I feel like there's more backstory to this. You can't just pand a plane, you have to get permission from the tower and be assigned a runway and gate. It's a process that involved multiple people.
Ya they just have to tell the pilot, then the pilot calls it in. Which means the pilot okay'd this too. And all they have to do is say someone is a potential disruption in the air or they can make up anything on you. Flight attendants actually have a lot of power in that way. But maybe they were shouting Trump 2020 on the plane and the flight attendant told them not to shout and they argued free speech and thats where it came from. Or maybe they were literally talking calmly and quietly amonst themselves and this still happened.
Thus is my industry. If you exercise emergency authority, as a pilot, every airport is legally mandated to accept you. The circumstances are worked out in paperwork, after.
I feel like there's more backstory to this. You can't just pand a plane, you have to get permission from the tower and be assigned a runway and gate. It's a process that involved multiple people.
Ya they just have to tell the pilot, then the pilot calls it in. Which means the pilot okay'd this too. And all they have to do is say someone is a potential disruption in the air or they can make up anything on you. Flight attendants actually have a lot of power in that way. But maybe they were shouting Trump 2020 on the plane and the flight attendant told them not to shout and they argued free speech and thats where it came from. Or maybe they were literally talking calmly and quietly amonst themselves and this still happened.
Yeah, either is believable. More info needed.
Thus is my industry. If you exercise emergency authority, as a pilot, every airport is legally mandated to accept you. The circumstances are worked out in paperwork, after.
What they emergency landed for this?? I thought it was just a layover or a failed takeoff. Holy shit. Wow.