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Dizzee Rascal removed from flight after alleged air rage
By CMU Editorial | Published on Tuesday 12 July 2011
Dizzee Rascal is facing a lifetime ban from British Airways flights, according to tabloid reports, after he was seemingly removed from one of the company’s planes this weekend after clashing with BA staff over delays.
That said, there seems to be differing accounts as to exactly what happened. One eyewitness told the Mail On Sunday: “Dizzee was getting very angry [because] it was taking so long to take off. Then he threw a tantrum with staff, and passengers were told something was wrong. After the incident his band members were still on the flight. They started kicking off too, shouting that they couldn’t play without him because he’d been thrown off”.
But another eyewitness told the Evening Standard that Dizzee’s interaction with BA staff was more sleepy and confused than diva-ish: “We had been on the plane for about an hour, Dizzee had been asleep, and he woke up and there was a female member of cabin crew walking past and he said to her something along the lines of: ‘What’s going on? What are we still doing here? What’s happening?'”
Either way, the rapper was seemingly removed from the delayed BA flight to Portugal, resulting in him missing his slot at the Optimus Alive! festival near Lisbon.
