Hothead Alec Baldwin was kicked off an American Airlines flight in LA yesterday after flipping out and throwing a tantrum when he refused to turn off his iPhone — because he was in the middle of an online game.
“He was beating the walls of the lavatory to the point that the captain called us to see what that was about. They heard it in the cockpit,” said one crew member on the JFK-bound flight who had to deal with the “30 Rock” actor.
“He was asked five times. Everybody is the same. Everyone has to follow the rules, it doesn’t matter who you are,” the employee told The Post. “He was violent, abusive and aggressive.”
Baldwin said that he was playing the Scrabble-like game “Words With Friends” when an overzealous flight attendant started harassing him.
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“Flight attendant on American [Airlines] reamed me out 4 playing WORDS W FRIENDS while we sat at the gate, not moving,” Baldwin tweeted.
He then took a verbal swipe at the woman, tweeting: “Last flight w American. Where retired Catholic school gym teachers from the 1950’s find jobs as flight attendants.”
But a passenger on the flight, Steve Weiss, who sat across the aisle from Baldwin, said there was nothing funny about what was going on.
Weiss said after the plane landed at JFK, adding that Baldwin, 53, was “actually talking on his phone” — not playing a game.
“The door was closed — they had just announced they were pulling away from the gate.
“He got up, threw his papers on the floor and stormed into the bathroom, slammed the door closed, beat on the wall and then came back,” Weiss said.
“He said, ‘If you want to kick me off, kick me off.’ He was just crazy. He just flipped out.”
But Baldwin’s version was backed up by former boxing champ Oscar de la Hoya, who was also on the flight.
“I didn’t think there was a problem,” de la Hoya said.
“I actually felt Alec Baldwin was turning off his devices . . . and he just got a little angry, that’s about it.”
After Baldwin was removed from Flight 4, he caught at later AA flight home to New York, which took off without incident.
He landed at around 11 p.m. and didn’t comment to reporters.
Baldwin was in Southern California to appear on “Conan” Monday night.
Michael J. Wolf, founder of the Web site Activate.com, first reported the brouhaha on Twitter.
“On an AA flight at LAX,’’ Wolf tweeted. “Alec Baldwin removed from the plane. We had to go back to the gate. Terrible that everyone had to wait.”
It wasn’t the first time Baldwin lost his cool with working stiffs who don’t treat him like royalty.
In September, Baldwin tweeted nasty things about an employee at an Upper West Side Starbucks.
He wrote that an “uptight Queen barrista named JAY has an attitude problem.”
Another employee at the java joint countered that Baldwin was being “very rude and disrespectful and arrogant. He’s probably the rudest guy I’ve ever met.”
Additional reporting by Christine Parker