Yeah he somehow got back on the plane, ran up and down the isles, then collapsed in a seat and was taken off on a stretcher.
“This story includes a lot of eye witness detail including the fact that many of the passengers walked off the plane in protest after the passenger was assaulted.”
That’s the dumbest thing I’ve heard about this. Why didn’t they volunteer to be bumped, get 1k, and prevent the whole thing? Passengers who actually left they proved they could have volunteered if they weren’t so self centered. In many ways we have become a nation with a lot of very childish, selfish, people that expect everything to go their way 100% of the time. Life doesn’t work that way.
It wasn’t $1K it was an $800 voucher for future travel with the airline, typically with blackouts and restrictions sufficient to make it difficult to use for any travel you’d actually want or need to do, ask people who are frequent flyers who have accepted them.
Hard to say, clusterf* comes to mind.
The other passengers may have been at first stunned not realizing what was going on. The action escalated quite suddenly. Then the passenger staggers back on bleeding & disoriented. Apparently a man who was chaperoning a youth group started the exodus.
That kind of violence unsettles people and the dial moves to I’ve had enough of this. I’m betting the rental car desks got lots of business.
I would have been uncomfortable remaining with that crew having see this unfold. Like the sinking ship and this is my last chance to get off before the doors close.