Toronto-bound Porter Airlines threatens passengers to face arrest for recording, apologises

Massachusetts/Toronto, Jan 9 (IBNS): A Toronto-bound Porter Airlines has threatened its passengers to face consequences if they do not agree to delete recording of confrontation inside the terminal, Global News reported.

The passengers were sitting at Boston Logan International Airport for two hours and then they had returned to the terminal building due to malfunction in the plane.

The flight was cancelled by then.

Kira Wegler, a Toronto resident who was in the plane, told Global News: " There was a problem with the latch door to the luggage compartment and when it passed 10 o’clock apparently the crew couldn’t fly anymore because … in their words, they would turn into pumpkins."

"As you are waiting in this line, you had no information from the front of the line" another passenger told the media.

Some of the embittered passengers took their phones of their pockets to start recording the information from Porter airlines.

It is at that point some of the personnel restricted the passengers to record the same.

Wegler recounted: " At that point, the personnel came from behind the desk and started threatening us to call the police if we don’t delete the videos off of our phones and show evidence that it’s gone from our trash bin."

While many passengers deleted their videos out of fear of facing consequences, Wegler refused to budge down. Wegler later handed over the video to Global News.

Reacting to the incident, Massachusetts Port Authority's media relations manager, Kelly Smith, said: " No, there is no law or policy that prohibits filming inside Logan Airport, except in secure areas and of security procedures."

Apologising for the entire incident, Porter Airlines' spokesperson Brad Cicero told Global News: " In this particular case, there was a misunderstanding by the team member involved that taking video at this particular airport beyond the security checkpoint was not permitted."

(Reporting by Suman Das)