Tagged A Photo Of Someone 'Flipping Off' Passengers In The Cabin

A photo posted on Twitter that appears to be a flight attendant making a gesture widely known as "the finger" to a cabin full of passengers has cost an FA her job.

The photo was posted on the personal page of Aeroflot flight attendant Tatiana Kozlenko on the Russian social media site Vkontakte. It clearly shows the gesture being made from the back of an airplane towards a full cabin ... though no one appears to be looking back at whoever is making it, and Kozlenko's face does not appear in the photo. The shot apparently racked up dozens of "likes", according to a report appearing in the U.K. newspaper The Mail.

But then the photo went viral on Twitter, being re-Tweeted hundreds of times. Aeroflot did not find the photo amusing, and announced (also on Twitter) that Kozlenko was no longer employed by the airline.

Kozlenko admits that she tagged herself in connection with the photo on the site. But she insists that it is not her hand making the gesture, and it is not even one of Aeroflot's airplanes. She says someone else posted the picture to her page, and all she did was add the tag with her name. Kozlenko posted a plea for support from others using Vkontakte on her page, saying "I don't consider myself guilty."

FMI: www.aeroflot.com