At first it sounds like a typical case of bad behavior aboard airplanes.

The Mexico City International Airport acknowledged in a statement Friday that a man had opened an emergency exit and walked out on a wing of a plane that was parked and waiting for takeoff Thursday.

The airport said the man had been turned over to police.

But dozens of fellow passengers signed a written copy of a statement saying the airline made them wait for four hours without ventilation or water while the flight was delayed. According to photos of the statement posted online, fellow passengers said he acted “to protect everyone, with the support of everyone.”

  • Alien Nathan Edward@lemm.ee
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    dozens of fellow passengers signed a written copy of a statement saying the airline made them wait for four hours without ventilation or water while the flight was delayed. According to photos of the statement posted online, fellow passengers said he acted “to protect everyone, with the support of everyone.”

    “The delay and lack of air created conditions that endangered the health of the passengers. He saved our lives,”

    wow airlines can just do whatever and if you don’t like it the cops will beat the shit out of you

    Here is a list of people who were sold seats on an airplane, then threatened with violence and arrest when it turned out the airline didn’t have the seats to sell. One woman tried to use a seat she had purchased for her 2 year old instead of her teenage son for whom it was originally purchased. She was told that if she didn’t give up the seat that they would take custody of her kid from her. Another woman bought a seat for her child, and then the airline just sold the seat out from under her to a standby passenger and told her “too bad”. She said she was afraid to speak up because the last time she had seen other passengers who insisted on actually getting what they paid for beaten up and dragged away by police. Don’t worry though, instead of giving her the seat she purchased they gave her a lei.

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      11 months ago

      Welcome to the wonderful world of post-9/11 authoritarianism. Remember, it’s all to protect you from terrorists so they’re justified in doing anything they want to you