The Chronicle‘s Dale Lezon reports some of the entertaining details of the lawsuit against Lakewood Church’s Victoria Osteen, relating to her temper tantrum on a Continental jet in 2005:
The Osteens were on board Continental Airlines Flight 1602 at Houston’s Bush Intercontinental Airport, bound for Vail, Colo., on Dec. 19, 2005.
Victoria Osteen found a liquid on the arm rest of her seat and asked fight attendants to clean it up, according to Brown’s lawsuit. The flight attendants did not immediately take action, however, and after they said a cleaning crew would be called, Osteen shoved, grabbed and pulled them, the lawsuit alleges.
The suit states that Osteen elbowed Brown, the flight manager, in the left breast while trying to get into the cockpit. After Osteen was asked to leave the plane, she and her family complied.
The Federal Aviation Administration fined Osteen $3,000 for interfering with a flight crew member. She paid the fine, but payment is not an admission of guilt.
Brown’s lawsuit claims that she suffered pain and bruising. It seeks unspecified damages for the medical care, emotional pain and mental anguish she claims to have suffered and may suffer because of the incident.
The lawsuit seems overblown, but then again, it doesn’t seem very Christian to elbow a flight attendant in the breast, so maybe there’s some sort of karma at work in the whole thing.
