A passenger said she's hurt after her reclined seat was repeatedly 'punched.' She asked for help, but said a flight attendant threatened her

A woman who's become an icon in the debate over whether it's OK to recline your airplane seat said she was 'scared to death' by how a flight attendant handled her painful ordeal.

A woman who's become an icon in the debate over whether it's OK to recline your airplane seat said she was"scared to death" by how a flight attendant handled her painful ordeal.

Wendi Williams, who said she's a teacher in Virginia Beach, tweeted footage of a man repeatedly hitting the back of her reclined seat with his fist during an American Airlines flight in January. But what viewers saw in the video wasn't even the worst of it, Williams told CNN's"New Day."A passenger filmed a man repeatedly pushing her reclined seat with his fist.

— wendi February 8, 2020 She also tweeted that she was injured, and that the incident caused pain. "I have 1 cervical disk left that isn't fused," she wrote. "I've lost time at work, had to visit a doctor, got X-rays, and have has [sic] horrible headaches for a week."After she started filming the man,"he did stop punching as hard," she told CNN."So it did work to a certain degree.

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