Alec Baldwin apparently broke one of the cardinal rules of preparing for airplane takeoff by not turning off all of his electronic devices.
In a stream of tweets Baldwin explained how he was kicked off an American Airlines flight on Tuesday. Baldwin tweeted, "Flight attendant on American reamed me out 4 playing WORDS W FRIENDS while we at the gate, not moving." But Baldwin didn't stop there.
An hour later Baldwin tweeted that he was on a three o'clock American flight, but Baldwin continued to slam the airline and praise its competition, United Airlines. "#theresalwaysunited Last flight w American. Where retired Catholic school gym teachers from 1950's find jobs as flight attendants," Baldwin tweeted.
Meanwhile, the company Zynga, which owns the "Words With Friends" app, had a little fun with the situation, releasing an official statement via Twitpic.
As for Baldwin, "He loves WWF so much that he was willing to leave a plane for it," a rep told HLN in a statement. Do we sense Baldwin could be the new face of the popular world-building game?
A fellow celebrity who was on the same American Airline flight as Baldwin is saying the sometimes hot headed Baldwin kept his cool. Oscar de la Hoya tweeted, "Alec Baldwin was doing nothing wrong but playing 'words' on his phone."
Now that we heard Baldwin's side of the story American Airlines wants to set the record straight. "Since an extremely vocal customer has publicly identified himself as being removed from an American Airlines flight on Tuesday, Dec. 6, we have elected to provide the actual facts," the airline said in a statement posted on their Facebook page.
Here's how American Airlines is describing the scene Baldwin caused when he was asked to turn off his cell phone: "The passenger ultimately stood up (with the seat belt light still on for departure) and took his phone into the plane’s lavatory. He slammed the lavatory door so hard, the cockpit crew heard it and became alarmed, even with the cockpit door closed and locked," explained the airline. "The passenger was extremely rude to the crew, calling them inappropriate names and using offensive language."
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