What would you do if you saw security officers subduing a passenger on your flight - violently? That’s exactly what Ayo Omotade faced when he boarded a flight in 2008 at London's Heathrow airport.
When Ayo heard the man say he was dying, he immediately stepped in - a decision that got him arrested and cost him his job. He tells host Jonathan Groubert why he’d still do it all over again.
Link - Training video from security firm G4S.
This story was taken from the latest edition of The State We're In - Stepping in.
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Wow. Hiram. You should really listen to the piece because, reading your rant, you clearly didn't.
Gerry, I rad your read your rant and the rant of the person who jumped into a security situation in which he should have not jumped into. He turn a serious situation into a worse situation. It appears you are the one that didn't listen to the man's rant (justification) for getting involved into a critical incident. Listen again and learn to recognise a security threat he imposed on the passengers of the airline. It is clear you didn't understand or didn't want to understand that he made the situation worse or you wouldn't have made your rant.
Hiram: a British court acquitted Ayo of all charges. He did nothing wrong. He didn't make the situation worse -- that's a matter of public record, not individual opinion. In fact, had anyone listened to his inquiries, there's a chance that the security measures being taken ("carpet karaoke") would have been abandoned and another man's life one year later would have been saved in a similar situation at Heathrow. Ayo wasn't the problem; security staff, police and British Air staff were. Greg Kelly, Editor TSWI
I just looked through a few articles on this site and saw your comments all over the place. Your modus operandi seems to be more or less the same. You start off with a brief quote from someone you disagree with, you always find that someone, and then you produced a lengthy, negative riff on it. There's something sad about this. Truly you need to find something else to do with your life, sir. I mean that. Over and out.
Gerry, I read your two comments and your modus oprandi reflects you don't have the ability to debate but to insult. You come out and state a negative riff without even to have to think. Your insults are automatic and that implies you have an ego problem and are self-centered person. Your instant insults reflects how you communicate with others. You can only communicate in such a way because you perceive yourself as perfect and you know you are not; therefore, you do it in order to support your ego. You do need help and I truely mean that Gerry. There are support groups for people with your problems.
I'm rubber. You're glue. Everything you say bounces off me and sticks to you.
"How deciding is the colour of the skin?"...Wow, this happened because of the colour of his skin! You have a Nigerian, who is being deported, to Nigeria and he causes a disturbance on an airplane (most likely to keep from being deported) with others who are being deported to the same country and it was all decided by the colour of one's skin. Why didn't all those who were being deported act as the one person and cause a mass distubance on the plane? In the first place, people who are being deported should not fly on a airline with individuals who are not prisoners or being deported. The government should have use special planes to transport illegals and criminals. Second, the man who interfered should have been detained immediately because he was interferring with officers who were trying to subdue a passenger (deportee) who they knew nothing about or his relationship with the deportee. They let it get out of hand. Also the person was in violation of removing a specific amount of money over the authorised limit and used the execuse he had letters showing the money belong to other people. The logic goes "I can remove one million Euros from a country as long as I have letters from someone, whether they exist or not. What a great way to move moneyfrom a country without paying taxes. Those officers put the entire plane and it's passengers in jeopardy by waiting until the incident was over to arrest him. He might have been justified in his own mind but he shouldn't have did what he did. What if a situation like this one happened while in the air? A lot of people could have lost their lives. Both the security and the man in this article were wrong. Both endangered the plane and it's passengers. The pilot was right to refuse the man on the plane. I would have got off the plane and flown on another because the pilot and staff were under stress from the incident. Just another accident waiting to happen because the pilot is stressed.
How deciding is the colour of the skin?
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