Angry Passenger Talks About Why Flight Crew Called Cops on Arianna Huffington

(By Jonathon M. Seidl, The Blaze) - When news broke that a flight crew called the cops on Huffington Post founder Arianna Huffington over her refusal to turn off her BlackBerry while in flight, the story included a buried reference to the fellow passenger who was angry enough to confront her about it. Now, that passenger is speaking up and explaining why he was so upset: he was afraid for his safety.

The story began last weekend when, aboard a United Airlines flight from Washington, D.C. to New York, a passenger became upset after he noticed someone a few rows away using her cell phone after the plane was instructed to turn them off. But the woman, later identified as Huffington, wasn’t just sending a few text messages. According to reports, she was talking on her phone even after the plane took off.

“She wouldn’t turn off her BlackBerry, even when we pushed back from the gate,” one passenger told the website Valleywag.