A Delta flight attendant has been filmed throwing eight passengers off a flight for giving her ‘attitude’ when she asked one of them to turn their phones to airplane mode.
The unnamed attendant was filmed as she reprimanded passenger Robyn Rogers, a female DJ from New York, before take off on June 23 at Fort Wayne airport in Indiana.
According to Rogers, the flight attendant stood over her ‘menacingly’ after asking her to put her phone onto the right setting.
She claims she tried to show her that she had with her phone but that the flight attendant carried on arguing with her.
That is when another passenger began filming from the row behind them.
In their video, which Rogers posted on Instagram, the flight attendant can be heard saying: ‘I know what I heard. I am not going to argue with you.
Delta passenger Robyn Rogers (left) was thrown off the flight at Fort Wayne airport in Indiana on June 23 by a flight attendant who accused her of not turning her phone to airplane mode when she asked her to
‘There’s no need for arguing. Crew instructions means crew instructions.’
As Rogers argued that she did switch it to the right setting, the flight attendant said: ‘Now you have. Is it in airplane mode?’
Ryan Miller, another passenger then chimed in: ‘I was right next to her,’ in an attempt to defend Rogers.
The flight attendant hit back at him: ‘Would you like to stay too?’
She then made reference to everybody’s ‘attitude’ and said she had ‘zero tolerance’ for it.
The flight attendant then carried on arguing with other passengers who stepped in to try to defend the woman
Despite the woman turning her phone to airplane mode and other passengers standing up for her, the plane was forced to disembark by police officers
This woman wept in the gate as she was told she would not be allowed back onto the plane. She was one of the other passengers who stood up for Rogers and asked why they could not take off
The man replied: ‘We’re just trying to go.’ The video cut out but in the next post uploaded to her Instagram, Rogers and others had been forced off the plane.
The group included a ‘Latina’ woman who cried when she was told she could not get another flight to her home state of Texas that night and the
A man with a child was also told he could not get back on to the plane.
Rogers took this selfie on the plane before she was ‘unfairly ejected’
In her post, Rogers said she felt the incident was racially charged.
‘I want to acknowledge because I am painfully aware of the serious and profoundly heartbreaking injustices/events happening in our world and communities,I have grappled with sharing my experience.
‘It seems small in the face of those things. But the micro is important and little things that go unchecked spiral,’ she said.
Delta did not immediately respond to DailyMail.com’s inquiries on Thursday afternoon.
A spokesman told the Detroit Free Press that the flight was a connecting flight being operated by SkyWest Airlines.
SkyWest said that it was reviewing passengers’ footage of the incident and was investigating.
Robyn Rogers was told to put her phone on airplane mode on the June 23 flight from Fort Wayne, Indiana