Troubled NY1 anchor Dominic Carter gets booted off jet at LaGuardia

BY Alison Gendar, Kevin Deutsch and Christina Boyle
DAILY NEWS WRITERS

Dominic Carter was booted off a Delta Air Lines flight on Saturday after a scuffle with a flight attendant, capping off a disastrous week for the embattled TV newsman.

The NY1 political anchor was escorted from the Kansas City-bound plane by cops shortly before it was scheduled to leave LaGuardia Airport.

No charges were filed and cops later accused a Delta crew member of sparking the altercation.

Carter and his wife, Marilyn, were rebooked on a later flight and arrived without incident in Kansas City.

"The airline apologized to me," Carter told The News Saturday night.

The 45-year-old Carter who appeared in court last week to face domestic violence charges. He lost his NY1 job after it emerged he asked a judge to hush up the wife-beating charge, fearing it would ruin his career.

Carter refused to say why he was jetting to Kansas City, although a relative said the couple wanted to "get away."

Sources said Carter boarded the jet and walked down the aisle to use the bathroom before liftoff. As he bent over to tie his shoes he accidently bumped into a flight attendant, who became enraged and said: "This man deliberately slammed into me, I want him off the plane!"

Three police officers were called to the plane, and Carter cooperated and voluntarily left with them.

"He knew the flight attendant had recognized him in the wife-beating stories, so he decided to get off the plane," a source said.

The Carters arrived in Kansas City, after a stop in Atlanta, several hours later than planned. Delta "made good with some items for my wife and I," Carter said.

A Delta spokeswoman refused to comment.

Carter's wife has stood by her man throughout the drama, despite dialing 911 in October 2008 and claiming he punched her about the face several times and grabbed her by the throat.

She recanted her story a month later, saying she was attacked by an unidentified day laborer.