(Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP)An African woman and her children were kicked off a United Airlines flight after a fellow passenger complained that she had a “pungent” odor, according to a racial discrimination lawsuit filed against the company. The incident involving the passenger, a white male, happened two years ago, when Queen Obioma, a Nigerian citizen, and her two children were boarding a flight from Houston to San Francisco. The passenger refused to move, so a flight crew member, instead, asked Obioma to sit elsewhere in business class. Despite her situation, crew members refused to let Obioma back onto the aircraft and removed the entire family from the flight. In April 2017, a viral video showed Chicago airport security officers forcibly dragging a passenger from a flight.

Source: Washington Post May 12, 2018 20:37 UTC