Passengers refuse to fly with two women in black on board

R. A. Hettinga rah at shipwright.com
Sun Oct 3 13:25:17 PDT 2004


<http://english.pravda.ru/printed.html?news_id=14300>

       - PRAVDA.Ru


 Passengers refuse to fly with two women in black on board - 09/23/2004 13:51

 Incidents when Russian passengers refuse to fly due to suspicious-looking
females of Middle Eastern descent are becoming a norm these days.

  On September 1, the day of the Beslan tragedy, passengers of a
Moscow-bound flight from Sharm el Sheih (Egypt) refused to fly with two
Muslim women in traditional clothes onboard. This time, another flight from
Moscow to Khurgada has been delayed.

  ?Two Egyptian women were set to fly aboard a TU-154 airplane ofKrasAir?
departing for Khurgada,? stated RIANovosti?s? spokesman.

  A group of five students from Dagestan were the last ones to board the
aircraft. Among them were two Egyptian women dressed in black.

  ?Considering the recent events, security services searched them
thoroughly. Their documents were fine; nothing was wrong with the luggage
either. However, due to such time-consuming security check, they were the
last ones to board the plane. This in turn caused major uproar among the
passengers. People demanded them to be taken off the flight,? added he.

  ?A young man accompanied by a woman and two children was the last one to
step aboard due to a long security check. They were on their way to Egypt,
where they?ve been living for five years. As soon as the rest of the
passengers saw them aboard, people simply refused to fly  perhaps, they
were fearful of a possible terrorist act,? noted the airline company?s
spokesman.

  In the course of the following two hours, airport and airline
spokespeople were trying to persuade the passengers to fly along with the
Egyptians. People however remained steadfast.

  All the passengers were then escorted back to the airport where each one
of them had to undergo additional security check. The two Egyptian women
have been examined publicly.

  There were 120 people aboard the Tu-154 airplane. As a result of this
little incident, the flight Moscow-Khurgada had eventually departed for
Egypt with a four-and-a-half-hour delay.

  Similar incident took place in Egypt on 1 September, 2004. Passengers
along with crew members of a Moscow-bound airplane (KrasAir) from Sharm el
Sheih refused to continue the flight after Egyptian personnel had allowed 2
Middle Eastern women to board the plane.

   According to the crew, both of the females behaved rather suspiciously:
they locked themselves up in the lavatory right after boarding. In the end,
due to the crew?s and the passenger?s protest, they were asked to leave the
plane.


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