Passenger coughs on passengers as she walks down the aisle.
A Scottish woman has been arrested after refusing to wear a facemask and coughing on passengers onboard an easyJet flight from Belfast to Edinburgh.
The incident started during the boarding process when the woman refused cabin crew requests for her to wear a facemask.
After a short standoff, the woman was asked to leave the plane as she made it clear she was not going to change her mind.
Video footage posted online shows the unnamed woman grabbing her bag and jacket, telling a flight attendant “I hope you f****** die”.
She then begins shouting: “You need to get a life. Everybody dies, you know that? Every f****** body dies. If it’s corona or not, everybody dies.”
The woman appears to deliberately cough on other passengers as she walks down the aisle towards the front of the plane.
In a statement issued on Sunday evening, easyJet said that they could “confirm that police attended flight EZY481 from Belfast to Edinburgh on 18th October due to a passenger behaving disruptively onboard and refusing to wear their face covering”.
“In line with EASA guidelines, all passengers are currently required to bring their own face covering for their flight which must be worn during boarding and onboard, except when eating or drinking.
“Passengers receive clear communications before they travel and via announcements onboard to ensure they are aware of this requirement for the health and safety of everyone onboard. We will not tolerate disruptive behaviour towards other passengers and crew.”
A spokeswoman for Belfast International Airport confirmed the passenger was arrested and is currently under investigation.
An Easyjet passenger is thrown off the Belfast to Edinburgh flight this afternoon after she refused to wear a face covering 👀 pic.twitter.com/YwRLNBK8aA
— stephen 🇬🇧 (@LFC_blano) October 18, 2020
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