Originally Posted by
yulred
I don’t think any AC captain would toss 20 people off - evidently without their cabin baggage - unless some extraneous (non-safety related) pressure forced them to do so.
I don't think any AC captain would do anything other than take the FA at their word and kick off the pax.
I've witnessed pax being removed before. Neither pilot left the flight deck until the pax was already off the plane. There was no independent verification.
Originally Posted by
yulred
And more to the point, do we even know if they booted the real offenders at all?
Do we even know if there were any offenders?