{"id":771495,"date":"2026-05-04T00:46:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T00:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/771495\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T00:46:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T00:46:15","slug":"entitled-delta-passenger-causes-plane-to-return-to-gate-after-refusing-to-hang-up-phone-before-takeoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/771495\/","title":{"rendered":"Entitled Delta passenger causes plane to return to gate after refusing to hang up phone before takeoff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An entitled traveler forced a Delta plane to return to the gate because she refused to hang up her phone before takeoff \u2014 prompting outraged passengers to chant \u201cget off the plane.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Shannon Marie Harris, 46, was asked by flight attendants to end her phone call after boarding a Delta Air Lines flight from Miami International Airport to Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport on Monday, April 27.<\/p>\n<p>But she refused and became \u201cbelligerent\u201d just before takeoff, leading the pilots to turn the plane back around to the gate, where everyone on board was asked to deboard after she wouldn\u2019t leave as asked, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsbtv.com\/news\/local\/delta-flight-forced-return-gate-because-woman-who-wouldnt-get-off-phone-police-say\/QA3XRMLECJCU3OBT4B7OLHIFRY\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">according to WSB-TV<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:0.9140625;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"39271629\" width=\"539\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/shannon-marie-harris-belligerent-delta-126919955.jpg\" alt=\"Shannon Marie Harris,\" class=\"wp-image-39271629\"  \/>Shannon Marie Harris, 46, was charged with trespassing. Miami-Dade County Sheriff&#8217;s Office<\/p>\n<p>Harris and another passenger, who was not identified, were taken into custody.<\/p>\n<p>A traveler on board captured the moment dozens of travelers groaned in unison after the pilot\u2019s announcement that they would all have to deboard.<\/p>\n<p>As frustration boiled over, passengers began chanting \u201cget off the plane\u201d at Harris, footage shows.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo we\u2019re all supposed to listen and [she] doesn\u2019t?\u201d one flyer asked aloud.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPlease be considerate,\u201d another chided.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.50146628;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"39271628\" width=\"886\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/delta-air-lines-flight-miami-126920232.jpg\" alt=\"Passengers began chanting &quot;get off the plane.&quot;\" class=\"wp-image-39271628\"  \/>Passengers began chanting \u201cget off the plane,\u201d video shows. Instagram\/@atlscoop<\/p>\n<p>Flight attendants repeatedly had to tell passengers to \u201cremain calm,\u201d according to the clip.<\/p>\n<p>Harris was charged with trespassing and later released on a $500 bond.<\/p>\n<p>Delta flight 1323 took off about an hour late due to the chaos. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An entitled traveler forced a Delta plane to return to the gate because she refused to hang up&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":771496,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5122],"tags":[152314,5229,48600,380,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,67,586,132,5230,20482,68,1154,2969],"class_list":["post-771495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-airplane-meltdowns","tag-america","tag-delta-airlines","tag-miami","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkcity","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-unruly-passengers","tag-us","tag-us-news","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116513550302453540","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=771495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/771496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=771495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=771495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=771495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}