Video: They expel a passenger from an airplane for wearing underwear like tapping

The United Airlines airline expelled a passenger from a plane that had been putting a thong on the face as a mask, before taking off its flight between Fort Lauderdale, in Florida, and Washington D.C., local media reported.

Adam Jenne, 38, put on that garment instead of a tapping to illustrate the "absurd" of the norm that forces to carry a mask in the planes by the COVID-19, as explained to the NBC2 News channel.

For him, it makes no sense to ask passengers to carry tapping until the plane reaches their cruise altitude, if they can then remove them to eat or drink.

A video filmed by another passenger and issued by local media shows the moment when United Airlines staff informs Jenne that she will not be able to travel with the red thong on her face.

The man then asks why he cannot fly, and when they answer that he is not complying with the rules, he leaves his seat, resigned.

In an interview with NBC2 News, Jenne compared the Afro -American Rosa Parks, an icon of civil rights movement, which refused to give her seat to a target on a Alabama bus in 1955.

According to Jenne, her expulsion from the flight caused several passengers to leave the plane, as a sign of solidarity.

In the video you can see how at least one of them asks to get off the device after the incident.

United Airlines issued a statement about what happened: