{"id":121816,"date":"2025-09-02T14:25:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T13:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=121816"},"modified":"2025-09-02T14:25:00","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T13:25:00","slug":"chaos-as-passenger-dragged-off-enugu-air-flight-in-viral-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/chaos-as-passenger-dragged-off-enugu-air-flight-in-viral-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Chaos as Passenger Dragged Off Enugu Air Flight in Viral Video\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">By Lizzy Chirkpi<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Enugu Air, the newly launched state-owned carrier, has been enmeshed in controversy after officials were caught on video forcefully ejecting a passenger from one of its flights on Monday.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The clip, now circulating on social media, shows the man being dragged off the aircraft as onlookers watch in shock. A voice is heard shouting, \u201cYes, yes, go down,\u201d while some passengers appeared to cheer his removal.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The passenger\u2019s identity and the cause of the altercation remain unknown. Neither the airline nor the man involved has made any public statement explaining the chaos that marred one of Enugu Air\u2019s first weeks of operation.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The incident adds to a growing list of high-profile clashes between passengers and domestic airlines. Just weeks ago, Comfort Emmanson made headlines for her heated exchange with Ibom Air crew on a Uyo\u2013Lagos flight, while Fuji legend King Wasiu Ayinde, popularly known as KWAM 1 or K1 De Ultimate, was embroiled in a dispute with ValueJet Airlines at Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Aviation watchers say the spate of incidents raises questions about how Nigerian airlines handle onboard disputes and the conduct of some passengers as well.<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Lizzy Chirkpi Enugu Air, the newly launched state-owned carrier, has been enmeshed in controversy after officials were caught on video forcefully ejecting a passenger from one of its flights&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":121817,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Chaos as Passenger Dragged Off Enugu Air Flight in Viral Video\u00a0 - Pointblank News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/chaos-as-passenger-dragged-off-enugu-air-flight-in-viral-video\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Chaos as Passenger Dragged Off Enugu Air Flight in Viral Video\u00a0 - Pointblank News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"By Lizzy Chirkpi Enugu Air, the newly launched state-owned carrier, has been enmeshed in controversy after officials were caught on video forcefully ejecting a passenger from one of its flights&hellip;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/chaos-as-passenger-dragged-off-enugu-air-flight-in-viral-video\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pointblank News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-09-02T13:25:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Enugu-Air.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"500\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"300\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Our Reporter\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Our Reporter\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/chaos-as-passenger-dragged-off-enugu-air-flight-in-viral-video\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/chaos-as-passenger-dragged-off-enugu-air-flight-in-viral-video\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Our Reporter\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#\/schema\/person\/ba61acbe7e8967bcf3f3ba603d9db23c\"},\"headline\":\"Chaos as Passenger Dragged Off Enugu Air Flight in Viral Video\u00a0\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-09-02T13:25:00+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/chaos-as-passenger-dragged-off-enugu-air-flight-in-viral-video\/\"},\"wordCount\":204,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/chaos-as-passenger-dragged-off-enugu-air-flight-in-viral-video\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Enugu-Air.png\",\"articleSection\":[\"News\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/chaos-as-passenger-dragged-off-enugu-air-flight-in-viral-video\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/chaos-as-passenger-dragged-off-enugu-air-flight-in-viral-video\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/chaos-as-passenger-dragged-off-enugu-air-flight-in-viral-video\/\",\"name\":\"Chaos as Passenger Dragged Off Enugu Air Flight in Viral Video\u00a0 - Pointblank News\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/chaos-as-passenger-dragged-off-enugu-air-flight-in-viral-video\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/chaos-as-passenger-dragged-off-enugu-air-flight-in-viral-video\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Enugu-Air.png\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-09-02T13:25:00+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#\/schema\/person\/ba61acbe7e8967bcf3f3ba603d9db23c\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/chaos-as-passenger-dragged-off-enugu-air-flight-in-viral-video\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/chaos-as-passenger-dragged-off-enugu-air-flight-in-viral-video\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/chaos-as-passenger-dragged-off-enugu-air-flight-in-viral-video\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Enugu-Air.