{"id":75795,"date":"2018-03-19T15:11:01","date_gmt":"2018-03-19T22:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=75795"},"modified":"2018-03-19T15:11:01","modified_gmt":"2018-03-19T22:11:01","slug":"passenger-thrown-off-spanish-flight-for-yelling-racial-slurs-at-staff-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2018\/03\/19\/passenger-thrown-off-spanish-flight-for-yelling-racial-slurs-at-staff-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Passenger Thrown Off Spanish Flight for Yelling Racial Slurs at Staff (VIDEO)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"b-article__lead\">\n<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Sputnik<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Over the weekend, video footage surfaced showing a 70-year-old man getting kicked off a Binter Canarias flight for yelling racial slurs at a flight attendant on a flight from Tenerife, in Spain&#8217;s Canary Islands, to the Spanish island of La Palma.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"b-article__text\">\n<p>Recorded by\u00a0a fellow passenger, footage of\u00a0the Wednesday incident shows the moments after\u00a0the man allegedly told the stewardess to &#8220;get out\u00a0of here&#8221; and that he did &#8220;not want blacks by\u00a0his side,&#8221; Spanish media reported. The traveler is white; the flight attendant is black.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Detienen a un pasajero que propin\u00f3 insultos racistas a una azafata\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iSNZxH-Lw6g?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Spanish police were called to\u00a0the scene after\u00a0the man failed to\u00a0follow directions by\u00a0both the flight attendant and the plane&#8217;s captain to\u00a0disembark. The San Francisco Gate reported that the man later agreed to\u00a0get off\u00a0the flight after &#8220;a brief protest.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The flight to\u00a0La Palma was delayed for\u00a0a total of\u00a020 minutes at\u00a0North Tenerife Airport in\u00a0the Canary Islands before\u00a0it was cleared to\u00a0take the skies.<\/p>\n<div class=\"b-inject m-inject-min\">\n<div class=\"b-inject__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" title=\"A United Airline Airbus A320 aircraft lands at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, Illinois, U.S., April 11, 2017.\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn4.img.sputniknews.com\/images\/105256\/08\/1052560880.jpg\" alt=\"A United Airline Airbus A320 aircraft lands at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, Illinois, U.S., April 11, 2017.\" width=\"705\" height=\"375\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"b-inject__copy\">\u00a9 REUTERS\/ KAMIL KRZACZYNSKI<\/div>\n<div class=\"b-inject__content\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sputniknews.com\/society\/201803041062200363-airline-puts-80-year-old-woman-on-wrong-flight\/\">\u2018You Lost a Person\u2019: Airline Puts 80-Year-Old Blind Woman on Wrong Flight, Treats Her Like \u2018Lost Luggage\u2019 (PHOTOS)<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Spanish airline later released a statement noting their &#8220;rejection&#8221; of\u00a0and &#8220;outrage&#8221; at\u00a0the behavior that the flight attendant faced.<\/p>\n<p class=\"marker-quote1\">&#8220;From Binter, we want to\u00a0express our utmost rejection and outrage at\u00a0behaviors of\u00a0this type and show our full support to\u00a0our crews who constantly strive to\u00a0provide the best service to\u00a0our customers,&#8221; the statement read.<\/p>\n<p>Binter Canarias has since\u00a0filed a complaint against\u00a0the passenger for\u00a0his racist abuse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Sputnik Over the weekend, video footage surfaced showing a 70-year-old man getting kicked off a Binter Canarias flight for yelling racial slurs at a flight attendant on a flight from Tenerife, in Spain&#8217;s Canary Islands, to the Spanish island of La Palma. Recorded by\u00a0a fellow passenger, footage of\u00a0the Wednesday incident shows the moments after\u00a0the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}