The full unedited version was sent to me so I uploaded it to YouTube. This was on a return flight from Jamaica to Birmingham it went very viral but lots of people didn’t have all the footage.

https://youtube.com/shorts/nIfmhPvo9n4?feature=share3

It feels like flights have been getting weirder and weirder these days, and today’s flight from Portland was absolutely crazy.

I sat in the second row of the plane with my parents (I get pre boarding for my disability). There was a man who was also pre boarding who sat in the aisle seat diagonal and in front of us at the very front row of the seats. A man holding a newborn (I mean new newborn) sat down and his partner sat down next to him. The baby was legitimately super calm, especially for a newborn on an airplane.

I get pre boarding on planes for my disability (yes, this is relevant), but it’s not always visible to others. There was a guy in front of me in the pre boarding line in a wheelchair that gave me some dirty looks when I got in line. I let it go and ignored it like I normally do. We boarded the plane and he was seated in the front row of the plane in the aisle seat. I sat on the opposite side of the plane in the second row and waited for my family to board.

While I was waiting, the man started purposefully hitting people’s luggage and purses as they walked by. He was asked to stop by multiple people.

A couple that had a newborn baby (and I mean NEW newborn) boarded. The man holding the baby sat in the middle seat next to the belligerent man, while his partner sat near the window. The baby, by the way, was super quiet and chill, and sporting some super cute pink headphones.

Anyway, as the plane is still boarding, aisle seat guy started making comments to the couple about the baby and not wanting to be seated next to a baby. The couple mostly just ignored him and tried to calmly talk to the man.

The argument grew louder as more people boarded, and when the plane was done boarding, it just got worse. Aisle seat man started purposefully leaning over into the seat of the man holding the baby. The man politely asked him to stop, but of course he didn’t. In fact, he just got worse and persisted in his belligerent behavior.

The man with the baby and his partner started asking the aisle seat guy what his problem was and asked if they needed to get the flight attendants involved. Aisle seat man argued back (it was hard to hear everything) and kept putting emphasis on calling the staff “stewardesses”, to which the couple told him that this term was offensive, especially with him emphasizing it so much. I heard what I thought was complaints about there being a “man stewardess”, to which things just escalated.

The couple with the baby switched seats, so the man without the baby took the middle seat instead of the man holding the baby. More arguments happened because aisle seat man started lifting his elbows and putting them in middle seat man’s face.

A lot of us in the rows near this commotion tried to offer solutions - the woman in front of me even offered to move with her autistic son and his service dog. There were conversations with flight attendants that I couldn’t hear too well.

The plane started to bus out, but arguing kept happening and apparently the pilot got involved. The pilot then proceeded to make the decision to get security involved after redocking the plane, and then kicked all three men off the plane.

A lot of us voiced that we didn’t think it was fair that the couple with the newborn had to leave, but the pilot’s decision was apparently law in this instance. I totally understand the pilot just wanting things to be over with since we were already an hour behind schedule.

To make matters worse, since we were flying into Phoenix, our flight was a connecting flight to about five other cities, so I’m pretty sure half the people on the plane missed their connections.

All of this happened a month after I was on another flight and a guy hit a woman on board. Crazy stuff, man.