Fetterman video indicates argument with the aircraft pilot about the seat belt

A video that was shot at the beginning of this year shows Senator John Fetterman in a tense exchange with a flight crew member via his seat belt on a flight to Pittsburgh – after a report by the New York magazine expressed new concerns about his health.

The video of the Senator exchange with a flight crew member appeared shortly after the magazine article published on Friday, in which current and former employees expressed concerns about his health. The report showed that Adam Jentleson, the former chief of staff of Fetterman, told a medical director of Walter Reed last May that he feared that the senator was “on a bad way” and may not be “with us for long”.

The incident with a plane in February was quoted in the article as a sign that Fetterman's behavior “went public”, whereby the employees reported that such moments found “increasingly difficult to explain”. The video that was recorded during a flight to Pittsburgh shows Fetterman in a dispute with a crew member – identified by the magazine as a pilot – that asked if he was wearing his seat belt. Fetterman is replied: “Yes, it is” and later: “I have my seat belt on.” Parts of the video are inaudible, especially the answers from Fetterman.

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The pilot can be heard in the clip: “It must be visible to the crew at any time – that is a federal regulation.” Fetterman defiantly answers, raises his hands and asks the pilot to answer: “If you want to go to Pittsburgh, it's easy.”

Then he adds: “You have to follow our instructions or begun to get out of the plane”, while you offer Fetterman a seat belt, so that it does not have to go under his sweatshirt.

It is unclear how important was solved with the democratic senator of Pennsylvania.