NY – Several passengers have been evicted from a US airline flight United Airlines that operated the route that links Eagle (Colorado) with Newark (New Jersey) for their “disruptive behavior” after they panicked because a person had coughed and sneezed several times.
The pilot made the decision during the flight to divert to Denver because a “small group” refused to follow the instructions of the cabin crew.
“After landing safely, the authorities approached the plane, passengers were evicted and the flight continued its route to Newark,” company members said in statements to KCNC-TV.
In the midst of the crisis over the coronavirus from Wuhan (Covid-19), the crew verified that the passenger in question did not present a fever and assured that he simply presented an allergy picture, with his own symptoms, so he was allowed to stay on the plane.
The flight landed in Newark with an hour and a half delay due to the incident.
Another passenger named Jordan Safirstein related through his Twitter account that “it turns out that a person was in panic for having sat near a person who was coughing or sneezing and made unreasonable demands.”
“There came a time when he became a ‘wayward’ and uncooperative. There is no Covid-19 here,” Safirstein said through the social network.
Likewise, United’s official account has also issued a tweet about it in response to Jordan Safirstein’s.
“Hello, Jordan. We are very sorry for any concern that this may have caused you. While there was a situation with a passenger that forced us to evict a group from the flight, we can confirm that in no case was it a medical situation,” he concluded The airline.
Coronavirus cases in the United States now exceed 700 infections and at least 26 deaths have been recorded.
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