Here’s what you do when some suit walks on board your plane after you’ve been held up at the gate for an unacceptable amount of time.
Flight PK-370 was scheduled to take off from Karachi’s Jinnah International Airport for Islamabad at 19:00 local time (14:00 GMT) on Monday.
However, about 220 passengers were kept waiting for two hours. They vented their rage at Rehman Malik, former interior minister of Pakistan and Ramesh Kumar, Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N) MNA, who were late for the flight.
The video on YouTube shows that the two leaders were booed and barred from boarding the flight. The passengers accused them of holding the plane up; they were later joined by the crew members.
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People were heard grumbling "So-called VIPs" and "My foot VIPs."
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“Tell him to catch a bus," shouted one more passenger. "Is he god?" said another.
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"Close the gates and fly this plane to Islamabad. This should be recorded, Rehman Malik has been offloaded. We threw him out!" commented one more passenger.
After the two politicians were barred from the plane, the passengers started applauding.
RT
Malik says the plane was delayed due to technical reasons, which I guess means he was made aware of it, possibly staying in a VIP lounge until it was ready to go. But surely the crew members would know that, and they joined the passengers in barring him from the flight. I guess that could have been a nice deflection by the airline if they did indeed have technical problems. I’m not sure which angle is more likely considering the following action.
Soon after the incident, PIA suspended the shift manager, Nadeem Abro, and terminal manager, Shehzad Ali, of flight PK- 370 for irresponsibility and delaying the arrival of Malik and Kumar, a private news channel reported.
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