A woman who was purportedly removed from a United Airlines flight for a racist rant and for trying to open the emergency exit door was serenaded off the aircraft with a tune that left the entire first class cabin in stitches.
Woman Removed From United Airlines Flight For Racist Rant, Trying To Open Emergency Exit Door Is Given A Humorous Sendoff
Instagram video shows the final moments, with a woman being escorted off the flight. According to the passenger who took the video, the woman was “screaming racist things” and tried “to open the door to the plane while in the air.” That forced an emergency landing.
The date of the incident and the flight route were not revealed, but as the woman was being escorted off the aircraft by police officers (I cannot even make out the municipality on the patch…), one of the first class passengers began playing the theme song from Curb Your Enthusiasm for the entire cabin to hear.
…and not surprisingly, the cabin broke out laughing.
Meanwhile, the woman escorted off the aircraft nonchalantly checked her phone.
Quite appropriate…
The Instagram video has racked up over 1,000 comments and many are treating the woman with sympathy. For example, one flight attendant explained:
As a former flight attendant I could tell you how many different things sometimes horrific things happen on flights. Sometimes people are claustrophobic and cannot handle being in an tight tube. I know there are meds for this but in reality everyone is going through something and we do not always know the true story. Compassion comes to mind.
Yes, compassion may be warranted. On the other hand, if this woman unlesed a racist tirade and then tried to open the emergency exit door, she risked the safety of others onboard. We don’t have to celebrate her downfall, but we also don’t have to whitewash it…sometimes humor is the best way to handle a difficult situation. Let’s not forget that every other passenger onboard was inconvenienced by the emergency diversion.
CONCLUSION
These days, you can expect any incident onboard an airplane to be recorded and broadcast. I tend to think that is more for the better than for the worse, as it encourages accountability. But rarely do we see humor thrown in…it was a fitting sendoff.
This isn’t hilarious Matthew, it barely registers above mildly amusing. You fail.
I think if you watched Curb Your Enthusiasm it was.
I did, sexy man, and it sucks. He’s overrated, Seinfeld was way better.
No, it wasn’t. Seinfeld was written for a broader, simpler, dumber audience, which your comments show that it succeeded. Seinfeld himself was an average comic (at best), and a terrible actor. And the couple years where Larry David was not involved led to the show’s conclusion (with LD’s help).
Curb Your Enthusiasm was a different beast, and allowed David to do whatever he wanted without any constraints. It was a much more nuanced, and sophisticated show that would never appeal to a ‘fly over’ viewer like Chi Hsuan.
Towards the end of Seinfeld, where Larry David was absent, were the best seasons.
Curb your enthusiasm was a dull, unfunny slog fest enjoyed by aging snobs like yourself.
Seinfeld was funny until he took a stand supporting illegal settlements in the West Bank.
Gee, Democrats say 9nly white people can be called racist because of revenge or something, never mind the definition.
Xenophobia and hostility to other ethnic, religious or tribal groups is not limited to any particular national, ethnic, religious or tribal group. There are also lots of racists in Asia and elsewhere in the world. But in the hierarchy of hatred, different groups seem to have different groups as their priority hate group and sometimes those hierarchies of hatred change over time. For example, a lot of the antisemites in Europe toned down their antisemitism or even gave up on it in public because Islamophobia and migration from Africa and western and central Asia became their primary target group for hatred as “enemies of my enemies are my friend” thinking took hold across much of the racist ethnic European communities around the world and then reverberated beyond just those communities.
Is “whitewash” perhaps a poor choice of words for this report?
Amazing. If I ever see someone walked off after a meltdown, I’m going to do this. Hopefully I’m not the one getting walked off.
Bad Boys would have been much better.
“Goodbye, Fare Well… from Sound of Music would have been a good choice too.
TSoM’s “How do you solve a problem like Maria” might work in this situation.
You tell story after story of people like this. It’s not blogging or reporting about the airline industry it’s schadenfreude. It’s like slowing down to look at a car accident. Many of these individuals are having serious mental health challenges and your tone is mocking and unpleasant. You spend most of your time traveling in the front of the plane and have little understanding about people. Focus on proper industry stories instead of airplane sensationalism. You can and should do better.
These stories pay the bills…I will continue to cover them. They bankroll my more serious writings and that’s just the way the world works…