Three black men have sued an American Airline for ordering them out of the aircraft after a white crew member accused them of having body odour.
According to an American television, NBCDFW, eight black men, who did not know each other, boarded Flight 832 at Phoenix Airport to New York JFX in January.
The passengers, who were all seated in the plane, were picked from their different positions and sent out after a white male flight attendant made a complaint about “offensive body odour.”
The report further revealed that after an hour of fruitlessly searching for an alternative flight to fly them to their destination, the black men were embarrassingly asked to retake their seats on the aircraft.
The lawsuit claims: “They had to re-board the plane and endure the stares of the largely white passengers who viewed them as the cause of the substantial delay.
“They suffered during the entire flight home, and the entire incident was traumatic, upsetting, scary, humiliating, and degrading.”
One of the black men, Emmanuel Jean Joseph, told newsmen that he “knew that as soon as I got on that plane, a sea of white faces were going to be looking at me and blaming me for their late flight of an hour.”
