TRANS-ATLANTIC FREAKOUT FORCES EMERGENCY LANDING …
|| By FITSNEWS || A partner with the Nelson Mullins law firm caused a US Airways flight from Charlotte, N.C. to London, England to make an emergency landing in Philadelphia last week.
The partner – 41-year-old Sarah Buffett – works out of the firm’s Charlotte office.
According to the criminal compliant against the fiery redhead, she allegedly “assaulted and intimidated US Airways flight crew members and attendants” after the plane took off from Charlotte at around 11:15 p.m. EDT last Tuesday. In fact the complaint alleges that “the flight crew needed the assistance of passengers on board to place (Buffett) in handcuffs and physically restrain her.”
In addition to being handcuffed, Buffett’s legs were taped together to prevent her from kicking.
What happened? Good question.
Shortly after takeoff Buffett – who was sitting in first class – reportedly became “physically aggressive and was damaging her seat and the immediate area around her seat.”
“She attempted to smash the airplane window with the entertainment system remote,” the complaint noted, adding that Buffett allegedly “got out of her seat and was acting in a menacing manner in front of the cockpit door.”
Yikes.
That’s when pilots decided to turn the plane around – eventually landing in Philadelphia shortly before 4:30 a.m. EDT last Wednesday.
Buffett told investigators she had taken a Zaleplon for her insomnia in addition to consuming “at least three glasses of wine.” She claims she remembers telling the flight attendant on the plane not to serve her dinner – but blacked out after that.
“Her next memory was of being physically restrained by an unknown male,” the report stated.
Hate it when that happens, right?
Buffett has been charged with intimidating a flight crew member and interfering with a flight crew member’s duties – both of which are outlawed under 49 U.S. Code § 46504.
If found guilty, she could face up to twenty years in prison – as well as fines.
Buffett’s bio has been removed from the Nelson Mullins website, but a screengrab from The Wayback Machine reveals her practice focuses “on international, corporate, and immigration law,” and that she “guides foreign and domestic businesses through immigration law and procedure including compliance with employment verification requirements and audits by federal and state agencies.”
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Nelson Mullins issued a statement last week saying it was “sympathetic to the inconvenience suffered by the passengers and crew of US Airways Flight 732.”
The firm has also suspended Buffett pending an investigation into the incident.
American Airlines – which owns and operates US Airways – issued a statement apologizing to passengers as well.
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I’d hit it!
Like it would let you without first hitting you back in your tiny nuts, calling the police, and filing a lawsuit.
Do the curtains match the drapes?
What about this?
http://www.thestate.com/news/politics-government/politics-columns-blogs/the-buzz/article28405045.html
I hate Curtis Loftis because he won’t quit watching the state retirement fund long enough for me and my cohorts to skim as much as we want to. Drat honest money handlers like him.
The Associated Press (AP) has historically claimed that Sam Griswold speaks for the government retirees. Sam Griswold represents no one but himself. At one time he was president of the SC Retirees Asso, which has 200 members…out of 200,000 government retirees! Clearly, he nor that association has a legitimate claim to speak for the retirees other than their very small group.
Sam Griswold surely does not represent the almost 150,000 current government employees. That honor goes the the SC State Employees Association, not Griswold.
Why does AP treat Sam Griswold like a god? Why do they hang on his every word? Why does Sam Griswold’s word count for more than a man elected by the people of SC…twice?
That story has been in each of the state’s major papers since at least July 23…but, not a peep here.
When you have an agenda, when you have people pay you for support and/or ads, facts and truth don’t mean much.
But, unlike some, I always understood that Will Folks is a lifelong political hack, not a journalist. So, I enjoy it when he damages his credibility with cover-ups for friends.
It’s just a shame that it took that complaint 4+ years to get to the Ethics Commission when it was all over the papers at the time it happened.
Same goes for Henry McMaster’s upcoming case.
One crazy old fool, Sam Griswold, has filed a complaint. Loftis has not been heard, only Griswold has spoken to the press. Griswold talks to the press and they report his every word like it was the gospel. He constantly posts online like an drugged insomniac, and is about as trustworthy as the Ayatollah.
Sam Griswold never said a word about Investment Commission member Reynolds Williams sticking $150,000 retirement dollars in his pocket. Never said a word that the Ethics Commission ruling that Reynolds Williams guilty of the appearance of a conflict of interest and was warned to NEVER do it again.
