Airline Passengers Stranded in Boston Told to Delete Videos From Phones or Face Getting Arrested
Passengers made to sit on the tarmac at Boston Logan International Airport for around two hours say they were forced to delete videos of the incident from their phones by an airline staff member, who also threatened to have them arrested if they didn't comply.
After would-be passengers of the Toronto-bound Porter Airlines flight learned that their trip would be canceled due to a mechanical malfunction on the aircraft, they were ordered to leave the plane and wait in the terminal building.
“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,” Kira Wegler, a Toronto resident returning home from a Florida vacation with her family, told Canadian television network Global News.
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Things became heated however, when frustrated passengers began to pull out their phones and video record Porter staff delivering information.
“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,” said Wegler.
She said passengers were warned that if they failed to delete their video recordings, they "were going to have us arrested."
Wegler said many of her fellow passengers agreed to delete their videos. However, she decided to keep some on her phone, despite airline staff's threats.
Her videos appear to show a Porter representative explaining that video recording in the airport was not allowed under security rules.
The Massachusetts Port Authority (MPA) has said there is no such law or policy, however.
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Now I'll have to rethink whether to use them again. They are a small airline based out of Toronto, and are the sole airline that flies into Billy Bishop Airport which is a small island basically 3 minutes from downtown Toronto.
I'm honestly really disappointed. For me, they were one of the few airlines I flew in the past few years that I had zero complaints about (and this was the same route, Boston to Toronto).
I can't fly anymore! Yay!!!! 
