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(Scroll down for video) A first class passenger did not act as a first class woman, according to a statement released by the Federal Bureau of Investigations.
The FBI said that a passenger on a plane to Shanghai, China from New York, caused such an uproar on Sunday, by shouting, and cursing at flight attendants, that the pilot of the Boeing 777 made an emergency stop in Anchorage, Alaska, where she was arrested, according to court documents.
Stephanie Heizmann Auerbach, owner of a Shanghai-based clothing and fashion company, Stephanie & Co., remained jailed Tuesday at Hiland Mountain Correctional Center on federal charges of disrupting a flight. Two children traveling with Auerbach, 47, continued on to Shanghai, where their father was waiting for them.
A spokesperson for Delta Airlines, which operated the ill-fated flight 181, said the flight originated in New York and headed to Shanghai via Detroit, Michigan. According to the indictment, the misbehavior of Auerbach started an hour and a half into the 7100 mile journey from Detroit to Shanghai.
An FBI agent, who interviewed passengers and flight attendants, said: "MB", a flight attendant, said that Auerbach was served five glasses of white wine, and three passengers later said that Auerbach had been consuming alcoholic beverages in the kitchen without the knowledge of the flight crew.
It became a problem when Auerbach began walking up and down the aisle, shouting obscenities and climbing on seats. She refused to sit down.
"After landing at Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport, Auerbach remained uncooperative," the FBI said.
Airport police had to board the plane to remove Auerbach, who was "physically combative.” She was arrested, and she was eventually charged and jailed.
