It has been reported that three black men had sued American Airlines, saying that they were asked to disembark from the aircraft after a crew member accused them of having body odour, hereby felt embarrassed by that action.

According to American television NBCDFW, the eight black men, who did not know one another, boarded Flight 832 at Phoenix Airport to New York JFX in January, 2024.

They were all seated in the plane and were picked up from their different positions, after which they were ordered out following a complaint by the white male flight attendant about their “offensive body odour.” The report stated further that after an hour of searching for an alternative flight to their destination, the black men were 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 identified as 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,” he remarked.

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