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.
Exactly. It wasn't the fact that he was praying. It was the fact that he was (possibly) holding up the plane for an on time departure. Had he been in his seat, seat belt on, praying there would be a problem. I see plenty of people pray in their seats before take off, during the flight, or landing. Its not the praying that was the problem.