Passengers boo crew as woman is kicked off flight
Passengers on a US flight have booed cabin staff for kicking a woman off a plane after an encounter with a flight attendant.
Video of the incident shows a tearful passenger insisting “she didn’t do anything” as other travellers boo loudly and one informs staff they “just lost a lot of customers”.
The woman was allegedly ejected after complaining about a “rude” flight attendant who had earlier told her to sit down.
"Are you serious? He was so mean to me," the woman said in the video.
According to the reports the passenger failed to hear the man’s request for her to sit down, but she later complained about his manners to another member of the crew.
Shortly afterwards she was asked to leave the flight out of Portland International Airport in the US state of Oregon.
“It was nuts, and that poor woman was so upset,” passenger Bill Byrne told KATU.
“She handled it well, but you could tell it was super embarrassing for her.”
According to reports, the passenger was rebooked on another flight.
American Airlines has said it is aware of the incident and is investigating.
Mid-air drama
In 2013 a man faced serious consequences after losing his cool on a Singapore flight and started swearing at another passenger. Singapore's obscenity laws take a very dim view of foul language. He faced 24 lashes over the outburst.
Losing ones cool, whether through anger or inebriation, is never a dignified look. A man on a Siberian airline was left in a humiliating position after getting drunk. He was subsequently subdued and restrained by other passengers.
In some cases flights face long and expensive delays as authorities grapple with troublesome patrons, such as this woman who threw a tantrum when asked to restrain her dog. She was removed from the flight but not before she let everyone within ear shot know her thoughts on the matter. The unedifying display was recorded and uploaded.
The United States has also been watching as passengers become more aggressive. Punches were thrown after one man who refused to hang up his phone on a flight out of Chicago.
While Britain is blaming alcohol, some in the US think the ever-decreasing size of airline seats for the rising tensions among passengers.
Upset with a man snoring loudly beside her, a woman on a different Chicago flight was in trouble before the plane left the tarmac after she stabbed him repeatedly with a pen.
With its O'Hare International Airport being one of the world's busiest, Chicago appears to have more than its fair share of incidents. This woman was ejected after being accused of punching a flight attendant.
And, from the violent to the outright disgusting, a man from Oregon in the US was accused of urinating on passengers on board his flight.
