In hijackings, especially hijackings, passengers usually have a nightmare until the end of the incident, but passengers are liable to be surprised by the nightmare, something that has already happened on the flight.
On Thursday, passengers on an Israeli El Al flight from New York to Tel Aviv were accused of "lying and kidnapping" after a delay of five hours before taking off from John F. Kennedy Airport in New York.
The passengers explained that the pilot of the flight "002", belonging to Al, cheated and lied to them, while the company denied this and accused some passengers of causing violence and unrest on board, according to the newspaper "Jerozlimpost" Israeli version in English.
The flight was scheduled to arrive from Kennedy airport at 6:30 pm Thursday, arriving in Tel Aviv on Friday evening, but the flight was delayed by about 5 hours, due to a snowstorm, and the crew of the El Al flight failed to arrive on time.
But for hard-line Jews, the delay means they will not arrive in Tel Aviv before Saturday, their religious holiday, which means they will violate the religious holiday.
The company issued a preliminary statement saying members of the ultra-Orthodox community had violently caused the plane and increased tensions and pressure, which was supported by some non-religious travelers in comments on social networking pages.
Religious passengers began to ask before the plane took off because they realized the flight would last until Saturday and would not arrive on Friday night, a violation of their religious holiday.
According to the passengers, the captain announced that the plane would return to the gate to allow those who wished to disembark, but went to the runway and took off without informing the passengers, indicating that they had informed their families that they would stay in New York.
After taking off, the captain told the passengers that the plane was on its way to Tel Aviv, but he explained that it would land first in the Greek capital of Athens so that the religious could stay there and stay until Saturday evening.
One passenger said there had been no violence, but some travelers had already shouted at the hosts, while others accused the crew of lying and stealing.
Non-religious travelers, however, wrote on social media criticizing religious travelers and their behavior, pointing out that a religious passenger hit a hostess and that she cried because of it.
"The people who entrusted us with our lives to travel to Tel Aviv stayed in the cockpit and did not talk to us, and they left the hostesses to talk to us," said Yehudit Rosler, a passenger from New York. They told us we were going back to the gate, but they took off instead. "
Some passengers told her that passengers had driven through the cockpit door to ask the pilot and his assistant to explain what was happening, she said.
After hours of air travel, the captain announced that he would be transferred to Athens for those who wanted to get out of the religious. Indeed, some 150 religious people landed in Athens so as not to violate the sanctity of the Sabbath.
Al Al said it would file a complaint against passengers who caused violence to the police. "We are seriously considering the violent behavior caused by some passengers," she said.
