'RECLINE IN YOUR AIRPLANE SEAT? A DEBATE RAGES IN THE SKIES AND ONLINE'

Should you recline in your airplane seat? It all started after a woman posted a video on Twitter of her in a reclined airplane seat. A man seated behind her rhythmically pushes the back of her seat at least a dozen times, the 45-second clip shows. The video shows the man’s tray table was down, with his phone resting on it. “He was angry that I reclined(비 스듬히 기대다) my seat and punched it about 9 times — HARD, at which point I began videoing him, and he resigned(단념하다, 그만하다) to this behavior,” the

woman, Wendi Williams, wrote on Twitter. Ms. Williams said the pushing continued throughout the roughly 80-minute American Airlines flight from New Orleans to Charlotte, N.C., on Jan. 31. The man in the video has not been publicly identified.

She said a flight attendant scolded(야단치다, 꾸짖다) her, told her to delete the video and

gave her a passenger disturbance notice. “He was basically given permission to continue, and there was nothing I could do about it,” Ms. Williams said on Friday. In a statement, American Airlines said it was “aware of a customer dispute(분쟁, 논란)” that happened on the flight. In one of her tweets, Ms. Williams wrote that she was upset with a flight attendant who, she said, reprimanded(질책하다) her and offered the man behind her a complimentary(무료의) cocktail. Ms. Williams said on Friday that she did not intend to set off a furious debate with her video. “My issue is more, I got assaulted(공격당하다) on a plane and the person behind me got rewarded with a free drink,” she said.

Online, reactions to the video were divided: You’re either a recliner or you’re not.