The retired UFC fighter was involved in a seating incident with Alaska Airlines staff and was later escorted off the aircraft in Las Vegas in the US.Footage has emerged online of Hall of Fame UFC fighter Khabib Nurmagomedov involved in a seating dispute with airline staff at Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas that led to the Russian being escorted off a flight he was taking to Los Angeles.
The dispute centred around whether Nurmagomedov, who was sitting in the plane’s exit row, was prepared, or able, to help other passengers in the event of an emergency.
On the video, an Alaska Airlines flight attendant is seen asking the 36-year-old if he had the capacity to assist others from his window exit seat, should he be required to do so.
The incident was recorded on another passenger’s mobile phone and the flight attendant is heard to say, “We cannot allow you to sit in the exit row … I am not going to do this back and forth. I’ll go call a supervisor. You can either take a different seat or we can go ahead and escort you off the plane.”
Nurmagomedov responded to the flight attendant by saying, “It’s not fair.” He is also heard to say that he had fully complied with the flight crew during the onboarding process, and added: “When I was in check-in …
