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One-hundred and one students and eight chaperones were asked to leave an AirTran flight from LaGuardia on Monday after their apparently raucous behavior delayed departure by 45 minutes.

The Yeshiva of Flatbush students were headed to Atlanta for their senior trip, where they were supposed to visit Six Flags.

Southwest Airlines, which operates AirTran, claims that the students refused to turn off their cell phones and kept getting up from their seats after repeated warnings from flight attendants.

“They were laughing at them and ignoring them,” a business-class passenger said to CNN. “The pilot warned them. They did not comply. They thought it was a joke.”

The Yeshiva has a different story. One of the students’ chaperones called the flight attendants "nasty" and said that the students obeyed  the flight crew’s instructions. "It blew out of proportion. It was a mountain out of a molehill," said teacher Marian Wielgus, one of the chaperones.

After the incident, the group was broken up into several groups and put on the next available planes, some of the students stuck in transit for more than 12 hours.

The Orthodox Jewish school in Brooklyn has launched an investigation into the incident.

“We take this matter seriously and have started our own investigation," Rabbi Seth Linfield, executive director of the Yeshivah of Flatbush, said in a statement. "Preliminarily, it does not appear that the action taken by the flight crew was justified."

Early last week, Tina Brown announced that she’d lured back Dan Klaidman, a longtime managing editor of Newsweek and its former D.C. bureau chief, who would flex his investigative reporting muscles as a special correspondent. Mr. Klaidman was among the last to ditch Newsweek after it was sold by the Washington Post Company to Barry Diller and Sidney Harman. On Friday, current managing editor Tom Weber, formerly of The Wall Street Journal, left the Beast after just six months on the job. He told Adweek he’s looking forward to getting back to working on his book.

On Monday, publisher Ray Chelstowski, the publisher, was reportedly dismissed, which was no surprise to Daily Beast insiders. One source told The Observer that he had been telling colleagues for weeks that he would not renew his contract. Mr. Chelstowski, credited with turning around Entertainment Weekly, started on Jan. 1 of this year. Many of his duties will be assumed by Eric Danetz, formerly of CBS Interactive.

Just hours after Mr. Chelstowski’s departure was reported by The Times, Ms. Brown’s second in command, executive editor Edward Felsenthal, sent a note to the editorial staff announcing his imminent departure.

In a 2009 interview with The Observer, Mr. Felsenthal, a former Wall Street Journal deputy managing editor, described the pace at the Beast as “exhausting,” but in his farewell note he wrote that building the Beast with Ms. Brown was the “most exciting” experience of his career and he was proud to have “invigorated” Newsweek and increased Beast traffic.

He added that Ms. Brown and company CEO Steve Colvin had been aware of his impending exit for months.  One year postmerger, he believes it’s time for some changes in leadership at the company, he wrote.

Evidently, NewsBeast brass agrees. Later that afternoon, Adweek reported that the Daily Beast had lured back a second staffer who had walked during the Tina transition, Mark Miller. A new position has been created for him: editorial operations director.

Adweek points out that Mr. Miller’s former role at Newsweek involved digital editorial management. But according to a Beast spokesperson, Mr. Miller will be a more or less direct replacement for Mr. Weber. Two editors will succeed Mr. Felsenthal in executive editorial roles: Justine Rosenthal at Newsweek and Jane Spencer at the Daily Beast.

A troika of women at the top of Newsweek’s masthead? That’s something new and different.