American Airlines crew member scolds passengers for making Charlotte-bound flight a 'living hell'

A flight attendant on board an American Airlines flight headed to Charlotte was caught scolding passengers who verbally abused crew members in a video posted to TikTok

The video showed a male passenger calling out obscenities to the flight attendant he called a "fat gorilla" as Brent Underwood, a North Carolina man recording the video, calls out the inappropriate behavior, the Charlotte Observer reported.  "There was absolutely no excuse for it," Underwood told the Charlotte Observer. "It doesn’t matter what you look like. Everybody deserves respect. And everybody deserves to be punished equally for being a rude person like that. Why would you call a person a fat gorilla?"  Part 1. @officialamericanairways on 6/7flight from LAX-NC was diverted to Raleigh because of bad weather. We refueled and we’re waiting to take off. Another flight attendant, meanwhile, explained to passengers the flight would land in Raleigh after it was refueled when a sarcastic passenger made a remark that the flight was diverted because the attendants hadn’t eaten, according to the video.