A woman was reportedly removed from a United Airlines flight after making racist remarks – and trying to open the emergency exit door. As she was ushered off the aircraft, the first class cabin burst into laughter.
Her final moments as a passenger were captured on video. She had reportedly been “screaming racist things” and tried to “open the plane’s door while in flight,” leading the captain to divert the flight.
Details about the incident, including the flight date and route, remain unknown. As police officers escorted the woman off the aircraft, a first class passenger decided to play the theme from Curb Your Enthusiasm, sparking a fit of laughter throughout the cabin. Despite the commotion, the woman calmly checked her phone on her way off the aircraft.
Last year a Delta Air Lines passenger was called out by their seat opponent over racist texts that weren’t kept private. Nothing happened to the passenger, though, other than having to sit uncomfortably for the flight after being exposed.
@taila.thecreator Sitting next to a racist on my four hour flight from Puerto Rico to Atlanta this week. Yes I could’ve minded my own business, but why should I let him slide? I happened to glance over and see the words “big black woman” so I continued reading. He and his family went on and on about the woes of being stuck sitting next to Black and gay people. Then I see this man say he hopes airlines continue to raise prices so these people get weeded out. If you’re gonna be bold enough to pull your phone out in the middle seat of an airplane and freely talk disrespectfully about Black people, then I’m going to be bold enough to say something to you. What would you have done? #traveltiktok #racistoftheday #racistencounter #airplanedrama #travelingwhileblack #blacktravelfeed ♬ original sound – Taila • Travel Tips
@taila.thecreator Replying to @TXSM9999 ♬ original sound – Taila • Travel Tips
@taila.thecreator Replying to @mamamimi1976 He wouldn’t even think in my direction when the plane landed. #racistsinthewild #airplaneencounters #blacktravelers #embarrassed ♬ original sound – Taila • Travel Tips
There’s an apocryphal story that’s made rounds on the internet since at least the late 1990s about a racist passenger complaining about being seated next to someone they deemed undesirable and demanding a flight attendant do something about it – and she did, upgrading the victim of this racism. The story was even turned into a public service advertisement in Portugal.
In this case, the passengers were already seated in first class! And the racist text woman no longer was.
(HT: Live and Let’s Fly)
i hope she got a fuel charge and what ever it cost to divert… she needs to pay not the airline
Maga has made such behavior normal on America
Dollars to donuts the woman wasn’t racist. I was called racist in this blog’s comment section yesterday for identifying an Uber Eats support agent as Indian. That’s all. I said the agent was Indian. I didn’t say Indians were dumb and smelly, or anything bad. Or good. I didn’t say anything. Just Indian.
And I got called a disgusting racist.
So pardon me if I don’t believe prima facie the woman was wrong in any way.
SFO/EWR. That’s wrong.
I’ve been blamed for the same by my overly-correct daughter, an English professor. She told me the correct way to phrase this is “the call was answered by an outsourced employee in India” or “the rep had a thick Asian accent that I didn’t understand”.
This matter of semantics is nonsensical. It makes me bristle that I have to pussyfoot around when she knows what I am trying to say. But in order to maintain the family peace…
I notice there aren’t many commenters for this particular story. Yes, there are a number of racists that comment on this blog. All of them are also chump fools. Go figure!
Everyone I don’t like is a Nazi …or a racist .
Nation of shitheads.
@ P C , In case you didn’t know MAGA stands for Make America Great Again, a universal slogan that every proud American should be in favor of regardless of race/background.
It should be noted that Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a lifelong Democrat, recently joined Team MAGA. In his case, he wants to Make America Healthy Again and we should all support his mission.
It’s too bad aircraft don’t have an airlock so that unruly passengers could simply be ejected. Pirate ships had an efficient method of getting rid of undesirables… Make them walk the plank.
Of course the FAA would most likely require the ejectee wear a belt with ADS B Out in the interest of avoiding a potential midair collision with aircraft.
@OnePatriot77
I’m old enough to have got a smallpox vaccine (and a booster in the early 70s). So pardon me if I don’t think an antivaxxer with a half eaten brain can make American Healthy
That was so… smooth. That lady’s not crazy, she’s just a little unwell.
(No one else noticed it’s Rob Thomas who posted the vid?)
@ SFO
I once got called out for using the word “Indian” when referring to riding elephants because the listener thought I was being insulting to Native Americans.
So the “thought police” are involved now. While I condemn racism in all forms, she was not yelling epithets and calling people names, nor raising a ruckus. The person that reported her should be condemned for not minding his own business. “Eyes on the road”. Also, why is everything pointed to politics. I am a Veteran and proudly served. There is nothing wrong with making America great. It needs to be great. That is the ONLY way this country can stand up to our adversaries. Right now, we are sitting ducks. Someone remember Pearl Harbor and September 11, 2001. We are headed for another just like those two…regardless of whom you vote for.
My favorite thing about this “incident” is that nobody reporting on it actually provides any factual evidence of what they lady said which was supposedly racist. Someone on social media simply claims that vague “racist remarks” were made, but of course only at a time when no cameras were rolling. Apparently this is all it takes to be summarily accused and convicted in the court of public opinion of either being racist or of making racist remarks by both VFTW and the absolute saint (in his own mind) who runs the “live and lets fly” blog.
Sad! But who needs facts when bare accusations are enough to get clicks, right?
Lars….100% correct. Very well said.
OnePatriot77 ,
1)America IS great. People who don’t believe it can get the ‘ell out of USofA.
2)MAGA Cult-leader had FOUR YEARS to do something about the USofA..he did practically nothing. No need for him to get a second chance.