Watch: Airline Passengers Prevent Deportation Of Convict

A video emerged Wednesday showing passengers aboard a Turkish Airlines flight preventing a convicted felon from getting deported to his native country.

A Turkish man, who had been convicted of serious charges, was accompanied by the British police to Heathrow Airport, England, on Tuesday to be deported back to his nation via an Istanbul-bound plane. However, once the man got onboard the flight, he started pleading loudly in front of his co-passengers.

He told the people present on the flight at the time that he was forcibly being separated from his family and taken to Somalia.

After hearing the man’s pleas, many of the passengers got riled up and demanded the officers from U.K.’s Home Office, accompanying the convict, take the man off the aircraft. In the video, the passengers can be heard shouting, “take him off the plane.”

Despite repeated assurances by the officers, the passengers refused to believe that the man in question was a convict and continued to protest against his deportation.

One of them told a Home Office staff that the man claimed he was being taken to Mogadishu in Somalia. “And you believe him?” the officer replied. Another passenger demanded the man not to be transported to Somalia as it was a common knowledge that people die in Mogadishu. At this, another officer calmly stated, “They die in London, sir.”

Another official claimed he had been to Somalia several times in the past and the situation there was “all right,” which only seemed to aggravate the passengers even more.

As the chaos inside the plane grew, making it increasingly delayed for take-off, the officers tried to block the passengers’ view of the convict, who continued to shout and scream, assuring them the situation will calm down once the flight leaves the airport.

“It's an attempt to get himself thrown off the aircraft so he can stay in the U.K.,” said one officer.

When some of the passengers started complaining that the screaming convict was scaring them, one of the officers said, “Hang on, how many of you have babies? How many of them scream? You won’t get scared when they scream.”

After continued protests, the officers gave in and the convict was escorted out of the plane to loud applause from flight passengers. One of the passengers celebrated saying the convict was a “free man.”

A spokesperson from the Home Office released the following statement to Mail Online regarding the incident: “We only return those with no legal right to remain in the UK, including foreign national offenders. All foreign nationals who are given a custodial sentence will be considered for removal. Foreign nationals who abuse our hospitality by committing crimes in the UK should be in no doubt of our determination to deport them and we have removed more than 43,000 foreign offenders since 2010.”