An American man removed from a Delta transatlantic flight prior to take-off said he and a friend were taken off the plane after he was overheard by other passengers speaking Arabic. The airline later confirmed an incident in which a number of passenger expressed “discomfort,” but did not elaborate on the cause of what it described as a “disturbance.”
Flight 1 from London’s Heathrow Airport was scheduled for New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport, according to Delta.
“Two customers were removed from this flight and later rebooked after a disturbance in the cabin resulted in more than 20 customers expressing their discomfort,” the airline said in a statement today. “We’re conducting a full review to understand what transpired. We are taking allegations of discrimination very seriously; our culture requires treating others with respect.”
In a separate statement later today, the airline added: “We take all allegations of discrimination seriously and we are gathering all of the facts before jumping to any conclusion. Our culture requires treating everyone with respect. Furthermore, Delta people are trained to and frequently handle conflicts between passengers.”
YouTube star Adam Saleh posted a video to Twitter showing himself in the aisle of the plane prior to being removed from the flight. In the video, Saleh says he is being kicked off for “speaking a different language.”
But some online commenters have expressed skepticism over the incident, noting past pranks that Saleh has posted on social media.
Saleh’s YouTube channel includes numerous videos. In one, he says he is a “professional idiot” when he claimed to have stuffed himself inside a suitcase flown from Melbourne to Sydney on board a Tigerair flight.
But speaking to The New York Times today, Saleh insisted that his removal from the plane was no stunt. “The only thing I can say is, I would never film a phone video. That’s when it’s really serious, and I must film,” he told the newspaper.
In the video posted to Twitter today, some passengers behind Saleh can be seen waving and saying “good-bye.”
However, one other passenger says to the Delta staff, “Why are you guys doing that?”
“‘Cause we spoke a different language,” Saleh says.
“That is so upsetting,” the other passenger says.
Delta staff is seen in the video asking him to walk towards the front of the plane while Saleh is visibly upset.
Saleh told ABC News in a phone interview that he was speaking to his mother on the phone, in Arabic, when a woman told a Delta crew member that she felt unsafe. Saleh added that he was flying with a friend of his.
The crew, according to Saleh, then told him and his friend that they were removing them for being too loud and disorderly.
After being removed from the flight, Saleh says police and airport security spoke with the pair.
After the earlier video in which Saleh claimed to have stuffed himself inside a suitcase on a Tigerair flight, the airline later pointed out inconsistencies with his story and said the video was a hoax, according to news reports.
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Is word press making these gross shitty ads mandatory now on blogs ? Every post has them now never seen before.
The last 2 administrations Islamaphobia programs have worked remarkably well.
“… a disturbance in the cabin resulted in more than 20 customers expressing their discomfort,”
Due to their extensive ‘programming’.
Stupid sheeple.
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