United Airlines Faces Twitter Blast After Asian Passenger Forcibly Deboarded

On Tuesday, a video went viral on Twitter showing a man being violently dragged off a United Airlines plane. The incident took place after the plane was overbooked because of an additional flight crew that had to fly to Louisville.

Twitter erupted at the Airline’s misconduct with the paying passenger as the video posted by the fellow fliers showed the man being bloodied on his physical tussle with the staff.

Users condemned the act in various creative ways using the hashtag #united.

@Reflog_18 tweeted an image displaying a special ‘Fight Club’ section in the United Airplane

Another tweet mentioned that you might end up in a hospital if you fly with United AIrlines.

People across the world are terming the incident as a racial act since the man dragged off the plane was an Asian.

Twitteratis also posted an ‘Air Force One’ meme on the incident while another showed photo of "The Walking Dead" slugger Negan with his barbed baseball bat walking through the cabin. The tweet read:

Watch the full video:

Footage posted on social media shows a man being forcibly removed from an overbooked flight, to the shock of other passengers pic.twitter.com/SQAbD3tDFT— The Telegraph (@Telegraph) April 10, 2017