Jewish refues airplain
A flight from Athens to Tel Aviv has been
delayed for almost two hours after a
group of Israeli Jewish passengers
refused to fly with Palestinians on board,
reportedly accusing them of being
“terrorists”. Aegean Airlines flight 928 was stuck on
the tarmac on Sunday night as the
altercation continued, with the Jewish
passengers preventing the plane taking
off by standing up until the two
passengers they complained about were removed. The Greek crew did not initially
understand the cause of the dispute, Maariv newspaper reported, and continued with preparations as the two
passengers from East Jerusalem were
bombarded with accusations. The complainants claimed the Israeli
Arab citizens could be “terrorists”,
according to Israel Radio, and demanded to search their luggage even after they
had left the aircraft, but were refused by
stewards. Satellite tracking by the Flight Aware
website showed the plane was delayed
by almost two hours in Athens. Tracking website Flight Aware shows the
plane was due to take off at 10.30pm
local time but did not leave for Tel Aviv
until 00.24am. A spokesperson for Aegean Airlines
confirmed the incident, telling The
Independent a small group of passengers
had “very vocally and persistently asked
for two other Israeli passengers to be
checked for security issues”.<p>Follow this blog on latets news update.ekairiaworld.blogspot.com