In the latest #FlyingWhileBlack incident to go viral, an irate passenger’s racist rant got her kicked off a Southwest Airlines flight from Chicago to Houston.
What We Know:
- On Sunday, video footage surfaced online showed the angry passenger call a flight attendant a “N*****” for simply asking the woman to raise her tray table so the airplane could take-off. Standard procedure.
- The woman then launched into a racist tirade, cursing out the flight crew and hurling racial slurs, which held up the plane’s flight for an hour, the Daily Mail reports
- The woman was escorted off the airplane and delivered to law enforcement, customers cheered.
- Southwest Airlines released this statement saying the woman was non-compliant with following the directives given.
See the bizarre interaction here:
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