VIDEO: Passengers kicked off plane over ‘airplane mode’ dispute

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A SkyWest flight attendant kicked five passengers off a flight in Indiana after arguing whether or not a phone was turned to airplane mode.

 

A flight attendant kicked four adults and a child off a flight in Fort Wayne, Indiana after a dispute over whether or not a phone was in airplane mode.

 

The flight was operated by SkyWest Airlines, which operates in partnership with Delta.

 

Robyn Rodgers, one of the passengers removed from the flight, documented her argument with the flight attendant on Instagram.

 

“The flight attendant rudely told me to put my phone on airplane mode. As I was swiping to it the attendant menacingly stood over me with her arms folded waiting for me to do it. I told her “I know how to turn on airplane mode, you don’t have to stand over me.”

 

“She became agitated and said “If you’re gonna act like that we can go back to the gate and you can get off.” I held up my phone to show her that airplane mode was on. She stormed to the front then came back to my seat and said we were going back to the gate.”

 

Ms Rodgers claims that Delta refused to put any of the ejected passengers in a hotel for the night despite flight DL4527 being the last of the day to Atlanta.

 

A SkyWest Airlines told The New York Post that they were looking into the allegations of discrimination aboard the flight.

 

“We take all allegations of discrimination seriously and are reviewing reports from SkyWest flight 4527 operating as Delta Connection,” the statement read.

 

“We are disappointed that our customers had this experience and are working with our partner Delta to follow up directly with the customers involved.”

 

Apologies y’all this is a LONG post but I have to share this. First, I want to acknowledge because I am painfully aware of the serious and profoundly heartbreaking injustices/events happening in our world and communities,I have grappled with sharing my experience. It seems small in the face of those things. But the micro is important and little things that go unchecked spiral. So I was on a flight leaving Fort Wayne, Indiana this past Saturday June 23rd after doing a DJ workshop for #gearfest @sweetwater for @serato when I was unfairly ejected from @delta flight 4527. Just before take off the flight attendant rudely told me to put my phone on airplane mode.As I was swiping to it the attendant menacingly stood over me with her arms folded waiting for me to do it. I told her “I know how to turn on airplane mode, you don’t have to stand over me” She became agitated and said “If you’re gonna act like that we can go back to the gate and you can get off” I held up my phone to show her that airplane mode was on. She stormed to the front then came back to my seat and said we were going back to the gate. She then accused me of not turning on airplane mode after being “told to do so several times”. She only asked me once. I then asked her “What can we do to rectify this so that we can all go?” She said “You can comply” and I repeated that I had and she argued I did not. At that point the passenger sitting behind me @ryanmillerphotos told her that I had complied and he witnessed me doing so. She then threatened to kick him off of the flight as well. A Latina woman two rows ahead politely asked the flight attendant to sit down so that we could fly and the attendant snapped at her. We returned to the gate an officer boarded the plane and the flight attendant directed him to take me, the Latina woman @ryanmillerphotos off of the flight then the entire plane had to deboard. Subsequently 4 adults and a little boy were ejected permanently from the flight and stranded in Indiana with no place to stay as @delta refused to put any of us,including the man with the child,in a hotel. That was the last flight out. Elena, the Latina woman who was also ejected was rushing

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