Two women on a British Airways flight at Heathrow fought over a MAGA (make America Great Again) hat forcing the authorities to remove both of them from the Texas-bound flight. The incident took place on Saturday as the women, aged 40 and 60 engaged in an altercation over the hat, reports said.
One of the women took offence over the MAGA hat that the other woman had and asked her to remove it. A MAGA hat is a red hat, a merchandise from the Donald Trump campaign, with the text Make America Great Again.
The Trump supporter who had the cap refused to take it off.
Both the women were in the premium economy class and punches were allegedly exchanged between them over the Trump hat. The captain called for assistance and police came to escort the women off the aircraft.
A spokesperson said: “Shortly after 12.45pm on Monday, 28 October, police at Heathrow were made aware of an incident involving two women waiting to board a plane in Terminal 5.
“A woman in her 40s and a woman in her 60s made counter allegations of affray. Enquiries are ongoing.”
British Airways said in a statement: “We apologized to our customers for the delay and got them on the way as quickly as possible.”
A Heathrow source told the Sun: “With the US presidential election so close, tensions are sky high. Airline crew could not run the risk of a full scale punch-up at 30,000ft.” “BA officials cannot recall a flight being delayed before due to a passenger’s baseball cap. It was extraordinary.”
