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| December 6, 2010 | Passengers on 'direct' flight to Morocco stage mutiny | | London: More than 100 passengers aboard a Moroccan budget airline staged a mutiny after the pilot announced some unscheduled stops. The aircraft operated by Jet4You had been due to make a 90-minute journey from Toulouse, France, to the Moroccan capital Casablanca. But the captain told the 137 passengers the plane would be stopping at Bordeaux and Lyon en route, adding another four hours to the journey. The travellers
rebelled against the idea and refused to sit and buckle their seatbelts, leaving the plane
stuck on the runway all night. And rather than reason with the paying customers, the
captain simply turned off the lights and heating in the jet and left the passengers inside.
"It was a total disgrace. We bought tickets for a direct flight taking less than
two hours," the Daily Mail quoted mother of two Majette Ouri, aboard the plane,
as saying. "But once they had us on board, they said we'd be making two unscheduled
stops and taking six hours to get to Casablanca . "Everyone decided they could
not let this happen and refused to allow the plane to take off. Then at that point
they simply turned of the lights and heating and left us there. "Passengers, with
a lot of children and old people amongst us, were cold and hungry. "It is frankly
an appalling way to treat paying customers," she stated. According to Toulouse
airport officials, 52 of the 137 passengers asked to get off the plane during
the night while 85 were still on the aircraft on December 5th morning. Jet4You
said it would transport the passengers to Casablanca on a direct flight, and had
found another means of collecting people stranded elsewhere in France. | |
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