Sam Griswold never mentions that the Investment Commission is in the bottom 10% of profit makers for the last 10 years in a row. That alone is grounds for malfeasance charges against the staff and commissioners.
Sam Griswold is “owned” by the Investment Commission. He does as instructed by Reynolds Williams and he attacks Loftis because Loftis is the only elected official that is sounding the alarm about the billions of dollars thrown away by a Commission that is unaccountable to anyone except Senator Leatherman’s handpicked man, Reynolds Williams.
Sam Griswold, leftist , big government lackey, attacks conservative Loftis for sticking up for the working man. What is news about that?
What the hell does your post have to do with a potentially naked woman who is zoned out?
That is just the Investment Commission pushing anti-Loftis stories. They push them everywhere because he is pointing out their dreadful rates of returns, Effectively, the SC Investment Commission is in last place for the last 10 years in a row when it comes to making money off the retirement investments.
This piss poor performance is going to cost every taxpayer and government employee in SC a lot of money to fix the system. So, they keep the anti-Loftis story going so no one realize the organized theft by Wall Street of the people of SC.
California doesn’t put their retirement money in hedge funds anymore. Other public employee retirement funds are getting out of hedge funds.
Our Investment Commission remains gobsmacked by the carried interest guys and don’t recognize con men when they see them.
And our commission is getting robbed.
No, I am wrong, the taxpayer is getting robbed.
Was she a true redhead?
Someone who knows may jump in and give us a “tint”……
I get it.
If it’s our guy practicing cronyism that gives a great and good friend a $2 million fee for coming in at the tail end of a lawsuit that has essentially already been settled, that’s fine.
It’s just corruption when a guy on the other side does the same thing.
That is why we have corruption in government – overlooking it, justifying it when it’s our side doing it.
But, thanks to Mark Sanford letting those 600+ vacancies on boards and commissions be left vacant when he left office, Nikki has been able to pack the Ethics Commission with her flunkies and I’m sure something will be worked out for Curtis…maybe as good as the deal they gave the water guy in Swansea.
Your comment does not square with the facts.
The lawyer was added at the request of the chief legal counsel.
The attorney worked for two years, paying hundreds of thousands in expenses from their own pocket— doing so without any guarantee of a penny collected.
Liars and anonymous postings are a terribly bad combination.
What I think is crazy is that IF Loftis did what they say, the fine is $2000. A small amount for a small infraction. (Of course they have not even had the hearing yet it seems like the media has already convicted him)
The investment Commission is paying half a billion dollars in fees to be at the bottom of their peer group. My IRA does better than they do and I pay virtually no fees!
it is hilarious that anyone should be concerned about anything but the AWFUL PERFORMANCE of the Investment Commission. It is going to cost us, as a state, BILLIONS!
Loftis is the only state wide elected official that gives a damn about the taxpayers and the insiders hate him for it. there is nothing they want do to smear him.
If a man did this, you’d say it was “EMPOWERING.” (If he was a Democrat, of course.)
Why do you hate women” you Chauvinist asshole.
What pills do you take, hmm?
Zaleplon is used for: Short-term treatment of insomnia.
Zaleplon is a hypnotic agent. It works by depressing the central nervous system (brain), causing drowsiness to aid in falling asleep.
Do not drink alcohol or use medicines that may cause drowsiness
Some patients taking zaleplon have performed certain activities while they were not fully awake. These have included sleep-driving, making and eating food, making phone calls, and having sex.
Patients often do not remember these events after they happen. Such an event may be more likely to occur if you use a high dose of zaleplon. It may also be more likely if you drink alcohol or take other medicines that may cause drowsiness while you use zaleplon.
Didn’t the pharmacist tell her not to drink 3 glasses of wine?
Max, excellent post.
” Some patients taking zaleplon have performed certain activities while they were not fully awake. Patients often do not remember these events after they happen.”
Several times I’ve been awakened during the night by a girl straddling me and humping away. Then they would fall asleep, and in the morning would not remember. Now I know the reason why.
Perhaps it was not a particularly memorable experience
or did you mean to say a “moving” experience?
When that happened to me, I always assumed it was to insure plausible deniability.
10+
“These have included sleep-driving, making and eating food, making phone calls, and having sex.”
-Max
So that is why they duck taped her legs shut.
It it walks like duct tape, talks like a duct tape, quacks like duct tape, it is probably duct tape. Ducks are out of season.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duct_tape
Seems like I’m partial the the brand, Duck tape.
Good catch!
dog-gone it — wishing I said that!
