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Why Did Southwest Airlines Kick 6 Passengers Off A San Diego-Chicago Flight?

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If yelling and threatening people and demanding booze on a flight is wrong, I don’t wanna be right.

Holly Haber, Dallas Morning News:

FBI special agent T. Scott Hendricks has filed an affidavit explaining why Southwest Airlines diverted a San Diego-Chicago flight to Amarillo late Monday and booted six passengers off the flight.

Basically, according to Hendricks per Southwest, the passengers… were refusing orders from the flight attendants, challenging their authority and being mean to other passengers.

One flight attendant said that during the emergency demonstration prior to takeoff, the six “were asked numerous times to put their seat backs and tray tables up… to which they verbally responded ‘no…'”

That flight attendant denied their request for alcohol. They “became aggressive by lunging forward” at the flight attendant…

“They accused the attendants of being racist” and called the second flight attendant a “pig” as she walked away.

The flight was then diverted to Amarillo, and the men were arrested.

So who are these guys? More importantly, who do they think they are?

The six, said to be members of a San Diego area soccer team…

Ahh, okay, that explains it. Soccer players. We all know what those guys are like. Say no more.

P.S. I almost forgot. Here are their names, if it even matters:

Khalid Yohana, 19; Wasim Imad Shaker, 23; Essa Solaqa, 20; Ghazwan Assad Shaba, 21; Jonathan Khalid Petras, 20; and Saiman Hermez, 19