An American woman was dragged off a Korean Air flight

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Korean Air Boeing 777.

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• An American woman was dragged off a Korean
  Air flight bound for San Francisco after she refused to
  leave a business class seat even though she’d originally booked
  an economy seat.
• The incident was captured on a cell-phone video posted
  to YouTube.
• It took six Korean Air flight attendants to restrain
  the woman, who chanted, “U.S. Marshalls” and “Nuclear
  disarmament.”
• In a statement
  given to AllKPop.com, airline police said, “The woman was
  transferred to the hospital first as she seemed to be suffering
  from a mental illness. We plan to investigate her as soon as
  the hospital completes her examination.”

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An American woman was dragged off a Korean Air flight at Incheon
Airport outside of Seoul, South Korea last week after she
commandeered a business class seat and proceed to go on an
incoherent rant.

According to a report by the
San Francisco Chronicle, the incident on board Korean
Air Flight 25 took place on July 27 which caused the flight to
San Francisco to be delayed an hour and 44
minutes.

“The woman, who originally booked an economy seat, sat down
in the business class seating instead,” Korean website

AllKPop.com reported. “The woman refused to move and
caused a disturbance when the flight attendant told her, ‘You
have to sit in your designated seat,'” 

Korean Air was not immediately available for
comment. 

However, the airline
told Newsweek that the woman ignored multiple requests to
leave the business class seat and then became violent once
airline staff started to remove her, adding that she ignored
police officer’s requests as well once they boarded the
plane. 

The incident was captured in a cell-phone video that was posted
on the Korea JoonAng Daily
YouTube page. It opens with a collection of Korean Air flight
attendants surrounding the woman in her seat. The six flight
attendant’s faces are pixelated so one cannot see their facial
expressions. 

In the video, the woman can be heard screaming, “U.S. Marshals!”
as the flight attendants approach her. 

The woman appears to place her passport in her mouth while the
flight attendants are unbuckling her from her seat and pulling
her up on her feet. A smattering of claps can be heard from other
passengers as the woman is pushed by flight attendants down the
aisle and off the plane. 

She then abruptly collapses to the ground and begins yelling,
“Korean Air stole my passport!” as she is pulled down the aisle,
amid multiple cries and yells. 

Once the flight attendants load her onto a restraining
wheelchair, the woman looks up at the person filming the incident
and chants, “DDoS Korean Air! DDos Korean Air? Nuclear
disarmament!” 

(DDoS stands for distributed denial of service. It’s a cyber
attack that can shut down a website or server by overwhelming it
with traffic.)

Then she looks directly into the camera and says, “Meanwhile at
SpaceX,” as she is lifted in her wheelchair and brought off the
plane as she shouts, “I love you!”  

In a statement
given to AllKPop.com, airline police said, “The woman was
transferred to the hospital first as she seemed to be suffering
from a mental illness. We plan to investigate her as soon as the
hospital completes her examination.”

Here’s the incident captured on video: