Airline condemned as passenger’s racist tirade is shown online

RYANAIR HAS sparked outrage after apparently failing to remove a passenger from a plane after he launched a racist tirade against the woman in the seat next to him.

The man was filmed by a fellow passenger calling the elderly woman an “ugly black b ***** d”, and shouting “don’t talk to me in a foreign language you stupid ugly cow”. The footage was recorded on October 19 on Ryanair flight FR015 from Barcelona to London Stansted by Kent resident David Lawrence who uploaded it on to social media.

It shows the man shouting at the woman to move seats while her daughter tries to stand up to him, telling him her mother is disabled.

He replies: “I don’t care whether she’s f ****** disabled or not – if I tell her to get out she gets out.”

Staff on the flight seemed to do little to silence the man (pictured, inset) during the footage, leaving a passenger in the row behind to try and deal with the situation.

The cabin crew can be heard to say: “Don’t be so rude, you have to calm down” while other passengers call for the man to be thrown off the flight.

News of the incident was retweeted 18,000 times after a user with the handle @StanceGrounded uploaded Mr Laurence’s clip, prompting widespread condemnation of Ryanair for failing to act swiftly. A number of politicians voiced their concern at Ryanair’s apparent lack of action. Labour MP for East Hull and Shadow Attorney General Karl Turner, inset, tweeted: “He should have been removed from the flight and handed over to the police. We assume the aircraft was in the UK. If it was he definitely committed criminal offences. I fully expect @Ryanair to confirm the situation if in fact it was their flight.”

The budget airline tweeted that it had seen the footage and reported the incident to police. It added: “As this is now a police matter, we cannot comment further.”

A spokeswoman for Essex police said it was working closely with Ryanair and the Spanish authorities.