Oregon Woman Mysteriously Removed From American Airlines Flight

Mother of two removed from Phoenix to Portland flight as passengers boo flight staff.

Gresham woman Tiana Fough was removed from American Airlines Flight 408 from Phoenix, AZ to Portland in tears as passengers booed and complained to flight staff, according to KATU.

Fough told KATU that as she was waiting for her seat she made small talk with another passenger when a flight attendant began to yell at her, "Stay right there. I told you three times." Fough went on to say: "He did not have my eye contact. He didn't have my attention. I didn't even hear him until he started yelling at me."

Fough said that the attendant threatened to have her removed from the flight. After she took her seat and complained to another flight attendant about her exchange, Fough said that the attendant who shouted at her arrived at her seat and told her "Where's your stuff? You're getting off of this plane right now."

Fough told KATU, "At that point I just got off. I got into the tunnel where you walk through to get to the plane… he pops his head out and he comes out of the plane looks down the hallway snickering at me… taunting me. I was already the lowest I could be."

American Airlines is aware of the incident and is now investigating Fough's removal from the plane.

Passenger Bill Byrne filmed Fough being removed from the airplane in tears as other passengers jeer and boo the flight staff.

UPDATE: The website "Rants of a Sassy Stew" has an alternate description of the events that caused Tiana Fough to be removed from the plane, allegedly "the REAL STORY from witnesses who were onboard the plane at the time," saying that Fough called a flight attendant a homophobic slur.

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