Woman On Charlotte Flight Refuses To Wear Mask Properly, Calls It 'Tyranny'

A passenger was escorted off a plane after refusing to properly wear a face mask on a flight from Charlotte to Washington, D.C. The unnamed woman was caught on video yelling at fellow passengers and crew on the American Airlines flight on Sunday (January 10).

According to WCNC, other passengers near the woman were concerned by the improper way she was wearing her mask, below her nose. When flight attendants asked her to fix it, she refused. Another passenger on the plane said he was awoken by the woman "screaming about how this was tyranny" when she was asked to properly wear her mask.

In a video posted on Twitter, the woman can be heard yelling, "If we don't stand up, it's only going to get worse," followed by another passenger saying, "Get her off."

The woman eventually calmed down when a Federal Air Marshal stepped in to deescalate the situation.

When the flight landed, the woman was escorted oft the plane by Metropolitan Washington Airport Authority Police and placed on the airline's "no-fly list," according to WCNC.

"I wish I could say this is the only video we've seen over the past week or so but we have too many to count," said Paul Hartshorn Jr., a spokesperson for the Association of Professional Flight Attendants.

Hartshorn said that non-mask compliance has increased over the last six months, with most people removing their facial coverings after take-off. He hopes that airlines will "take a strong stance" against the behavior exhibited by the woman on Sunday's flight as well as others like her.

"Anyone exhibiting threatening, abusive behavior should be added to a no-fly list and we are currently in discussions with other labor unions and lawmakers in D.C. as to what that would look like but make no mistake the action needs to be swift," said Hartshorn.

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