A YouTube star's video about his removal from a Delta Airlines flight has gone viral across social media.
Adam Saleh told the BBC he was asked to get off the London-New York flight on Wednesday after speaking to his mother in Arabic on the phone.
A fellow passenger allegedly expressed feeling uncomfortable.
Delta Airlines confirmed that two customers were removed after a "disturbance" and said it would investigate the report.
The incident is said to have taken place while the plane was still at Heathrow airport, and also involved Mr Saleh's friend.
Mr Saleh said: "This lady screamed, 'What is he saying?' and said she felt uncomfortable.
"The captain came and asked what happened.
"I was so disgusted I took a video as I was being asked to leave," he added.
US airline Delta released a statement on their website saying "more than 20 customers" expressed their discomfort. It is unclear whether they were referring to the Arabic speaking, or the disturbance that followed.
"We are taking allegations of discrimination very seriously; our culture requires treating others with respect," the statement said.
Mr Saleh said he later boarded a different flight with a different company.
"Once we were off the [Delta Airlines] plane, we were told it was because we were being loud. You don't just kick someone off for being loud!" said Mr Saleh.
Mr Saleh's friend, Slim Albaher, who was also escorted off the plane, said: "I just froze. It was like something you'd only see in the movies."
Mr Saleh is well-known for carrying out pranks, which he posts on YouTube.
Earlier this month, he claimed to have hidden in a suitcase and travelled from Melbourne to Sydney in the hold. It was later exposed as a hoax.
His many followers picked up his Delta Airlines story, and in just three hours his video had more than 120,000 retweets and five million views on Facebook.
Soon after the Heathrow incident, the hashtag #BoycottDelta was trending in London and his updates on Twitter were getting lots of shares:


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MAD MEN PLANE

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I think the Airliner did the right thing, under that circumstances he should have spoken in a language everybody will understand. And remember they no dey write terrorist for face.

Jafar1:
MAD MEN PLANE

They're not mad at all. Same time a few years ago, our own, abdulmutalaab farouk wanted to bomb a detriot-bound plane in the UK. My friend was on that plane. Thank God the idiot was impeded from carrying out his act. If you don't see anything bad in what Delta airlines did, it's unfortunate. Every nation has a role to play in checking terrorism.

This is utterly disgraceful. You could actually hear some persons behind saying "bye".. Shame!

awelekiti:
They're not mad at all. Same time a few years ago, our own, abdulmutalaab farouk wanted to bomb a detriot-bound plane in the UK. My friend was on that plane. Thank God the idiot was impeded from carrying out his act. If you don't see anything bad in what Delta airlines did, it's unfortunate. Every nation has a role to play in checking terrorism.

Does speaking Arabic automatically make you a terrorist suspect?

tdayof:


Does speaking Arabic automatically make you a terrorist suspect?

No! The language is spoken largely by terrorists before they carry out any form of attacks though.

BrokenTV:
I think the Airliner did the right thing, under that circumstances he should have spoken in a language everybody will understand. And remember they no dey write terrorist for face.

YOU DEY MAD.

Mille:


YOU DEY MAD.

It takes a mad man to know who is mad, abi I lie for waiting I talk, them they write terrorist for face.

BrokenTV:

It takes a mad man to know who is mad, abi I lie for waiting I talk, them they write terrorist for face.

SILLY IDIOT thinking I'm quoting him because of Islam. Check my previous posts you silly idiot and you'll see I'm an atheist with a big dislike for religion. Same religion which clouds your judgement and makes people like you really dumb.

So speaking a different language you don't understand also make you so uncomfortable? smh. Just stay in that your East because people like you can never live in a multicultural city.

No but that guy is a prankster who has been known to make controversial videos eg one where he claimed he was harassed by police but ended up being a lie.

Also eye witnesses on the flight claim he is lieing and wasn't even on the phone. He and his friend did it to intentionally stir up trouble and get a reaction for YouTube. Happy he was thrown off the plane.

tdayof:


Does speaking Arabic automatically make you a terrorist suspect?

Mille:


SILLY IDIOT thinking I'm quoting him because of Islam. Check my previous posts you silly idiot and you'll see I'm an atheist with a big dislike for religion. Same religion which clouds your judgement and makes people like you really dumb.

So speaking a different language you don't understand also make you so uncomfortable? smh. Just stay in that your East because people like you can never live in a multicultural city.

See this one, waiting concern me with you being an atheist or not, check my profile here before you start engaging me in E-war, you are not my mate here, I can see you like throwing insult first. Is like you have comprehension problem, I don't discriminate against people speaking language I don't understand. We all know that majority of terrorism propagated in the world are done by Muslim. All Muslims are not terrorist, but all terrorist are Muslims. Deal with the fact guy.