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Enugu-Air.png\",\"width\":500,\"height\":300},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/chaos-as-passenger-dragged-off-enugu-air-flight-in-viral-video\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Chaos as Passenger Dragged Off Enugu Air Flight in Viral Video\u00a0\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/\",\"name\":\"Pointblank News\",\"description\":\"Just the news\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#\/schema\/person\/ba61acbe7e8967bcf3f3ba603d9db23c\",\"name\":\"Our Reporter\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/83b3820ef93d502ae3a617b2c881ca42?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/83b3820ef93d502ae3a617b2c881ca42?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Our Reporter\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/author\/admin\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Chaos as Passenger Dragged Off Enugu Air Flight in Viral Video\u00a0 - Pointblank News","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/chaos-as-passenger-dragged-off-enugu-air-flight-in-viral-video\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Chaos as Passenger Dragged Off Enugu Air Flight in Viral Video\u00a0 - Pointblank News","og_description":"By Lizzy Chirkpi Enugu Air, the newly launched state-owned carrier, has been enmeshed in controversy after officials were caught on video forcefully ejecting a passenger from one of its flights&hellip;","og_url":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/chaos-as-passenger-dragged-off-enugu-air-flight-in-viral-video\/","og_site_name":"Pointblank News","article_published_time":"2025-09-02T13:25:00+00:00","og_image":[{"width":500,"height":300,"url":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Enugu-Air.png","type":"image\/png"}],"author":"Our Reporter","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Our Reporter","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/chaos-as-passenger-dragged-off-enugu-air-flight-in-viral-video\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/chaos-as-passenger-dragged-off-enugu-air-flight-in-viral-video\/"},"author":{"name":"Our Reporter","@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#\/schema\/person\/ba61acbe7e8967bcf3f3ba603d9db23c"},"headline":"Chaos as Passenger Dragged Off Enugu Air Flight in Viral Video\u00a0","datePublished":"2025-09-02T13:25:00+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/chaos-as-passenger-dragged-off-enugu-air-flight-in-viral-video\/"},"wordCount":204,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/chaos-as-passenger-dragged-off-enugu-air-flight-in-viral-video\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Enugu-Air.png","articleSection":["News"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/chaos-as-passenger-dragged-off-enugu-air-flight-in-viral-video\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/chaos-as-passenger-dragged-off-enugu-air-flight-in-viral-video\/","url":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/chaos-as-passenger-dragged-off-enugu-air-flight-in-viral-video\/","name":"Chaos as Passenger Dragged Off Enugu Air Flight in Viral Video\u00a0 - Pointblank News","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/chaos-as-passenger-dragged-off-enugu-air-flight-in-viral-video\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/chaos-as-passenger-dragged-off-enugu-air-flight-in-viral-video\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Enugu-Air.png","datePublished":"2025-09-02T13:25:00+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#\/schema\/person\/ba61acbe7e8967bcf3f3ba603d9db23c"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/chaos-as-passenger-dragged-off-enugu-air-flight-in-viral-video\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/chaos-as-passenger-dragged-off-enugu-air-flight-in-viral-video\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/chaos-as-passenger-dragged-off-enugu-air-flight-in-viral-video\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Enugu-Air.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Enugu-Air.png","width":500,"height":300},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/chaos-as-passenger-dragged-off-enugu-air-flight-in-viral-video\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Chaos as Passenger Dragged Off Enugu Air Flight in Viral Video\u00a0"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#website","url":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/","name":"Pointblank News","description":"Just the news","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#\/schema\/person\/ba61acbe7e8967bcf3f3ba603d9db23c","name":"Our Reporter","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/83b3820ef93d502ae3a617b2c881ca42?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/83b3820ef93d502ae3a617b2c881ca42?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Our Reporter"},"url":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/author\/admin\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121816"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121819,"href":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121816\/revisions\/121819"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}