A Nigerian woman is suing United Airlines claiming she and her two children were kicked off a flight because a passenger said she smelled.Queen Obioma said she was traveling from Lagos, Nigeria, to Ontario, Canada, on March 4, 2016 when an airline employee escorted her from the plane before takeoff.

Obioma said the employee then went back on the plane and escorted her two children off. She claimed in her suit that she was told she was not allowed back on the flight because a passenger had complained about her smell, the Houston Chronicle reports.


Obioma said the drama started when she and her family boarded a United flight at Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston. She said when she got to her assigned seat in business class a white man was already sitting there.

The man reportedly refused to move, the lawsuit states. Flight personnel got involved but the man still refused to get out the seat so Obioma said she agreed to sit in the man's assigned seat nearby. Before takeoff, Obioma said she went to the bathroom and when she tried to return to her seat the passenger who had earlier taken her seat blocked her path.

She said in the suit that a United employee then ordered her off the plane. Obioma said she was met by another employee who informed her that she was not allowed back on the plane because the pilot received a complaint from the man sitting near he said that she smelled 'pungent'.

The man reportedly told the pilot that he was not comfortable flying with her. Obioma said was distraught and informed personnel that her two children were still on the flight. She said a United worker removed her children from the plane.
According to the suit, the family was on the second leg of a three flight journey from Nigeria to Canada, where her children attend school.

Obioma, a frequent flier member on the United's Star Alliances, said they were traveling from Houston to San Francisco where they were going to take a connecting flight to Canada.

She said they made the connection after a five-hour delay in Houston.



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Chai Igbo Amaka o! The cleanest tribe in naija not those ewedu people! buy seriously this is unacceptable

First drug development, now this

This is unacceptable! But why the woman dey smell nah? Some women can smell shaa.. especially their hair.

This sounds more like an act of discrimination and hate!

but on a more serious note, why must you smell? can't you take your bathe before embarkin on a journey?

Everyone that commented above me has no sense. So now you're quick to side the man over the Nigerian woman. How sure are you that the woman smell was pungent? Smell is relative and what is shi.t to you may be scent to another. She may have smelled of fufu and egusi soup and I feel it is highly intolerable for her to be pushed off the plane for that reason. All these Indians stink of garlic, yet we don't fling them into the Atlantic? The moral of the story is- this is racism and the people above me are guilty.

which smell?? this is hate jare. how wish Nigeria is a sensitive Nation to take this blunt scene to the next level

first of all... I want to say the guys above are either suffering from inferiority complex or stupidity or both.... then the next point I have to make is that Nigeria is a poo hole, if not, tell me why a country richer than most African and even European countries in natural and human resources can't manage and boast of a single airline to avoid shits like this

This is pure racism. Nothing more

And the irony of it is that this white people can have unpleasant odour.... Abeg she should sue and make good money off them..