An aeroplane travelling from Miami to London turned back because a passenger refused to wear a face mask, the airline has said. The BBC has more.
American Airlines said flight AAL38 with 129 passengers on board returned to Miami where police were waiting.
They escorted a woman in her 40s off the plane, reports say.
She has been placed on a list of people barred from flying with American Airlines, pending further investigation, the airline said.
The Wednesday flight turned around about an hour into its journey, according to tracking service FlightAware.
The woman was sitting in first class, another passenger Steve Freeman told Miami’s Local 10 news. …
Passengers on the flight to London’s Heathrow Airport were re-booked on to another flight for Thursday. …
“They wouldn’t really say anything, and I don’t believe they told the flight attendants anything either, because they said that all they could say was there was an extreme incident with a passenger and they had to turn around,” [a passenger] told the station.
Airlines reported nearly 6,000 incidents involving unruly passengers last year and 151 in the first two weeks of this year, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. Most of them involved passengers who refused to wear masks.
What a ridiculous waste of fuel, time and money over something so pointless.
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Perhaps the CEO of American Airlines should be asked to provide the EVIDENCE for mask effectiveness. He can’t of course.
Along with proof of asymptomatic transmission. [hint: there is no such proof – not one clinically documented case out of the millions of cases]
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I think the pilot made an error in this case. All airline executives begging the federal gov’t to drop mask mandates on flights, because air on planes is about as good as it is going to get!
I’m surprised one of the nickle-and-dime airlines (toilet sir? Certainly, that will be £5) hasn’t come up with a way of charging extra for the virus-free free air.
So now not wearing a mask is an “extreme incident”? Gawd help us. The stupidity of the human race is unlimited.
Let’s spend 4 hours in a metal tube with a few hundred others but expect a bit of cloth or paper to stop an aerosolised virus. Yeh, sure.
This the reason I wont fly until this nonesense ends. Which probably means I’ll never fly again. Hey ho.
Remember that Fauci wants to keep masks on planes forever. Even though there is no proof they do a darn thing (really anywhere, but especially on planes). America is nuts, and my family begging me to come for a visit will have to wait until American sanity has returned and people can choose to go maskless on-board. Until then count me on the side of the disrupters.
Can I suggest any normal person boycotts American Airline and let it become the favourite airline of the terrified.
“What a ridiculous waste of fuel, time and money over something so pointless.”
Couldn’t have put it better myself. Absolute twats.
I was the only passenger on a UK domestic flight (EXE – EDI) Aug 2021 not wearing a face mask. I was asked by the cabin attendant when boarding if I had a face mask. Saying I was exempt was not enough so I showed him my downloaded ‘mask exempt’ form from the NHS – “thank you sir, that’s fine”.
I am not sitting on a long haul flight with masked cabin attendants so the international UK carriers will have to drop this nonsense before I will be giving them my money.
They can probably carry on without your money. And… they are!
The traditional anwser is to have a folded $10 bill tucked inside your passport by your photo.
Oooops, sorry my bad, wrong third world country.
On Tuesday, the [Kiribati] government confirmed that 36 of the 54 passengers [arriving from Fiji] had tested positive. All of the passengers on the flight are fully vaccinated, the government said. Source: BBC News 22nd Jan 2022.
Regarding the wearing of face masks, I’m about to send some commenters bouncing off the walls.
Like many in fly-over-country America, I don’t wear a mask when shopping. However, I do keep one rolled-up in my shirt pocket.
It’s partly to theatrically put on in case an authoritarian store employee orders me to – my intentions being to drive them bonkers.
It’s also partly a precaution.
Several weeks ago, I was beginning to shop for shirts, going through the styles and colors. The store was smallish but not crowded, probably a dozen people in it.
Someone coughed. Then someone else coughed. Then the first person coughed again. Those were coughs, not sneezes. I quietly pulled the mask out of my pocket and put it on as I left the store, pressing the mask on the sides of my nose and breathing slowly. The moment I exited the door, I took the mask off, put it back in my pocket, and began thinking of what other retailer was in the area.
