United pilot attacked passenger for taking too long in the bathroom, lawsuit alleges
Yisroel Liebb of New Jersey claims pilot broke lock and pulled him out with his pants down, leaving him exposed
An Orthodox Jewish passenger says a United Airlines pilot forcibly removed him from an airplane bathroom while he was experiencing constipation, exposing his genitalia to other flyers during a flight from Tulum, Mexico, to Houston.
Yisroel Liebb, of New Jersey, described his trip through allegedly unfriendly skies in a federal lawsuit this week against the airline and the US Department of Homeland Security, whose officers he said boarded the plane upon landing and took him away in handcuffs.
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