Yeah but I didn’t see a mention of them taping her mouth shut my friend.
ooops, I missed that one!
Traveling in an aluminum tube with 200-300 people while traveling at 550 mph at 45,000 feet and sharing an inadequate space with two people on either side rubbing up against you somehow seems to not bring out the best in people. Some people are alreday tense about air travel and some are under certain pressures associated with professional endeavors, which sets them up for erratic behavior,especially if alcohol is available.
I think everyday air travel is a test of will power and patience.
“First Class” — plenty of space and no rubbing
True, but with some people, the stress of the whole experience is enough to put them on edge, even in First Class.
I lived in Atlanta for twenty years, working for a company based in the Silicon Valley. Over the span of twenty years, probably made at least fifty round-trips to San Francisco, some in first class, in the early years. The hassle of the airport, delays, boarding and take-on luggage hassles, time changes, some people don’t like flying, led to not making it the most pleasant experience. Sometimes, with the family and kids, leaving for a week or two, could cause problems.
One needs to be careful of their comments, the wrath of Taylor is only a key stroke away
Story would have been a little more entertaining if Buffett had ripped off all her clothes and romped around the aircraft butt nakkied
Of course if that had happened, the pilot would have never turned the plane around
Another in a long line of idiot, crazed, and f up lawyers. Shakespeare had it right. The world would be better off without them. And, for good measure, throw in politicians.
They are all self serving low life.
The list of people who fail to understand Shakespeare is even longer. Congrats on making that list.
Attempts to smash out the windows mid flight–fights the crew–released on her own recognizance. Oh well, she’s not black or middle eastern. Otherwise she’d be a “domestic terrorist.”
Also, who knew they carried that much Duck Tape on an airplane!
Duck Tape is my friend. I keep a roll in every room in my house. I’ve got most of the solid colors (green/blue/yellow) and also the plaid and the red, white, and blue design. Now I’ll keep a couple of rolls around my bed…..just in case!
I have seen duct tape used on aircraft wings! Not jets though. There is one called “200-mph duct tape” I’m told.
She is setting this up to use the Kennedy family Ambien defense.
Was the plane a Charleston built Dreamliner? If so, that would explain her actions, right Will?
They took her phone and deleted her pictures too, the scoundrels!
Cactus 732 is almost always a Airbus 330-300 as it was on 7/23/2015. The commie plane caused her to act out, that had to be it.
She is concerned in the least. Just a resume builder for that Southern Poverty Law Center job she has always dreamed of, a few more drugs and a knock or two to the skull and she will be in the right frame of mind.
Chasing insomnia pills with alcohol, what could go wrong?
Just ask Hank Williams.
She probably had a “pebble in her shoe”….
And rocks for brains.
Maybe she was having “a diabetic episode” That’s it! She needs to call Lonnie Randolph ASAP! Hr can tell her how to make that work.
Redheads…..
You can believe that medication and “three” glasses of wine business all you want, but the truth is that she went ape shit when she heard they were not offering an in-flight snack. Her last name ain’t pronounced “bu-fay” for nothing!
A Nelson Mullins lawyer? Especially a woman. I will take care of her just as Nelson Mullins has taken care of me the past 20 years. No problems here.
too bad its way out of her judicial reach.
Looks like Buffett has made one too many trip to the buffet line.
A professional traitor, bringing in foreign labor to steal US Jobs.
Lock her up and throw away the key.
When people consider the connections between drugs and violence, what typically comes to mind are illegal drugs like crack cocaine. However, certain medications — most notably, some antidepressants like Prozac — have also been linked to increase risk for violent, even homicidal behavior.
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Seen violent homicidal episodes with Xanax, etc, but this could be a first for Zaleplon. Redheads do seem to be more sensitive to medications.
I’d hit. She’s crazy it’s probably be a fun ride.
looks like she may have an 8-cylinder body operating on a 2-cylinder brain …..
Looks like there is plenty of cushin for the pushin.
Hmmm, I see she likes to do a lot of “pro bono” work….
So she is a professional at advising corporations on how not to follow federal law with regards to immigrants and those pesky taxes they don’t pay. Oi vey!
Buffett told investigators she had taken a Zaleplon for her insomnia in addition to consuming “at least three glasses of wine.”
Stupid bitch. Mixing drugs with alcohol. She’ll get a pass.
A similar excuse worked for the head of the NAACP when he freaked out at the dry cleaners here in Columbia.