Frontier Airlines has issued a statement after a video of UFC icon Khabib Nurmagomedov being removed from a recent flight went viral.
On Saturday, Nurmagomedov was scheduled to travel from Las Vegas to California where Saturday’s UFC pay-per-view event is scheduled to be held. However, his flight plans were held up after an airline attendant forced him off the plane. In response to reviews, Nurmagomedov was sitting in an emergency exit row and was repeatedly requested if he would give you the chance and prepared to help within the occasion of an emergency.
After a short verbal fracas, Nurmagomedov was faraway from the aircraft, however not earlier than one other passenger caught a few of the incident on video. The clip shortly went viral, prompting combat followers on social media to lambaste the airline.
Nurmagomedov has since spoken out in regards to the incident, suggesting that his elimination from the flight may have been related to his race or nationality.
based on Frontier, Nurmagomedov was in ‘Non-Compliance with FAA necessities’
Frontier Airways launched an announcement to MMA Fighting, explaining their facet of the story and that deboarding the legendary light-weight was properly inside their authorized purview.
“On Jan. 11, 2025, as flight 4401 from Las Vegas to San Francisco was making ready for departure, a flight attendant initiated the customary briefing for exit row passengers. Buyer Khabib Nurmagomedov, who was seated in an exit row, was requested a number of instances if he was prepared and in a position to help within the occasion of an emergency. In response to the flight attendant, Mr. Nurmagomedov didn’t reply, regardless of repeated makes an attempt, which positioned him in non-compliance with FAA necessities…
“Because of the client’s preliminary unresponsiveness and repeated declinations of a seat change, he was requested to deplane per airline and FAA coverage. The choice to deplane the client was by no means associated to his ethnicity, and we now have refunded him and his touring companions for his or her flights.”
That rationalization wasn’t ok for the Council on American-Islamic Relations who demanded there be an investigation into the incident.
“We name on Frontier and the U.S. Division of Transportation to swiftly and transparently examine this incident to find out precisely what occurred on this flight and why athlete and Muslim advocate Khabib Nurmagomedov was handled this manner and whether or not spiritual or racial profiling performed a job in his remedy,” CAIR Nationwide Govt Director Nihad Awad mentioned in an announcement.
“Given how typically incidents of racial and non secular profiling happen on airways, particularly towards vacationers who’re noticeably Muslim, [Frontier Airlines] also needs to publicly launch the outcomes of its investigation and take applicable motion to handle any misconduct or errors by its employees.”
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