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Originally Posted by astmartins
it is my belief that he probably got up to speak because the Deportee was making too much noise and unfortunately, it backfired on him.
True thats about what happened i'm not sure about the bit of it backfiring the man was on his way to hes bothas wedding not looking forward to any confrontation or anything that would delay him as a fee paying passenger you are well within your rights to let the crew know of any disturbances on a 6 hour flight i would have done the same all that screming and kicking off we didn't pay for that inconvenience the deportee should have been taken off the plane..
Yes the situation in Nigerian internally is lamentable and life is so cheap out there you and i know to effect change in Africa is not quite straightforward due to strong arms tactics by the govt but it would change...however this is about Africans in the Diaspora paying for a service with a reputable carrier and getting suckered in the process its clearly not a case of Nigerians misbehaving....136 booted off the plane was unprecedented.....
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Did your cousin make his concerns known to the Police or to the crew? I wasn't sure about that.
Once the Police decide that they are going to arrest someone on a plane then it really has nothing to do with the airline
If the Pilot feels that the others 135 passengers were obviously too upset and riled up to fly then he had every right to order them off his plane.
I, however, do commend your cousin for being brave enough to speak out as it is not right that fare paying customer's be made to suffer a flight with someone who is obviously flying under duress.
As I said most Deportees are graceful when departing and there should be really no issue in having them travel with fare paying customers as long as they behave. Maybe your cousin should have lodged an official complaint against the airline after the flight but then again this case will probably highlight the need for the Home Office to pay out for special chartered flights instead.
Even though he was brave, I still your cousin made the wrong call on this one and I am sorry he missed his brother's wedding because of it.
Below is an article about a failed deportation order of some Nigerians from Trinidad.
The Trinidad Guardian -Online Edition Ver 2.0
" This comes in the wake of a failed deportation exercise in early June, when six Nigerian prisoners were taken off a commercial flight from Venezuela, bound for Nigeria via Spain, because of misconduct."