Calgary police escort unruly passengers identified as Russian hockey team members off international flight

Kick them out and then ban them from flying.

Is this you, OP?

Trash

russians are hoodlums and trash

Really, R2? You find their behaviour acceptable? I find it disgusting.

[quote] Kathleen Scherf was seated in business class, near who she said she believed to be two Russian coaches.

[quote] “They were very difficult for the flight attendants to handle,” she told Global News.

[quote] “They wouldn’t stay in their seat. They wouldn’t keep the mask on. One of them was vaping… They both had loud music coming out of their iPhones — like not head phones, but playing — and they kept getting up to hug each other.”

[quote] Scherf said the flight had been sitting on the tarmac, delayed for over an hour and a half, when police swarmed the plane and all the passengers were asked to get off.

[quote] “I’ve never been in a situation where there was a security de-planing. So it was quite interesting and just really shocking that these young people held up hundreds of passengers… I didn’t have a connecting flight but others did, which they missed. There were tons of kids on the flight, scores of crew would have been affected by this just because they were being testosterone-filled young men.”

Fuck these assholes. I don't give a shit about hockey, but I hope the team is barred from flying and from the next World Juniors.

[quote] Russians being assholes again.

As opposed to Californians

So, R6? That's one person. This incident involved multiple team members.

I'm commenting on your need to armchair rage on DL about such incivilities.

An American would never do something like this!

Russians are foul thieves

OP is an ethnocentric and xenophobic curmudgeon who is trying to drum up anti-Russian prejudice by whichever infantile means he can. OP is probably also a CIA bot trying to get as many people as possible to be happy with the idea of a new Cold War and potentially, a 3rd World War against China and Russia.

OP, please go fuck yourself. People are not that easy to manipulate.

Oh, and by the way: before you start resorting to stupid name-calling in order to invalidate my arguments, allow me to beat you to the punch. I type fat, poor, femme, ugly and old. I am also an incel, a frau, a trannie and my name is Boris or Ling Ling. Happy now? Good.

Lmao, R11. Why don't you want this story posted here? It happened, it made the news, so what's your problem? The article is from a major news organization in Canada and the story was trending on Twitter. How on earth do you figure I'm trying to "manipulate" people by posting it here? Seriously, I'd like to know.

R11 was banned years ago

Many people from the ex-Soviet countries -- and immigrants from that region -- are major anti-vaxxers.

R11 is pushing Ivermectin in other threads.

With r11, the diseased trash contingency has arrived.

I want to be gangbanged by the whole Russian hockey team.

Russians are even more thin-skinned than Americans, if that was even possible.

A group of rude Russians? In other breaking news...Water is wet!

When the Russians started moving to West Hollywood, they were so ill-mannered and rude, a coalition was formed to deal with the problem. “English language” classes for Russians started being taught in the area that were mainly designed to teach them manners.

Pity these boys weren't on the flight.

those guys are gross

This must be the type of manhood that Mr. Candace Cameron was referring to in his "the U.S. is too soft and full of homosexuals" tirade.

Probably, R23.

I'm no hockey fan but a few years ago I was in a restaurant where some members of the Canadian junior team were also dining. They were on their best behaviour, all in suits, very respectful to the serving staff and overall polite. I remember that they got a little boisterous at one point but not for long and nothing obnoxious. I

I know they weren't Americans, but the overall culture of the US and Canada if fairly similar so I'm sure Bure would make the same claim about Canada being too soft etc...well, at least our boys can behave like proper young men when out in public in a group.

Trash. I hate when people play music from their phone without headphones - *hate* - so I would have lost it, especially sitting right next to them. I'm glad security handled it ASAP.

[quote]they kept getting up to hug each other.

Pics please!

[quote]OP is probably also a CIA bot

We have the craziest people posting on here, I swear.

From the R28 article

CALGARY - A New Year’s Eve disturbance on an Air Canada plane which some passengers have said was related to bad behavior by Russia’s world junior hockey team does not appear to have resulted in any charges, but the International Ice Hockey Federation says it could still take action.

“The IIHF is gathering further information on this incident from the relevant authorities and will refer the incident to the IIHF Ethics Board to determine if the Russian National Team’s actions violated the IIHF Ethics Code,” the federation stated in an email.

“Upon the IIHF Ethics Board decision, the incident will be referred to the IIHF Disciplinary Board for sanctioning.”

Calgary police said in a news release over the weekend that officers responded to reports of a disturbance involving multiple passengers on an Air Canada aircraft at the city’s airport, and that officers helped airline staff “keep the peace” while the passengers were deplaned.

Several passengers reported that the Frankfurt-bound flight was delayed about three hours after Russian players and team officials refused to follow COVID-19 rules and wear their masks properly. Passengers also claimed some in the group smoked and wouldn’t listen to flight attendants.

A spokeswoman for the city’s police says there were no arrests or charges that she was aware of, and that officers only boarded the plane during the New Year’s Eve incident to ensure the safety of passengers as they were removed.

The police spokeswoman says the Canada Border Services Agency handles investigations into safety violations aboard planes, but the agency said in an email on Saturday that there was no ongoing investigation related to the matter.

The Russian team members were heading home from the IIHF world junior championships in Red Deer and Edmonton, which were cancelled last week due to COVID-19 outbreaks on several teams.

Media in Russia has quoted the team’s coach, Sergei Zubov, saying both the Czech Republic and Russian teams were removed from the flight for violating the mask regime.

Russian sports news outlet Match TV has quoted Zubov saying that after being removed from the aircraft, the Russian team was later allowed to board other planes to Montreal and Toronto, continuing on to Frankfurt and then home to Moscow.

Zubov told Match TV there was no cigarette smoke on board, noting he quit smoking three years ago. He said that Canadian enforcement of mask rules is strict, and suggested that some on his team weren’t wearing them properly could have been due to their joy of returning home.

Eoin Kenny, a passenger on the flight who was in business class, said one Russian official who was seated near him was vaping in the cabin and refused to put his mask up over his mouth and nose. The flight attendants tried over and over to get him to comply with the rules, Kenny said, but the man refused.

The man also blared Russian rock music on his phone and refused to turn it down when staff asked, Kenny added.

Zubov suggested to Match TV the story was being exaggerated, possibly because there is a shortage of hockey to report on.

Kenny said he didn’t believe the Russian players had been drinking, although they were loud in the departure lounge. He said he believed the Czechs, who were quiet in the lounge, may have been confused with the Russians since they were wearing similar grey sweatsuits.

It’s not the first time Russia’s junior team has had difficulty at an airport.

In 2011 when the team showed up for their flight home after their gold-medal win at the world junior hockey championships in Buffalo, N.Y. in 2011, Delta Air Lines asked them to leave for being unruly.

A bus driver who’d brought them to the airport told The Buffalo News at the time that some of the team where so drunk that they had to be carried onto the bus.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published Jan. 3, 2022.

Drunk, self-aggrandizing, manipulative, self-pitying Russian males with no prospects.

Go find a stupid Xtian gal like Candace Cameron, dick her around, and sit back and laugh. Over and over, again.