A woman late to her plane became irate, was put in handcuffs and was later found dead in a holding cell, police said. Authorities were investigating Saturday if the woman choked herself while trying to get free from the handcuffs.
Carol Ann Gotbaum, 45, of New York, was arrested Friday at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport after a conflict with gate crews who refused to allow her to board a plane, said Sgt. Andy Hill, a Phoenix police spokesman.
The airline said the plane was already preparing to depart. She was rebooked on the next flight, but “she became extremely irate, apparently running up and down the gate area,” US Airways spokesman Derek Hanna said Saturday.
Officers handcuffed her and took her to the holding room, where she kept screaming, authorities said. Hill said officers checked on her when she stopped screaming and found her unresponsive.
Hill said it appears Gotbaum may have tried to get out of her handcuffs, became tangled in the process and the cuffs ended up around her neck. A cause of death will be determined by the Maricopa County Medical Examiner.
#41 – My understanding was that before they officially opened the Denver Airport, they discovered a problem with the runways that required re-paving so it would be safe to put a jumbo jet down on it.
OhForTheLoveOf
The problem was in the men’s room. The floor was initially rubber and instead of frantic taping by the horny, it was a symphony of squeaks.
39–An attractive divorced mother of one told me that I had a “White Knight Syndrome” and that I needed to save people. I asked her why she thought I was attracted to her. She became insulted and left. Oh My!!!!
Some truth to that. But initial attraction has always been physical. After that, everyone has good and bad qualities. I tend to focus on the good until the bad predominate.
Question to her: “Gee, aren’t you being a bit passive-agressive?” Yes, I’m the Queen of Passive Agressive. Oh My!!!! So, I’ve learned to spot the bad a little bit sooner and try to minimize it in myself.
So why do you blog? – - Oh My!!!!!! Its an acquired taste.
- – - – -and so it goes.
So, yes, I think that woman was being a bitch at the airport. If anyone would rather say she was upset and being unreasonable===same thing. Most words gain most of their meaning from their context.
40. ““Woman killed by airport security” Where do you find the rationale for that conclusion/accusation?”
It’s fixed.
The chain in this case is 18 – 24″ long and goes through an eye bolt in the seat. It gives the detainee a limited ability to move about. A flexible and motivated person can get their hands in front of their body. Without dislocating or breaking anything.
Sounds like she was murdered to shut her up. A cover up of a murder.
Only in America could some woman think that missing a flight be enough to become irate about and then act like the whole world revolved around her enough to create a scene and become a drunk, irrational moron.
So she strangles herself? How sad….and yet….it’s not that sad.
I mean, I guess it could be sad if she was chamically imbalanced and half off her rocker….but this stinks of a spoiled-brat bitch who thought the world was hers.. That she was above all those “lowely” airline workers and how dare they delay her all important life! How dare she be inconvenienced! For she is the most important person in that airport and how dare they not know it!
While working in the service industry I came acrossed many, many people like her. So, you’ll have to pardon me while I chuckle a little that one of them acted like this and paid the ultimate price for self-righteous stupidity…..