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Hundley
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Feb. 19: An apparent extreme “unruly flier” episode has the subject of passenger etiquette back in the news again this week.
The FBI intervened in this latest incident, in which a 60-year-old man is accused of using a racial slur before slapping a crying 2-year-old boy in an effort to quiet the child on a February 8 Delta Air Lines flight from Minneapolis/St Paul to Atlanta. The man, identified as Joe Rickey Hundley of Hayden, Idaho, is unrelated to the boy, who was the child of a woman sitting near him, according to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
In addition to the charges Hundley faces, he also is now out of a job because of the incident. It was unclear if he was fired or resigned.
Jessica Bennett of Minneapolis — the mother of the 2-year-old — said that her boy began crying as the cabin pressure changed during the flight's descent into Atlanta. That’s when Bennett alleges that Hundley hurled a racial slur at her child along with a command to quiet the child.
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