An overzealous flight attendant picked a fight with embattled NY1 political anchor Dominic Carter yesterday morning at La Guardia Airport, but the newsman hopped off the Delta flight to avoid the confrontation, cops said.
The brouhaha erupted during boarding of Flight 6707 to Kansas City when Carter bent over to tie his shoelaces and bumped into the man as he stood up.
The steward took exception to the inadvertent contact and called cops and a ground operator supervisor, officials said.
“That other guy lost it, ‘Oh, no! You bumped into me! You will be removed from this flight!’ ” his aunt, Inez Carter, 63, told The Post.
When the officers arrived, Carter, who was headed to Kansas City with his wife, Marilyn, “just to chill, to relax and get away from it all,” according to his aunt — overheard a supervisor saying it’d take an hour to replace the agitated flight attendant.
Instead, he volunteered to leave the flight.
“Dominic, rather than hold up the flight, decided to remove himself,” said the aunt. “[He] just doesn’t need this right now.”
Carter and his wife took the next flight out and were upgraded to first class, the aunt said.
The 45-year-old political journalist is facing domestic-violence charges for an alleged altercation with his wife in Rockland County.
Several law-enforcement sources said the flight attendant, who recognized Carter, over-reacted and credited the anchor for ending the dust-up by volunteering to walk away.