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Sour ‘high’ note

A tone-deaf Brooklyn crooner who wouldn’t stop belting out Whitney Houston’s classic “I Will Always Love You” on an American Airlines flight forced the pilot to make an emergency landing — so air marshals could remove her from the plane in handcuffs.

Margaret Gay’s wretched concert on last week’s Los Angeles-to-JFK flight led to an hourlong layover in Kansas City, where officials removed her and wouldn’t allow her back on the plane, the local airport police said.

One passenger recorded the action on a cellphone and posted it to YouTube — showing the Whitney wannabe still singing even with her hands cuffed behind her back.

She was shrieking for more than an hour — and could be heard over people who were wearing headphones, the passenger who shot the video told KMBC-TV.

“She was taken off the airplane and interviewed,” Kansas City International Airport spokesman Joe McBride said about the 6 p.m. incident.

“The airline would not allow her to reboard. After she calmed down she was released and took a cab away from the airport.”

McBride said the passenger was being disruptive and was removed from the plane for interfering with the flight crew. She was noncompliant with a federal air marshal on board and was restrained, he said.

Gay was released without being charged — and blamed her loopy behavior on her diabetes. She did not return messages for comment yesterday.

On the online video, the flight crew seems to be more concerned with passengers taking pictures, announcing several times that they could not snap photos while aboard the aircraft.

An American Airlines spokesman declined to comment.

The airplane performer’s choice of in-flight entertainment is one of the most popular songs in pop-music history.

It was written and originally recorded by Dolly Parton, but reached international fame when Houston covered it and featured the song on the soundtrack of “The Bodyguard,” a film she made with Kevin Costner.