Was the JetBlue Incident Caused by a Head Injury?
Was the JetBlue Incident Caused by a Head Injury?
Many explanations have been offered for JetBlue Flight Attendant Steven Slater’s meltdown and dramatic emergency slide exit — from “air rage” to suggestions of a relapse into alcoholism
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Was the JetBlue slide incident caused by head injury?
All of these behaviors– impulsivity, clumsiness, confusion, disorientation, irritability, “out of character” behavior– can be head injury symptoms. When the brain gets hit, the outer regions that prevent people from doing things like telling off customers, quitting work and activating the emergency slide to make a dramatic exit are often the first to be affected.
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