Police: Horizon Air flight attendant stole passenger's iPad
OREGON CITY, Ore. (AP) - Police say a Nevada man who lost his iPad on an airplane used an app called Find My iPad to locate it inside the Oregon home of a flight attendant.
Officers in Oregon City, outside Portland, arrested 43-year-old Wendy Ronelle Dye Friday evening.
The flight attendant for Horizon Air allegedly told officers that a passenger brought her the tablet saying it was found on a seat. She said she never used the iPad and planned to turn it over to airline officials, but police found some of her personal information on it including her husband's birthday.
Arrangements are being made to return the tablet to its owner in Reno. Dye did not immediately respond to a phone message.
A spokeswoman for Alaska Airlines, which owns Horizon, says Dye was suspended.
Officers in Oregon City, outside Portland, arrested 43-year-old Wendy Ronelle Dye Friday evening.
The flight attendant for Horizon Air allegedly told officers that a passenger brought her the tablet saying it was found on a seat. She said she never used the iPad and planned to turn it over to airline officials, but police found some of her personal information on it including her husband's birthday.
Arrangements are being made to return the tablet to its owner in Reno. Dye did not immediately respond to a phone message.
A spokeswoman for Alaska Airlines, which owns Horizon, says Dye was suspended.
It must of followed me home..
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The loss of income she will face if fired will be far greater than the cost of buying her own iPad. What a dummy.
Gotta love technology!
Suspended? How about fired?
 @Zoso Union rules, you can't actually punish someone for wrong doing.Â
@Citizen#3457899654: I'm surprised at your lack of knowledge of basic civics. (Laws, not the Honda kind.) It's a thing called due process and union contracts simply and clearly state what that process is. You nor I know what all the details are but on the face of it this sounds like grounds for termination. We'll see.
 @usnrbb Ah c'mon, I like Honda Civics....
 @Zoso She will be as soon as she is found guilty.
This is part of the reason I always laugh whenever anyone says anything positive about the Alaska Air Group. It's an organization that seems to believe that there is somehow a way to run an airline without actually paying employees. I've never seen a company with employees with lower morale than Alaska. AAG's efforts that appear to try to depress employee salaries as much as possible and hire cheap but seemingly incompetent contractors to do work that benefited employees should be doing are legend, and their shameless cost cutting that evidence suggests actually endangers passenger safety (Flight 262) are well documented.
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the attendants seem happy enough to keep refilling my mug of baileys when i fly.
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if they aren't happy, they're free to apply somewhere else. its only a matter of time before most of them are replaced with vending machines anyway.Â
@saev @wysoumible I have an F/A in-law. Makes good money, sets her own schedule, parties in PV & Vegas - etc. I'm sure she'd love to move on sometimes but it's probably the customers and fellow coworkers as much as mgmt that makes her feel that way.
 @AuburnGuy  @saev  @wysoumible Trust me, working for an airline it's the customers that are the biggest problem. lol The flight benefits alone are worth the job, more so than the actual salary. When I worked for Alaska I traveled every week. The pay sucked but it wasn't that prohibitive. I was still able to enjoy myself wherever I flew.