‘You Ugly People!’: ‘Intoxicated’ Woman Erupts In Racist Tirade Before Crew Is Forced to Duct-Tape Her Mouth on 11-Hour Flight, Video Shows

A video shows flight attendants duct-taping the mouth of a woman they had to relocate to the back of a plane on a Fiji-bound flight from San Francisco after she berated and screamed at cabin crew members and reportedly went on a racist tirade. The woman’s outburst was recorded by another passenger on a Fiji Airlines flight on Saturday, Jan. 19. The passenger who filmed the video told news.com.au that the disruption started about halfway through the 11-hour flight when the woman, who was traveling with her husband, began raising her voice. A video screenshot shows a woman being confronted by a flight crew. (Photo: X/@fijivillage) “The husband requested to be seated elsewhere when the woman started to raise her voice, and the altercation between the woman and crew started when the crew refused to tell the woman where he had been moved to,” said a passenger who spoke on the condition of anonymity. The woman reportedly began screaming and hurling verbal abuse and profanities on the plane, then threw objects at the flight crew and even slapped the hands of a flight attendant. “The other passengers were particularly upset by her overtly racist comments towards the Fijian crew members,...