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Two women thrown off plane over MAGA hat fight

Passengers said to have become embroiled in a heated argument after one of them wore the Trump-supporting headgear

Two women were reportedly ejected from a flight at Heathrow Airport after a fight broke out over a “Make America Great Again” cap.
The American passengers were embroiled in an argument in the queue for a British Airways flight to Texas from Heathrow’s Terminal 5, The Sun reported.
One of the women was reportedly wearing a red “MAGA” cap, worn by supporters of Donald Trump, days before the US presidential election on Nov 5.
Punches were exchanged between the two women once they had boarded the flight, and police were called by the plane’s captain, according to the newspaper report.
Both women were then removed from the plane, causing a two-hour delay for other passengers.
The flight was scheduled for departure at 12.10pm, but left Heathrow at 2.11pm.
The Metropolitan Police, which is investigating the incident, said that two women, one in her 40s and another in her 60s, made “counter allegations of affray”.
“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 spokesman said.
A source at the airline 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.”
A British Airways spokesman said: “We apologised to our customers for the delay and got them on the way as quickly as possible.”
Trump merchandise has previously caused incidents in public.
On Saturday, a family claimed they had been denied entry to a San Francisco 49ers game because they were wearing MAGA caps.
In 2016, a New York man said he had been assaulted on the subway because he was wearing the cap.

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