‘This is not her first warning’: Britney Spears deliberately violates strict law on flight, alarms passengers and flight attendants

Britney Spears got herself in trouble with the Federal Aviation Administration when the multi-platinum singer was met with authorities after landing on her chartered plane.

People reports that Spears chartered her plane from Cabo San Lucas back to LAX. Spears was reportedly back from a vacation and sparked a cigarette during the flight. The flight crew apparently asked her to put out the cigarette, and while Spears reportedly followed their orders, the crew had already alerted the authorities. And immediately the plane landed at LAX, Spears was welcomed home with a slew of authorities.

Since 2000, the FAA has banned smoking in flights. Some private jets, however, do come equipped with smoking zones, but it seems this was not that kind of plane. Britney Spears is by far not the first celebrity who has been caught not following these rules. Some years back, Lil Wayne was reportedly kicked off a chartered private plane for these same reasons. So the FAA did not give Britney Spears any serious reprimanding, and she was lucky to get off with just a warning. But it’s worth mentioning that People reports that the authorities have caught her doing such things before — the source said, “This is not her first warning. She doesn’t exactly follow the rules.”

The FAA has enough problems as is, and throwing the book at a celebrity who just did a minor infraction seems pretty low on their priority list. But if she keeps this pattern up, she might not be so lucky next time. Britney Spears has been going through a tough readjustment period post-conservatorship, with this just being the latest episode of that particular chapter of her life. Spears, of course, is going through a recent divorce from Sam Asghari, which apparently took a financial toll on her despite the ironclad prenup that she had.

Britney Spears’ life has had various episodes of her struggling with too much attention from the public eye, and it’s not a secret that that brings about a emotional strain. There have been reports that the way she deals with the emotional turmoil and isolation is with lavish vacations and other exuberant purchases. This is what made the conservatorship so complicated, because on one hand, it’s been proven to have aspects of poor treatment to the people who need it. But there’s also another side of the coin, where some people truly are not emotionally stable enough to handle the vast amounts of wealth that they’ve accumulated over the years.

Just recently, there was a case of Cher’s son spotted in the streets of LA disheveled and alone. It would be quite a spiral if Britney Spears also gets there too. But we’re getting ahead of ourselves — this, at the end of the day, is just a minor error on her part, and the fact that she immediately put it off at least suggests a sense of self-preservation. Even Spears’ own peers admit that the attention that she got from the tabloids and paparazzi during her prime would have driven any of them mad, so picking on her for the slightest issue — while always en vogue — appears not to always be the right thing to do.

Britney Spears’ representatives have not responded to questions about this incident as of this moment. We wish her a peaceful life as she continues to readjust to life out here.