AP reporter claims she was almost ‘removed’ from flight after pilot signed off with ‘Let’s Go Brandon’

AP reporter claims she was almost ‘removed’ from flight after pilot signed off with ‘Let’s Go Brandon’

Southwest on defense

Critics are calling for the firing of an unidentified pilot after he allegedly signed off when speaking to his passengers, including a reporter, by saying, “Let’s Go, Brandon,” a phrase commonly used to insult President Joe Biden.

(RT-USA News)  In Saturday tweets, Associated Press reporter Colleen Long said she was on the Southwest flight from Houston, Texas to Albuquerque, New Mexico, and claimed she was almost “removed” after trying to ask the pilot about using the phrase. 

“That feeling when you’re trying to go on vacation and then the pilot says the very thing you’re working on over the loudspeaker and you have to try to get him comment but then almost get removed from plane,” Long tweeted, along with a story by her digging into the “let’s go, Brandon” phrase, which has become common at sporting events and among Biden critics.

The phrase began at a NASCAR event after an NBC reporter claimed to mishear a crowd chanting, “f**k Joe Biden,” instead hearing the now viral term.

Long said when she approached the cockpit to speak to the pilot, it was locked and they were about to begin departing.

A TikTok video showing a pilot saying the phrase as he prepares his passengers for landing has also been spread around social media, and it appears to be from a different flight. Pilots have been recently heard frequently repeating the phrase over their radios, according to a Daily Mail report.

Long’s account of events had many calling for the airline – which has been plagued by flight cancelations many critics believe have been caused by staffing shortages due to the Covid-19 vaccine mandate – to identify and fire the pilot. Others called for boycotts of the airline as a whole.

“On Friday morning on a Southwest flight from Houston to Albuquerque, the pilot signed off his greeting over the public address system with the phrase, to audible gasps from some passengers.”

Idk … seems bad @SouthwestAir https://t.co/ZfcI8XzVjw

— Brandon Richards (@BrandonRichards) October 30, 2021

!! -> https://t.co/V4tHqkAaDQ

— David Clinch (@DavidClinchNews) October 30, 2021

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