Stewardess barred call to my suicidal husband, says wife
Karen Momsen-Evers says Southwest Airlines stewardesses prevented her from calling her partner after he sent her a text saying he would take his own life, which he subsequently did
A woman says a Southwest Airlines flight attendant barred her from calling her husband after he sent her a suicidal text, and she’s wondering if more could have been done to save his life.
Karen Momsen-Evers said she got a text from her husband moments before her April 3 flight left New Orleans. The text had asked for her forgiveness, and said he was going to take his life.
“I started shaking the minute I got the text and I was panicked, I didn’t know what to do,” she told TV station WTMJ-TV this week. She sent a text back to her husband, and told him “no,” and was about to call him when a flight attendant stopped her, citing Federal Aviation Administration regulations.
“The steward slapped the phone down and said, ‘You need to go on airplane mode now,”‘ Momsen-Evers told the station.
Another flight attendant denied her request to make a call once the flight was cruising, she said.