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Old 28th Nov 2008, 13:36
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The passenger who wants to get off can use reasonable force to prevent what he believes to be his unlawful detention, but he needs to remember that if he gets it wrong and the detention is later found by a court to have been lawful he is also in big trouble, probably more so as he would probably find himself in a criminal court for failing to obey a lawful instruction of the crew.
NO!!! Very dangerous, very wrong counsel.

A crew which does not take orders from a passenger and allow the passenger to do as he pleases...is not illegally detaining the passenger. The passenger most decidedly does NOT have the option to use force to get his way.

Doing so makes the passenger guilty of interference with a crewmember.

Using force to get off the airplane is going to see you being treated as more than simply an unruly passenger. Likely you're going to do prison time, you'll be facing some very serious charges, and failing to obey a lawful instruction by the crew will be the least of your concerns.
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