{"id":593630,"date":"2026-09-08T06:32:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T06:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/593630\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T06:32:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T06:32:09","slug":"passenger-duct-taped-to-seat-on-us-flight-sacked-as-real-estate-agent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/593630\/","title":{"rendered":"Passenger duct-taped to seat on US flight sacked as real estate agent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  [&amp;_p]:tit-sub-xl tit-sub-xl md:[&amp;_p]:d-tit-sub-xl md:d-tit-sub-xl mb-[1.3rem]\">A man who had to be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1news.co.nz\/2026\/09\/06\/disruptive-first-class-passenger-duct-taped-to-seat-on-us-flight\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">duct-taped to his seat after hurling racist and homophobic slurs at passengers and crew during a US flight<\/a> has been identified as an Arizona real estate agent and fired from his job.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Layne Arthur Lundeen, 67, had to be duct-taped by fellow passengers on a flight from Dallas to Newark on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">He allegedly used racist and homophobic profanity, hit the woman beside him and attempted to bite other passengers who tried to intervene. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">He was removed from the aircraft in Baltimore, with the rest of the passengers resuming their flight to Newark.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Lundeen&#8217;s employer Long Realty in Tucson, Arizona, confirmed he had been fired in a statement posted to social media.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">&#8220;Long Realty is aware of reports concerning criminal charges filed against a former affiliated real estate agent arising from an incident that allegedly occurred during a commercial flight,&#8221; the post read. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">&#8220;Upon learning of the incident, Long Realty promptly ended its affiliation with the individual. The individual is no longer associated with or authorised to represent Long Realty in any capacity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">&#8220;The conduct described in the reports is wholly inconsistent with the professionalism, integrity, compassion, and respect for others that Long Realty expects from those affiliated with the company.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man who had to be duct-taped to his seat after hurling racist and homophobic slurs at passengers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":593631,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[138,67,111,139,64,69],"class_list":["post-593630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-crime-and-justice","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-north-america","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=593630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593630\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/593631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}