American Airlines domestic flight lands in Bahamas: ‘Y’all are illegal immigrants here’

Passengers of an American Airways flight had been referred to as immigrants as they had been stranded within the Bahamas for twenty-four hours owing to “excruciating circumstances”. The flight from San Juan, Puerto Rico to Miami, Florida — carrying round 90 passengers — was detoured to the Bahamas due to Hurricane Debby and there was no lodging for the passengers.Dimas Henriquez, as passenger of flight 2421, instructed Fox Information Digital that they had been referred to as unlawful immigrants on the island nation although they had been nothing to do with the emergency.
“They made a degree to say that, like, ‘y’all are unlawful immigrants right here proper now, y’all do not have a lot say in something.’ Although we did not select to be there,” Dimas Henriquez, passenger of American Airways flight 2421, instructed Fox Information Digital. “We had been actually locked in… It was not attainable to depart,” he continued. “I used to be awake your entire time, however folks had been on the ground coated in corners and stuff, like very unfold out. It appeared like we had been tenting indoors.”

Movies taken by the passengers on the Bahamas went viral on TikTok as they discovered it unbelievable that they needed to spend the night time overseas. A TikToker in his video stated the pilot introduced that they wanted to land within the Bahamas, a distinct nation. The pilot even requested who’ve their passports.
‘We land the airplane, we’re sitting on the tarmac for 2 hours, we obtained off the airplane, seems the pilot cannot do time beyond regulation or one thing so we needed to get off the airplane,’ the TikToker with the deal with @griptape_dimas stated.
‘We obtained off right here, we will not depart the terminal cos we’re not allowed to be right here, we’re illegally right here and never solely cannot we depart the airport, we will not depart the terminal, we will not do something.’