Amir Khan is kicked off American Airlines flight by US police after mask row – as boxer complains he did nothing wrong

• 34-year-old British boxer claimed he had been ‘banned’ by American Airlines 
• He spoke of being ‘disgusted’ by his alleged treatment on way to a training camp
• Said colleague removed when someone complained mask ‘wasn’t high enough’ 

British boxer Amir Khan today revealed he had been kicked off an American Airlines flight by US police after a facemask row. 

The 34-year-old, who has also appeared on reality television shows including I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here!, claimed he had been ‘banned’ by the carrier.

In a video posted to Twitter, he said he was trying to fly to a training camp in Colorado from New York, but he and a colleague were removed when someone complained his colleague’s mask ‘was not high enough’.

He spoke of being ‘disgusted’ by his alleged treatment. 

The 34-year-old, who has also appeared on reality television shows including I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here!, claimed he had been ‘banned’ by American Airlines 

Khan – who was on the way to a training camp – complained about the incident in a tweet

Khan said: ‘I was taken off the plane today when I was going to training camp to Colorado Springs by the police.

‘Obviously a complaint was made by American Airlines staff, they said that my colleague’s mask was not high enough and not up, that they had to stop the plane and take me and my friend off when I did nothing wrong.

‘They kicked us both off, I was sat on 1A, he was sat on 1B – I find it so disgusting and so disrespectful, I was supposed to go to Colorado springs for a training camp and now I’m back in New York for another day.

‘Now I have to reschedule another airplane to travel back to training camp which is really upsetting, for no reason this was and I’m just so disgusted that American Airlines would do this to us and ban me from travelling.

‘I’m sure there must be cameras on the airplane that they could see, or someone should see, to see that if my colleague really was bad in anyway or caused a scene in a way where he had to be taken off the plane – I’ve never seen this happen before.’

American Airlines has been approached for comment. 

American Airlines has been approached for comment

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