Flight attendant who exited through emergency slide bailed

The 39-year-old veteran flight attendant Steve Slater was arrested on charges of criminal mischief, reckless endangerment and trespassing. (AP)

Published Wednesday, August 11, 2010

By AP

A JetBlue flight attendant who argued with a passenger on a plane before making a grand exit down its emergency slide has been released on bail in New York.

A spokesman for the city’s jails confirms Steven Slater was released on Tuesday night. Slater was picked up by a minivan and driven away.

Department of Correction spokesman Stephen Morello doesn’t have details on who posted the $2,500 bail.

Slater has been charged with felonies but elevated to folk hero status by thousands of people who shrug off allegations he endangered others and praise him for his take-this-job-and-shove-it moment.

A defence attorney says Slater didn’t put anyone in danger on the Pittsburgh-to-New York flight.

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