Originally Posted by
fairviewroad
I don't see anywhere that it says he was removed for praying. He could have been reading the phone book for two minutes and theoretically the same series of actions would have followed.
A more accurate title to this thread would be "United kicks off a man for disobeying the instructions of the flight crew".
That being said, it's possible the United crew was hasty and overzealous. It's not entirely clear from the limited evidence in the article.
correct-he did not follow instructions and it's a simple as that and as
PlatinumScum posted in the other thread, "
........The passenger was removed for failing to follow crew member instructions. Period. Full stop. He could have been praying, meditating, running in place, or blowing bubbles; it doesn't matter.".
now, if you look at my post in the other thread, i bring up the point that according to the article,
the incident took place "while the united arlines jet was being boarded" and not buttoned up so if that is in fact correct, there were probably (n.b. probably) other pax in the aisles as well. not saying what the pax did was correct as in fact,
the pax was wrong, but the article does allude to other pax being up and about.