Flight Diverted Over Middle Seat Rage By Ed Mazza

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INTRODUCTION Passenger who was allegedly unhappy about his middle seat. Author Ed Mazza, wrote Flight Diverted Over ‘Middle-Seat Rage’ After Angry Passenger’s Alleged Rant, Published in 2017 in the Huffington Post. The article The New Zealand Herald reported that the passenger, who was not identified, became angry when two travelers of either Indian or Pakistani descent seated on either side of him began speaking to each other. Ed Mazza begins building his credibility with facts reputable sources, citing convincing facts and statistics that he saw from social media. Letting the readers know towards the end of the article the passenger had to pay consequence from being an angry passenger. POINT1 In this article Mazza first talks about the, Video posted on social media showed him arguing with a flight attendant on United Airlines Flight 870, which was scheduled to travel from Sydney to San Francisco. “If you guys treat people right on these things, you see two last names the same, don’t put someone else in the middle of them,” the passenger said in a clip …show more content…
“You want to hear me fucking yell?” throughout the article Mazza uses strong sources that strengths his credibility and appeal to ethos, as well as build his point about the article. It was not clear what the flight attendant said in reply, but it appears she told him that the aircraft could be diverted to have him removed. “Do you know how cool it would be to have the airplane turned around because of me? You are going to do that?” he said as she walked away. “You do that! I’m being so impolite aren’t I, fat ass.” So, on this part of the article with Mezza telling the reader about what the passenger said about the flight attendant had strong points, and also had facts with video he had for us viewers to see how rude the passenger was to the flight

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