Reply #83: New article quotes eyewitness - said liquid was on traytable

[Shallah Kali]

http://www.houstonchronicle.com/disp/story.mpl/front/3538956.html

"She was just abusive," said Sheila Steele, who said she was sitting behind Victoria Osteen. "She was just like one of those divas."

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Steele said Victoria Osteen was upset about liquid on her pull-down tray and asked a flight attendant to have it cleaned. When the attendant, who was carrying paperwork to the cockpit, told her she couldn't do it immediately, Osteen replied, "Fine, get me a stewardess who can," Steele said.

She said Victoria Osteen pushed a flight attendant and tried to get into the cockpit. During the incident, Joel Osteen — who preaches to an estimated 30,000 each weekend — stayed with the couple's two children and did not get involved, Steele said.

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Steele said she and other passengers were upset that they had to wait about two hours while the Osteens' baggage was removed from the plane.