(I write this to see how many behavioral screeches I’ll get from the ideologically-fixated among us.)
Oh my Gad! Oh my Gad! Think of the CO2! Those poor polar bears!
Not sure of the plane’s altitude but this could be the high point of face mask lunacy. It’s like a bloody Monty Python sketch.
Either this was a planned manoeuvre if the pilot felt “a bit of scarring around the heart” (I hear its going around 10,000 feet up in the sky). Or the airline has a death-wish. Most airlines only make money from 1st and business class seats.
My conspiracy googles are firmly on.
Psychotic insanity!
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What a ridiculous waste of CO2 as well.
Maybe, except that plants at the bottom of the food chain need CO2 to grow, and the more they get, the better they do.
Lol. The woman is placed on a list of passengers who can no longer fly American Airlines.
As if she would want to.
Which list is longer do you suppose: the American Airlines no fly, or the public’s No American Airline?
Unruly:
I like her so far. Innocent until proven guilty is my verdict.
When they use that word they clearly mean uncowed by their threats dressed up in customer service double speak scripted to make insults sound like value added propositions
She was drunk….
From a US site; can’t get the link to load.
Steve Freeman… That’s got to be a fake name, or someone without a GSOH thought it’d be funny…
Attention all airline investors, executives and employees:
I categorically refuse to take any commercial airline flight until you do away with mandatory masks for passengers.
I have the greatest respect and admiration for commercial aviation as an industry. I recognise and respect the skill, dedication, and commitment all of the stakeholders in commercial aviation. But that said, I cannot, and will not, allow myself to be bullied into a pointless, uncomfortable, and (frankly) antisocial charade of mask-wearing.
I don’t care if refusing to fly commercial inconveniences me. I’d literally rather spend a day, a week, or a month, about a passenger seafaring vessel than submit to your tyranny.
Tyranny. And that’s what it is.
If you don’t get the message, then you deserve, all of you, to go bankrupt. I’d happily see you and your families die in poverty rather than spend hours wrapped up in a pointless and uncomfortable face nappy.
Note: This applies to everyone connected with commercial aviation. This applies to the engineers and technicians of Rolls Royce and BAE, it applies to commercial aviation maintenance personnel, it applies to employees at airports, it applies to pilots and cabin staff of BA and Ryanair, it applies to… Read more »
I am total agreement about the futility of mask wearing in ANY situation(except operating theatres and other ‘sterile’environments)
However last year I wanted to fly home and had to wear a mask for not just the whole trip but the previous two hours in the departure lounge and another 1 hour at Heathrow. 14 hours in total. I have never had any breathing problems even in highly polluted cities but I had breathing problems on the plane, nothing serious just panting for breath which eased as soon as I took my mask off for a few minutes.
I am stunned that the pilots who are all highly qualified and trained haven’t spoken out about this.
I could rant on for ever about these useless things but I will stop now.
some courageous pilots have spoken out [ and have lost their jobs ] and there is a group i forget the name in the u s
when will this insanity end .
one of the many great the white rose sticker s says ‘ flight delayed due to hurricaine brandon ‘gives you an idea how many airline employees are
courageous and refusing the jabs , must be a lot . terrible what they have done to pilots and all airline employees who rightly refuse this poison
We are all little children now who need to be taught lessons in obedience.
That’s what this is. Only a complete lunatic would consider that to be action that is proportional to health risk posed.
This may be about American Airlines’ insurance policy. Violate the terms of your policy (such as by breaking “public health” law) and you’re not insured.
Also it’s powerful propaganda. It recalls the local councils that put out stories saying e.g. “married couple aged 82 and 86 jailed for not paying the poll tax”. Or stories about people being jailed for giving a copy of some music or some software to their friend. Many in the population are very easy to scare into obedience. (Admittedly this is stating the obvious.)
I hope the victim of this action by the airline is OK.
