Malinda Knowles Sues JetBlue After Being Kicked Off Florida-Bound Flight Because Airline Worker Accused Her of not Wearing Panties

Malinda Knowles, a 27-year-old Harlem financial consultant is suing JetBlue after she was allegedly kicked off a Florida-bound flight from NYC last year because she was not wearing panties. At least that's the reason she claimed the airline worker got her kicked off the flight. Here's the rundown from the NY Daily News:

Malinda Knowles, 27, claims in a Queens Supreme Court lawsuit that a JetBlue supervisor put a walkie-talkie between her legs to see what she had on under her baggy T-shirt.

"He said, 'I don't want to see your panties or anything but do you have any on?'" Knowles recalled yesterday.

"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."

She said fellow passengers on the July 13, 2010, flight to West Palm Beach watched in horror as she was confronted.

The former fashion model said she was wearing a baggy blue T-shirt over a pair of dark denim short-shorts she had tossed on after waking up at 4 a.m. Knowles said she was escorted 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. "'Oh, she's wearing shorts,'" the JetBlue fashion police responded, according to Knowles. "It was really crazy," she said. "I've never had a corporate employee ask me about my underwear."

There are no words for me to adequately state how the airline overreacted. I hope she sues the pants of JetBlue.

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