Whitney Houston: buckling under pressure

A flight crew threatened to kick out singer-actress Whitney Houston from an aeroplane after she refused to buckle her seat belt.

The 48-year-old boarded a flight to Detroit, Michigan, recently, when she was asked to buckle her seat belt but she refused to do so. She was then threatened to be thrown out of the flight unless she followed the request.

Houston eventually agreed and the aeroplane was cleared for take-off.

"Houston overreacted a little bit after missing an earlier flight, but she is still 100 per cent sober and was on the way to Detroit for her first day of shooting a new movie," Tmz.com quoted a source as saying.