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Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:
An elderly man's flatulence forced his flight to make an emergency stop after a fight broke out over his barrage of bottom burps.
Passengers flying with budget Dutch airline Transavia from Dubai to Amsterdam were reportedly put out by the man's continued farting, and asked him to stop.
But the man failed to hold it in, and when even a direct order from the pilot didn't take the wind out of his sails, two particularly incensed passengers took matters into their own hands.
Local media reported that two Dutchmen sat next to the trumper started a fight with the man, which escalated to the point where the pilot was forced to make an unscheduled stop.
On landing in Vienna, armed police boarded the plane to remove the men who caused the ruckus, along with two sisters who were seated next to them.
Also covered at The Straits Times.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 23 2018, @03:06PM (3 children)
In fairness, the sisters were also Moroccan, but appear to have been innocent bysitters.
(Score: 2) by aiwarrior on Friday February 23 2018, @04:03PM (2 children)
Where in the article do you get the information about morroco descent of the the Dutch?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 23 2018, @04:38PM
I saw this story a few days back in another paper.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 23 2018, @06:27PM
From Huffpo:
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.
From nltimes.nl:
The women, sisters returning from a vacation in Dubai, are pressing charges against the airline. They believe they were unjustly removed from the plane, possibly because they and the two men share a Moroccan appearance, 25-year-old Nora Lachhab said to the newspaper. "A shocking, frightening and humiliating experience. We have hired a lawyer."