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I am the General Manager of Viking Travel and I was on Business Class of VN1169 on 18th April and I witness the whole incident as everything happened there.

Flight VN1169 was originally due to depart for Ho Chi Minh from Hanoi at 2145 but due to late arrival of the flight to Hanoi, the departure time was changed to 2205. When we were about half an hour to reaching HCMC, we were informed by the crew that we were being diverted to Danang due to the bad weather.

Upon landing in Danang at 0100, we were informed by the crew that we would be refueling and then we would fly back to HCMC. While that was happening, the “so called Tae Kwan Do Coach” (img0001) came into Business Class and started to have a conversation with one of the stewardess. After that, he went back to the Economy Class and came back with his hand carry bag and another friend. He then conveniently put himself on seat 1C which was originally my seat! I still have my boarding pass to prove that. I had changed my seat myself as there were only 3 Business Class passengers at that time and the man behind me at seat 2C (image 0002 the man in white facing us) was coughing so much. During this time, I then asked the stewardess why that man was allowed to move to Business Class and on my seat when he was supposed to be in Economy and she replied that he had requested to go off the plane at Danang and they were waiting for the reply from Airport Security. At this time, another man from Economy approached the stewardess. I now know that he was actually with the singer Quang Ha (image 0002 with hand on the head Quang Ha and his friend on his right) Quang Ha’s friend was very aggressive while walking through Business Class to talk to the stewardess who was already in the midst of another conversation with the airport crew and the coach. He was also shouting but after a while, he actually went back to economy. During this time, I had actually taken my camera out and was about to take more photos when Quang Ha actually sat next to me and said”No…no…” I actually got mad with him as I was also on the phone with a friend and I turned round to tell Quang Ha” Shut up you bloody Gay”. That caught him by surprised and he went off in a huff back to his friend. In the end, it was not possible for the coach to alight and as the plane had finished refueling and the Captain had asked for the door to close, one of the stewardess then approached the coach and asked him and his friend to return to their original seats which he refused. He was very rude and started shouting at the stewardess and the poor lady was almost in tears but she bravely told him firmly that he was to go back to his seat before moving on to check the door. He then got up and approached all four stewardesses who were preparing for the take off and he shouted and waved his fist at them before going back to seat 1C. His friend during the commotion actually moved back to Economy. I believe that this was when the stewardess had no choice but to report to the Bulgarian Captain of the flight. Hence, the flight was once again delayed as the door was opened again. I asked the stewardess why that was so and she told me that the Captain had called the airport security to assist in this matter and that we were now waiting for them to approach the plane. When the coach realized what had happened, he quickly took his bag and moved back to his original seat in Economy.

After a while, 5 personals came into the plane. Two of them were clearly in a brownish black uniform and they had handcuffs hanging on the left top side of their shirts while the other three had airport passes on them. After speaking to the stewardess, they then moved on to the economy section and not too long after that I heard the loud commotion. I then saw the 5 personals half dragging the coach(as he refused to listen to them) to the business class entrance as they were going to arrest him for obstruction. The coach was screaming at them on the top of his voice and when they came to the last seats of the business class, the coach put his one of his leg in between 2 of the business class seats and was clutching the seat with both his arms. He actually appealed to the Australian and I who were on Business class to help him. “Help me…help me..” but obviously we were not going to do so especially when all these delays were created by him and Quang Ha’s friend. At that time, I could already see one hand attached to the handcuff but I guess the 5 of them could not managed to handcuff his other hand. Then Quang Ha’s friend again joined in the commotion along with Quang Ha and 2 other of their friends (1 woman and the other a guy) and also the coach’s friend. This was so uncalled for as the 5 personals were already having a handful with the coach. When they finally managed to remove the coach from the business class seat and moved him off the plane, Quang Ha and his group also left the plane with him. That was about 3am. In the end, we were told by the Captain and the stewardess that we had to wait a while longer as they now had to find these six passengers’ checked in luggage and offload the plane.(Image 0004 and 0005). Flight VN1169 finally took off at 4am and we arrived in HCMC at 5am.