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Khabib Nurmagomedov was taken off a flight over the weekend following a seating disagreement with the airline’s workers.
The incident, which occurred on a flight leaving Las Vegas’ McCarran Worldwide Airport on Saturday, was captured on video and posted to social media. Within the video, you hear a flight attendant asking Nurmagomedov, who’s sitting within the emergency exit row, if he was ready and capable of help different passengers within the occasion of an emergency.
The flight attendant says, “We can not mean you can sit within the exit row … I’m not going to do that forwards and backwards. I’ll go name a supervisor. You possibly can both take a special seat or we will go forward and escort you off the aircraft.”
Nurmagomedov seems visibly pissed off by the state of affairs and responds, “It’s not truthful” whereas sustaining he absolutely complied with the flight crew throughout the verify in course of. He tells the flight attendant, “Once I was in check-in, they requested me do I do know English… and I say sure. Then why you guys do that?”
Regardless of the UFC legend’s pushback, a supervisor was introduced onto the aircraft and allegedly gave Nurmagomedov the choice to change seats or to take one other flight. When no decision was reached, Nurmagomedov was faraway from the aircraft.
We have reached out to Nurmagomedov and Alaska Airways … to date, no phrase again.