Originally Posted by
HFHFFlyer
My colleague was in UD Club. He witnessed the captain rush out of the flight deck shortly before the doors were due to close and could hear a fair bit of pandemonium downstairs. One cc member said there had been a “fight” about space in the overhead bins. The captain was spotted placating a couple of angry pyjama clad F passengers at the bottom of the stairs who were demanding the offloading of the musician, a rapper. The rapper could be heard shouting abuse. He was not offloaded and eventually the flight left about 50 mins late. The captain again exited the flight deck mid flight and the rapper was seen at LHR at the end of the air bridge in animated conversation with four police officers.
I have only only just got this information.
The “point” of the “pointless” thread was pretty obvious. To find out more about what happened in the belief that some regulars on this forum may have been on board and willing to share.
Hello,
I was travelling in 1A.
The incident started when the rapper got excited about no overhead space in his locker and started to become aggressive, abusive and rude. I know his name however as Police is now involved I prefer not to share.
A woman started to cry and the situation escalated very quickly. I then jumped in as I can't tolerate any case of abusive behaviour. He threatened me personally because I jumped in. The CSD got involved. The Captain decided to
not offload him (don't ask me why because we really don't know, we were all shocked at his judgment call). Instead, the crew asked if any of us would feel safer by taking the next flight.
I personally asked for the Police to meet us at the gate as I felt not safe after his direct threats. I disembarked first escorted by Police and was asked to give a statement.
Police currently investigating. BA currently investigating.
Bottom line - based on Wikipedia this person has multiple convictions for assaults and other stuff...and has been banned from the UK twice already (I only found out on my way home).