British-Pakistani boxer Amir Khan was removed from an American Airlines plane along with a colleague.
Amir posted a video message on his social media account, in which he expressed his displeasure over the incident saying, “Disgusted to be banned by @AmericanAir and @traveloneworld for not been able to fly to training camp, i got escorted by police off the plane for no reason. I would like to see evidence for any wrong doings.”
“I was taken off the plane today when I was going to training camp to Colorado Springs, by the police,” said Amir in the video message.
“Obviously a complaint was made by American Airlines staff, they said that my colleague’s mask was not high enough and not up, that they had to stop the plane and take me and my friend off when I did nothing wrong,” he added.
The boxer continued by saying, “Now I have to reschedule another airplane to travel back to training camp which is really upsetting, for no reason this was and I’m just so disgusted that American Airlines would do this to us and ban me from travelling.”
American Airlines said in a statement that before take-off, the aircraft had “returned to the gate to deplane two customers who reportedly refused to comply with repeated crew member requests to stow luggage, place cell phones in airplane mode and adhere to federal face covering requirements,” The Guardian has reported.