The Florida couple who used the emergency slide to escape a Delta flight to LaGuardia airport with their Great Dane puppy in tow received the dog Wednesday morning from a shelter in LaGuardia. Brooklyn animals.
Antonio Murdock, 31, 23, a 23-year-old friend of Brianna Greco, left the New York Animal Care Centers in eastern New York with rain around 11 a.m.
Murdock held Rain with a leash as the puppy jumped on its owners excitedly.
“Hey mom,” Greco said to his bitch.
“We’re fine, we’re fine,” Murdock told the Post as the couple walked away. “We don’t want to talk right now.”
“Of course we’ll look for her, she’s our dog,” Greco said. “People have been very rude. We are in a very emotional state. We want to be alone ”.
The New York Animal Care Centers did not immediately respond to a request for comment on why the animal, which may have been injured during the couple’s risky escape, was released to its owners.
A spokesman for the Department of Mental Health and Hygiene – which oversees the ACC – also made no immediate comment on Wednesday.
The couple opened an emergency door on the Delta plane at LaGuardia airport around 11 a.m. Monday and took Rain with them as they descended the inflatable slide on the tarmac.
The flight to Atlanta was preparing for takeoff at the time of his escape.
Murdock was charged with criminal offense, reckless danger and misdemeanors, Port Authority police reported Tuesday. He was released without bail and issued a protection order to prevent him from contacting the flight attendant.
Tuesday outside the criminal court, Murdock said he was suffering from anxiety and depression and had a panic attack at the time of the incident.
“I asked them three or four times to let me go,” he said. “They said they would stop the plane and never stop it, and I got to the point where I felt dizzy.”
Greco, was charged with a felony and was released on an appearance bulletin on his desk.