A chemical engineer has lost his job after being recorded on camera chanting homophobic epithets on a flight and then repeatedly shouting the N-word after being ejected from the aircraft.
Zachary Easterly was fired by his job, the pharmaceutical and biotech firm GlaxoSmithKline, after cellphone videos of the worker’s spectacular, intoxicated meltdown at the Philadelphia International Airport surfaced, according to TMZ.
In the first video that TMZ was able to get, Easterly can be seen screaming obscenities as she is being escorted off the plane while wearing a black T-shirt.
Easterly, a white man, quips sarcastically that he “selected a black bag because I’m racist,” referring to himself.”You’re sending me off the plane because I’m racist,” he continues.
Easterly turns back as he prepares to leave and announces that he is a chemical engineer who works at GlaxoSmithKline.
Last Tuesday, the event happened on a trip from Philadelphia to Dallas. By Thursday, GlaxoSmithKline had revealed that Easterly had been fired.
The international pharmaceutical corporation with headquarters in London issued a statement denouncing the engineer’s comments as “reprehensible” and not representative of the company’s culture.
Easterly claims he didn’t do anything, although he does confess to being “a bit drunk.”
Easterly remarks that his carry-on is “a better bag than most of y’all can afford” as flight attendants look for the rambunctious passenger’s luggage in the overhead bins.
Easterly moves in the direction of the door after getting his backpack back. He shouts that everyone on the plane is a “liberal f—-t” as he leaves, adding that he hopes they “wreck the f—ing plane.”