Sometimes
plane travel really stinks.
A
flight from Dubai to Amsterdam had to make an emergency landing in
Vienna after a fight broke out because one of the passengers wouldn’t
stop breaking wind.
The
fart-induced fracas happened Feb. 11 aboard Transavia Airlines Flight
HV6902 when two men sitting next to an apparently very flatulent
man raised
a stink about his repeated gas attacks, according
to Fox News.
When
the alleged perpetrator didn’t stop, his disgusted seatmates
reportedly complained to the airline crew, who apparently did
nothing.
Instead,
the captain issued a warning to the two complainants, accusing
them of noisy
and aggressive behavior and
making threats, according to the NL Times.
When
the freedom-from-flatulence fighters wouldn’t stop griping about
their fellow passenger, a
fight broke out on the plane, according
to the Dutch language newspaper De Telegraaf.
The
pilots then made an emergency stop in Vienna and removed the
complainants, but apparently not the farting man. Two women sitting
in the same row as the angry men were also forced off the plane as
well.
All
four people reportedly shared Dutch and Moroccan ancestry, but the
two women claim they were simply sitting in the same row as the men
involved with the incident.
“We
had nothing to do with the whole disturbance. We distance ourselves
from that. Do they sometimes think that all Moroccans cause problems?
That’s why we do not let it sit,” one of the women said,
according to De Telegraaf. ”We had no idea who these boys were, we
just had the bad luck to be in the same row and we didn’t do
anything.”
“All
I will say is that the crew were really provocative and stirred
things up,” she added.
None
of the passengers kicked off the plane were arrested because they had
not broken any Austrian laws. However, they have been banned from
flying Transavia Airlines in the future.
HuffPost
reached out to Transavia Airlines, which did not immediately respond.
The airline did offer this statement to De Telegraaf that was
translated by the NL Times:
Our crew must ensure a safe flight. If passengers pose a risk, they immediately intervene. Our people are trained for that. They know very well where the boundaries are. Transavia therefore stands squarely behind the cabin crew and the pilots.
The
airline has reportedly filed a police report about the incident in
the Netherlands said it was “open to a conversation with these
women.”
