Unruly passenger insults crew before being escorted off plane
A man started his New Year off on the wrong flight.
A plane traveling from Sydney, Australia, to San Francisco on New Year’s Day was diverted to Auckland, New Zealand, after an unruly passenger hurled insults at the crew and others on board.
Passenger Anjou Ahlborn Kay captured video of the unidentified man berating a flight attendant and calling her a “fat ass.”
“A bigoted passenger screamed racist, homophobic, misogynistic, disturbing words to passengers and crew, then called the flight attendants every offensive thing in the book. Kudos to the flight attendants who remained calm but really sucks this one idiot has grounded us,” wrote Kay along with the disturbing video.
When told the captain would be turning the plane around, the man can be heard sarcastically telling the flight attendant, “Do you know how cool it would be to have the airplane turned around? You’d do that?”
When the cops arrived to arrest him — as can be seen in a second video posted by Kay — the belligerent man had a lot less to say.
Unfortunately for the 252 passengers on the flight, they were stuck in Auckland overnight and had to be put up in hotels, the Daily Mail reported.
“Kudos to the flight attendants who remained calm but really sucks this one idiot has grounded us. Luckily made friends with my amazing seat mates as we dealt with the last 24 hours,” Kay wrote.