Originally Posted by
meester69
* my view is that the passengers would not have reacted this way if the passenger had fitted the appearance of the typical passenger on this flight - i.e. white and sun-burned.
Indeed. And it's a well-justified view.
The hysterical, racist passengers and reportedly at least one hysterical flight attendant need to consider hiring a private plane or not flying if the sight of a "scary" "brown or black" man in such circumstances catches their imagination's paranoid fantasies about who knows what and makes them go bat crazy in the metal cave.