT; APPARENTLY; CONTACTED CUSTOMER SVC AND I WAS LATER TOLD THAT THEY WERE REFUSED FURTHER TRAVEL ON TO THEIR CONNECTING FLT; BECAUSE OF 'SEXUAL HARASSMENT.'

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