[Gayle]

Another devil's advocate bit coming up here -

What if these two men were perfectly safe and were not a threat but the aim was to deliberately get thrown off the plane? They may get compensation, they may get the politically correct brigade saying that they were treated wrongly, etc. However, the next time that two men get on a plane and behave suspiciously the pilot may have less conviction to throw them off - the next time they may be carrying a bomb. In other words, they might be deliberately crying wolf.

As it happens I don't believe that for a moment, I think mass hysteria and paranoia sunk in and the pilot responded badly. He should have sent them through more security checks and got the police to conduct interviews with them and he should have got the police to reassure the passengers.