SALT LAKE CITY - A man who refused to wear a face mask on a Utah-bound flight was escorted off the plane in Arizona after he and another man who asked him to follow the rules got into a physical altercation, police said Monday.Rylie Lansford of Lehigh, Utah, boarded the Allegiant flight in Mesa, Arizona, on Saturday and was sitting near both passengers.
As soon as the two men started fighting on the Provo-bound flight, Lansford said, she ran to the front of the plane and started recording video.“I just knew that something was going to go down and so really all I was thinking about was getting out of the way,” she said Monday.Lansford said the fight began when a man sitting behind her started arguing with a flight attendant after she asked.