Video: When Political Unrest Goes Airborne

Published: April 26, 2016

It looks like there was some excitement on last night’s American Airlines flight from Buenos Aires to Miami, AA900.

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Carlos Zannini, Argentina’s former Legal and Technical Secretary, was on the flight. Now, I don’t know much about Argentinian politics, though it seems like he’s not too popular among Argentinians, as a near riot broke out when other passengers found out he was aboard.

There are lots of videos of the situation. This one probably captures the situation best:

It got so bad that the captain supposedly had to make an announcement saying that the flight would be canceled if the situation didn’t get better, and that if anything happened inflight, they would immediately divert. Apparently that was enough to calm people down.

Now, I assume there’s a reason people dislike this guy. That being said, there’s a time and place for protest, and an airplane isn’t it. Based on the video alone I feel kind of bad for the guy, and he’s certainly reacting in an extremely calm way, which is impressive. I suspect he’s used to being attacked like this, so maybe it’s not even that out of the ordinary for him.

There are plenty of other video perspectives of the incident, including these three:

https://twitter.com/HacemeTuyaJoe/status/724738836887158785

Escrachan a Zanini yendo a Miami pic.twitter.com/yzxPZD1DUt

— Ari Paluch (@paluchari) April 25, 2016

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GupxYBwRscs

The flight landed in Miami without incident, and according to infobae, Zannini was escorted off the plane by DHS officers.

(Tip of the hat to Aeroflot001 on airliners.net)

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Juan Guest

April 27, 2016, 10:12 pm

Ya want to know what is Argentina politics? Castro's plan for socialism to take over LatAm. Look at Brazil, Nicaragua, Venezuela, Argentina.... in all of them, leftism is falling, and good riddance. I want my toilet paper, I want my electricity. I better submit this, my electricity will go for four hours shortly

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Angel Member

April 27, 2016, 10:05 am

Btw, was sitting in Business class and later moved all the way back to coach. The issue with these guys is that they supposedly hated the US of A, called most people who traveled there or bought dollars "cipayos" and proclaimed their love for everything National and Popular yet they went to Miami, Orlando and NYC on vacation and bought anything Apple related, flew first class and wore expensive clothes and jewelry.

Brian L. Gold

April 27, 2016, 9:33 am

I don't have any sympathy for this idiot, given his association with Kirchner, but acting like a bunch of rioting thugs is inexcusable.

TEX277 Guest

April 27, 2016, 8:50 am

Where'd the hosties go???

No Name Guest

April 27, 2016, 8:32 am

@Norman Nobody claimed that he was any more competent at corruption than he was at running a government. Also if he was stupid enough to keep the money in Argentina he will have lost a lot of money due to the currency falling From wikipedia he went from having just shy of having 200K ARS in 2003 to 7 million ARS in 2011 which would have been around 1.7 m USD in beginning of 2011. To day that is under 500K USD Keep in mind that private sector job wages in Argentina seems to be around 12K ARS/month at the moment, but averaged 3841.72 ARS/Month from 2003 until 2014 after starting to rise fast after 2008 you do start to wonder where a humble civil servant got the money from. So it seems he know the jig is up and is try to save money by flying Y. Surprised the fucker got a visa to the US personally.

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