How is that clear?

Perhaps take a look at the previous incident of racist morons on this exact same route?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/5270500.stm

" It was a return holiday flight, full of people in flip-flops and shorts. "

So in other words, there were 198 sunburned Mancunians returning home from their bargain holiday, many still drunk on cheap Spanish beer and liquor.

"There were just two people in the whole crowd who looked like they didn't belong there."

And then there were two people who don't participate in this culture of booze and skin cancer and were travelling perhaps for family or employment reasons.

And the way the unrest on that occasion started?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/5269106.stm

"Our daughter noticed a couple of guys that were perhaps acting a bit strange. They went to the front of the queue, went to the back of the queue, and then they went and sat down by themselves."

This is how I, as a white person not typically subject to racial profiling, quite often behave, when boarding a flight. I think 'I'll get on first', and then I change my mind and say 'Actually no, I don't want to be stuck on a plane any longer than I have to', and go and sit down and wait till the very end.

'A few rumours went round, it was a little bit like Chinese whispers, and then "ome more people decided they were getting off."

So basically people said 'those guys looks a bit swarthy, we don't want to go on the plane with them"

This directly followed reports on the news about bombing plots (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_tr..._aircraft_plot)

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...s-removed.html

"Some of the older children, who had seen the terror alert on television, were starting to mutter things like, 'Those two look like they're bombers."

And following this disgraceful racism from everyone else on board, the men were alleged to have joked about it:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/5276504.stm

"David Wearden, 42, from Chester, said it was reports that the pair had been overheard claiming they had 30 minutes left to live which led to concerns.

It was then, he said, that his wife Susanne began talking to another passenger who said she had sat next to the two men.

"She said she had heard them saying it was the last 30 minutes of their lives," said Mr Wearden.

"It may well be that the two simply thought they were being funny, but it perhaps better explains the passenger reaction.""


Even if it was true, again as a white person mercifully largely insulated from negative profiling, I would imagine that if a bunch of idiot rednecks decided that because of the colour of my skin I was a danger, I might well mock their inbred idiocy (quite another matter from mocking the security personnel who are at least (hopefully) trained to assess security threats), mob rule, at least in England, not being in effect.



It seems clear to me, given that the man in this present case was allowed to reboard the flight, that he had done nothing wrong, and it was the fellow passengers who had caused the disturbance, because airlines will deplane people on the slightest pretext, so they would have done so here had they had any valid reason to dos.