Simple remedy for the dopey airlines….END THE MASK MANDATE ffs
If only. But not in our lifetime, if ever, I predict.
That’s called extremism, imagine that, sitting quietly without a mask, as you would do in a restaurant, and then you’re arrested.
as you would do in a restaurant THAT, LIKE IN AN AIRPLANE, CHANGED ITS ENTIRE AIR SUPPLY EVERY 3 F’ING MINUTES!
I believe if you’ve taken the decision to fly in an aluminium tube at 30,000 feet with a bunch of strangers, then you’ve already made a subconscious risk analysis. This and all the other incidents like it, were about making an example of the non compliant. Absolutely nothing to do with the health.
“In other words, the vaccines were rolled out in stages, first administered to the most elderly (80+years old) and then to the next group (70-79) and then to the 60-69 group some weeks later. The death peaks then followed the vaccination stages.”
Analysis By German Prof: “Thousands Of Hidden Deaths Daily” …May Be Greatest Medical Debacle In Human History (notrickszone.com)
“Prof. Kuhbandner then examined the mortality data for Germany and found the very same pattern: large jumps in mortality immediately following the vaccine campaigns. These deaths appear to be directly the result of vaccinations. It’s just too coincidental to be dismissed.”
I’ve long suspected this. I think getting the ONS to provide data on deaths within 14 days of vaccination is a huge priority.
As No.6 said ‘you won’t get it’
Actually they are providing it — the data shows a reduced death rate in older vaccinees in the 3 weeks following vaccination, compared with the death rate in the unvaccinated.
However, this is a statistical artefact caused by only vaccinating people who were otherwise well — this reduced the death rate in that post-vaccine period. To see the impact of vaccines you have to look beyond 21 days, at which point you see a significant rise in deaths, particularly in younger adults and teenagers.
Read this article:
” Unboostered Brits Infected and Dying at Higher Rates than UnvaccinatedUKHSA Vaccine Efficacy Statistics: Week 3
The UK Health Security Agency has been condemned for months to report incredibly inconvenient vaccine efficacy statistics. How they have struggled. They have composed disclaimer after disclaimer. They filled a whole blog post with special pleading. They have greyed out the inconvenient numbers.
In their latest report, published just this evening, they’ve tried something new and bold. They now only calculate case, hospitalisation and death rates for the unvaccinated and the triple vaccinated. The double vaccinated have been banished entirely from Table 12. This will make the evil negative efficacy go away, right?
Ha, no:
The numbers are unadjusted, it is true; much uncertainty surrounds the size of the unvaccinated population and therefore case rates within that group. What is more, these are cases, not true infection statistics. Nevertheless, res ipsa loquitur. It is not a great look.
In fact, the UKHSA have given us a great gift, in that they finally provide separate case and severe outcome statistics for the triple-vaccinated and the double vaccinated, allowing us to compare rates across all three groups. They don’t do that themselves, of course, but no… Read more »
In the article, there is reference to a 14 day delay in assigning vaxxed status, enabling the deaths occuring shorty after being jabbed to be disguised as unvaxxed deaths. I wonder where the 14 day interval is introduced. Most likely in the ONS, a metaphorical D+14 formula in a conceptual spreadsheet. The real raw data should be on the system and extractable via a suitable FOI eg via numbers of doses administered per day compared to number of 1st, 2nd, 3rd vaxxed per day.
These graphs are in Sen. R.F.Kennedys book = The real doctor fauci.
Well worth reading
I recall reading on the BBC news that the right response would be to lock them in the toilet. Something like that anyway. I think it is because covid is scared of toilets.
It is a bit confusing, though — our experience from pubs and cafes is that covid is scared when people sit down, but love it when people stand up. Yet covid loves people sitting in school classrooms and in planes. Luckily we’ve got VanTam to help us navigate the complex behaviour of covid.
She was obviously following the science!
Extreme incident, that sounds like a bare faced lie.
Straw manning, mountains out of molehills, it’s what they do when they own the megaphone.