A disruptive passenger who purportedly launched a “racist and vulgar” tirade on a flight from California to Fiji was shut up by flight attendants by placing tape over her mouth after demanding to know where her husband had disappeared to onboard.
Flight Attendants Forced To Tape Woman’s Mouth Shut After She Refuses To Cease “Racist And Vulgar” Diatribe
The disturbance occurred on Fiji Airways flight FJ 871 on Saturday, January 18, 2025, from San Francisco (SFO) to Nadi (NAN). Midway through the flight, a female passenger became agitated.
“It became known to crew and nearby passengers early into the incident that the woman was traveling with her husband, though they were sitting in different areas of the plane,” shared one passenger to news.com.au. “The husband requested to be seated elsewhere when the woman started to raise her voice, and the altercation between the woman and crew started when the crew refused to tell the woman where he had been moved to.”
Refusing to calm down and remain quiet, flight attendants were “forced to resort to restraining and taping the mouth” as she unloaded a torrent of “racist and vulgar” statements. The woman, whose citizenship is Australian, was believed to be in her 60s and intoxicated.
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The witness added:
“The other passengers were particularly upset by her overtly racist comments towards the Fijian crew members, with many calling out to the woman to be quiet and behave. Parents with children onboard were clearly upset with the excessive vulgar language and swearing with many seen blocking the ears of their children.”
Jacob Amoe Finiasi, another passenger onboard, added this view:
The flight landed on Monday morning (thanks to crossing the international date line) and police were waiting at Nadi International Airport to arrest the woman. Her legal status is unknown.
I’ll refrain from calling her Karen, but…let’s just say I understand why the husband wanted to move seats…
image: Jacob Amoe Finiasi / Facebook
still cannot duct tape the mouth based solely upon speech
Unlawful imprisonment and assault charges should be incoming for the FA
Not governed by American law. So WHATEVER
It left the USA. Thus, American law applies. Just as the smoking laws applied on all flights to, from, and overflying the USA
US law applies?
Only in the deluded view of a US citizen. It’s the law of the country of the flag of the airline once it leaves the airspace of the country of departure of if stopping en-route, the law of the country of stop over.
In any event, not to worry, criminals are pardoned in the land of Criminal Trump.
you lost, comrade Jimmy!
Trump is president, whether you like it or not. So stop your whining about it.
Then again, keep whining. I’d like to expand our margins in the midterms. We have some RINOs we need to deal with
Where do you come up with this? The flight was no longer subject to US jurisdiction where this happened. If the captain of the flight believes a passenger is making threats or otherwise verbally assaulting the crew, the captain is de facto chief law enforcement officer and can order passenger restraints to subdue the threat. Since the threats were verbal, a gag order it could have been.
The crew is the de facto law enforcement onboard the aircraft, and based on the threat level of behavior can take the appropriate action, which they did. The woman was not assaulted, Nice try muppet.
Fiji has two substantial ethnic communities: indigenous Fijians and Indo-Fijians, and there is quite the history of problems between the two communities. Was the mouth-taped woman unleashing a racist diatribe against just one of those Fijian communities or against both of those Fijian communities’ members?
Who cares? She was a pissed, obnoxious Aussie bogan who got what she deserved. People like her don’t see anything other than white and non-white.
There is quite the history of racist people going to where the targets of their racism are home, and this is but one version of just that. Or was she on a relatively cheap ticket to transit Fiji to try to get to some other country?
She seems nice.
Racist Australians are the worst kind of racists.
The troll woman yells “You ugly people!” at the lovely, graceful Pacific Islander flight attendants.
The uglier the mouth the uglier the person. No surprise her husband wanted to sit away from her. While the ugly wife does time behind bars, her husband gets a vacation from her.
Meanwhile, Dave Edwards read this and swiped right.
Sounds like they r headed for a really fun vacation.
She’s got some serious confidence berating a Polynesian woman. They don’t play and they lay the smack down on their grown sons