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Two sisters flying to Dallas to visit their father, who had recently suffered a heart attack, were kicked off a plane Wednesday after one began crying and asked a flight attendant for a glass of wine, ABC News reports. Ricci Wheatley and her sister, Robin Opperman, were scheduled to depart Oakland, Calif., on Southwest flight 1259."I broke down and started to cry," Wheatley told ABC News, "and I'm a little bit afraid to fly, so I said to the stewardess as she was passing, 'When you're going to be serving, I'll have a glass of wine,' and she said, 'I think you've had enough.' Of course I hadn't had any on the airplane."Opperman told the TV station that her sister was "softly crying," but Southwest Airlines spokesperson Chris Mainz described the incident as a “verbal altercation with the flight attendant.”"It’s very rare for something like that to occur," Mainz told msnbc.com. [Read the full article] The likely cause for this isthat your browser, feed reader, or email application is configured to not accept cookies, or yourreader may launch an external browser to view links without sharing cookies.The likely cause for this isthat your browser, feed reader, or email application is configured to not accept cookies, or yourreader may launch an external browser to view links without sharing cookies. [Read the full article] "We had a taxiway incident tonight at O'Hare," Delta spokeswoman Chris Kelly Singley said, adding that two planes had "made contact" on the ground.She said that all passengers disembarked after the incident involving a flight bound for Minneapolis and another heading to Atlanta. An investigation was underway into the cause of the collision and to assess the damage, she said.A spokeswoman for the Chicago Department of Aviation, Karen Pride, said the planes had "reportedly clipped wings", but the Delta spokeswoman could not confirm what parts of the plane came into contact."We had a taxiway incident tonight at O'Hare," Delta spokeswoman Chris Kelly Singley said, adding that two planes had "made contact" on the ground.She said that all passengers disembarked after the incident involving a flight bound for Minneapolis and another heading to Atlanta. An investigation was underway into the cause of the collision and to assess the damage, she said. [Read the full article] 
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