Originally Posted by
KelvinD
It is OK folks; that great travel guru, Simon Calder has resolved it all. He has told us the Captain issued the order for this bloke to be removed and therefore the passenger was breaking the law by refusing to comply.
Even more reason to ignore Mr Calder!
Agreed - but whether he was breaking the law or not (and UA are probably within their rights to ask anyone they want to leave one of their planes) it is the manner in which they did it which has generated a quadzillion clicks