A financial consultant was kicked off a Florida-bound flight after an airline worker accused her of not wearing knickers.
Malinda Knowles, 27, claims that a JetBlue supervisor put a walkie-talkie between her legs to see what she had on under her baggy T-shirt.
Ms Knowles, from Harlem, claims in a Queens Supreme Court lawsuit that she was ‘humiliated’ as the worker demanded he see if she was wearing underwear, before escorting her off the Florida-bound flight.
‘He said, “I don’t want to see your panties or anything but do you have any on?'” Ms Knowles told NY Daily News.
‘I didn’t want to show him anything. He wanted me to basically show him my crotch. I was completely humiliated. It was vulgar. It was macho. It was rude.’
The mortified former fashion model said other passengers on the flight to West Palm Beach watched in horror as she was confronted.
Ms Knowles said she was wearing a baggy blue T-shirt over a pair of short dark denim shorts she had put on for the flight on July 13, last year when she was forced off the plane at LaGuardia Airport.
She was taken to a hangar, where she lifted up her T-shirt to prove she met the dress code.
The supervisor seemed surprise at her shorts and she was allowed to return to the flight, but was then told the pilot refused to fly with her onboard, Ms Knowles claimed to the NYDaily Times.
