Professor kicked off New York-bound flight after trying to 'self-upgrade' his seat

Hound · Dec 9, 2015

Professor kicked off New York-bound flight after trying to 'self-upgrade' his seat

PUBLISHED : Tuesday, 08 December, 2015, 4:31pm
UPDATED : Tuesday, 08 December, 2015, 4:31pm

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Shanghai airport police try to escort Lu Yong off a United Airlines flight on Sunday. Photo: SCMP Pictures

A professor at Pennsylvania State University was detained after the police escorted him off an international flight when he tried to sneak into a better class of seat, state media has reported.

Lu Yong was aboard United Airlines Flight 87 waiting to depart to New York on Sunday afternoon when he tried to “self-upgrade”, according to CCTV.

When flight attendants discovered he was in the wrong seat, they asked him to move but he refused.

Lu Yong, who teaches at Penn State University, refuses to leave the plane. Three officers sustained minor injuries escorting him off. Photo: SCMP Pictures

The captain was alerted and decided to eject Lu from the plane. The airport police arrived to escort him off but he still refused to budge. It took three officers to pry a screaming and kicking Lu out of his seat, and they sustained minor injuries in the process.

He was detained and charged with disrupting public service, which can result in a maximum of three years in jail.

Lu is an associate professor of information sciences and technology at Penn State University. He also held a position at Southwestern University of Finance and Economics in Sichuan province, but it announced on Tuesday he had been fired.

johnny333 · Dec 9, 2015

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Hound said:
....Lu is an associate professor of information sciences and technology at Penn State University. He also held a position at Southwestern University of Finance and Economics in Sichuan province, but it announced on Tuesday he had been fired.

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Was he fired because of the incident or did he loose his job before the incident & therefore didn't have the $ to pay for an upgrade :confused:

Leongsam · Dec 9, 2015

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Guess the race????

ChineseDog · Dec 9, 2015

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Leongsam said:
Guess the race????

hooray i finally got one correct after so many guess the race threads! I always choose chink in all the guess the race threads and doesn't matter when i get most of them wrong.

I am sure you chose chink too right my honorary chinese dog.

tonychat · Dec 9, 2015

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I thought going for higher class seat, you can pay for it.. Isn't that much easier?

Hound · Dec 9, 2015

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Yong Lu ?Eric Lu?Penn State Uni Assistant Professor Disturbing flight UA087 Shanghai to NYC

ynk2252 · Dec 9, 2015

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Penn State is renowned for producing wrestlers so this Professor may have got some tips on wrestling and it took 3 officers to tackle him.

Reddog · Dec 9, 2015

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Leongsam said:
Guess the race????

Burmese..............

Jah_rastafar_I · Dec 9, 2015

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ynk2252 said:
Penn State is renowned for producing wrestlers so this Professor may have got some tips on wrestling and it took 3 officers to tackle him.

Also child rapists and molestors.

syed putra · Dec 9, 2015

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US airlines should seriously consider not allowing chinese on board their flights. it downgrades their brand.

Papsmearer · Dec 9, 2015

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I have seen this happened before. Once I was on a flight from PKG to SIN and traveling in first class. When we took off, there were some empty seats behind me. Once in the air, the seats became occupied by economy class PRC assholes. The FA bo chap them. They did not get served food or anything. She just let them sit there. But in the US airlines, the sense of fairness is very high. The FA will for sure fuck u over if you tried to sneak in. Typical PRC shit behaviour.

Jah_rastafar_I · Dec 9, 2015

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syed putra said:
US airlines should seriously consider not allowing chinese on board their flights. it downgrades their brand.

No La shit skin its your kind

Narong Wongwan · Dec 9, 2015

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You just can't take the China out of the chink

Hound · Dec 9, 2015

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Offloaded flight passenger sacked by Chinese university

Shanghai Daily, December 8, 2015

A Chinese passenger on an international-bound flight was arrested for creating a scene and assaulting police officers at Shanghai Pudong International Airport on Sunday afternoon.

The unruly Chinese passenger, who was forcibly evicted from a United Airlines flight bound for New York at the Shanghai Pudong International Airport on Sunday, has been fired from his job.

The passenger, Lu Yong, was a guest professor at the Southwestern University of Finance and Economics in Chengdu, Sichuan Province.

The university issued a statement on its Weibo account today and confirmed he was teaching at the university as a guest professor since August. Lu was also the director of Internet Finance Research Center at the university.

Lu is also an associate professor at the Pennsylvania State University in the United States.

Southwestern University said it values virtues and ethical conduct of its teachers and does not tolerate unlawful behavior.

It therefore chose to terminate its relationship with Lu.

On Sunday, after boarding Flight UA087 for New York, Lu insisted on a seat upgrade and then went and occupied a seat assigned to another passenger. As Lu refused to go back to his seat or leave the aircraft, the captain notified the airport police.

Three police officers then tried to reason with him and then forcibly removed him from the aircraft. Some of the officers were reportedly hurt.

Pictures and videos of the incident went viral on the Internet.

Lu has been detained and faces charges of assaulting police officers and deliberately obstructing public activity.

THE_CHANSTER · Dec 9, 2015

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Thankfully, this kind of behaviour is not tolerated on many European or North American carriers and that we have headcount checks in each cabin before take off.

Why must the PRCs always try to cheat or pull a fast one? What is wrong with their mentality? This chap is clearly educated and probably had the funds for an upgrade. I'll never understand the 'Chinaman' psyche.

Cremo · Dec 10, 2015

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Leongsam · Dec 10, 2015

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The Chinese are worse than animals. No wonder they are hated the world over.

johnny333 · Dec 10, 2015

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I was on a no frills Jetstar flight from BKK to Spore & a chinese passenger tried to switch to a more expensive seat with more legroom, without paying the extra $10. :biggrin:

However the air crew told him to get back to his cheap seat & fortunately there was no scene made :smile:

Hound · Dec 10, 2015

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johnny333 said:
I was on a no frills Jetstar flight from BKK to Spore & a chinese passenger tried to switch to a more expensive seat with more legroom, without paying the extra $10.

However the air crew told him to get back to his cheap seat & fortunately there was no scene made

You should have tried blackmailing him for $5 :biggrin:

halsey02 · Dec 10, 2015

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Leongsam said:
The Chinese are worse than animals. No wonder they are hated the world over.

Not all Chinese, we have the 华桥, all the Chinese here are known as & elsewhere in the world; but I agree with you with the "worse than animals". I have to repeat this again....traveled once with a planeload of Chinese ( from PRC), from Bangkok to Singapore, they were a tour group, the behaved worse than animals, clambering all over the seats & making a ruckus...it was an Air Asia flight..should have flown them in the cargo hold.

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