Passengers removed from Southwest flight to Houston from Chicago

“It’s not the American way, but it’s understandable why they’re doing it, I guess”, said John Schipkoski, a passenger on the fight.

A group of Arabic-speaking men were kicked off a Southwest Airlines flight in Houston. Yesterday a Spirit Airlines plane bound for Chicago was forced to make an emergency landing because of suspicious passenger behavior (which turned out to be a false alarm).

However, a spokesman has rejected calls from Muslim advocacy groups to apologize for ejecting the group.

Airline personnel told Chicago police that someone on the flight had tried to save seats for friends, causing upset among other passengers. The flight was delayed about an hour as a result of the incident.

Six people were removed from a Southwest Airlines plane at Midway Airport Wednesday morning after they “refused to follow crew members’ instructions”, NBC reports. “Nobody knows what’s going on”, Moran said.

Reuters said the passengers were removed after another traveller believed a woman was watching an Isis video.

‘She told the flight crew, which was most likely a flight attendant, and they spoke to the captain and the captain made the choice to go back to the terminal’.

Sgt. Jonathan Green, a spokesman for the Maryland Transportation Authority, said no criminal activity or violations of any kind were found to have been committed and the four were released, although they missed their flight to Chicago.

He described the four as a husband, wife and relative traveling together and a third man who was sitting near them.

Emergency vehicles sit parked near an Air France plane that was diverted to Salt Lake City worldwide Airport, Tuesday, November 17, 2015, in Salt Lake City.