That’s the thing, the pilot is the ranking officer and company policy probably dictates that the person in charge of keeping the plane in the air is to isolate any threat to their ability to perform their duty. However, labeling someone a “threat” can have varying degrees, which leads me to believe that there is…

Or being black? From the accounts the pilot never made mention of it?

This all sounds a little ...strange, but I get it. At first I thought it was a full on Nazi celebration weekend. But, yeah, OK, some folks do Civil War, some do WWII. And seeing living, breathing people wearing the star of David their ancestors were forced to wear can be rightly jolting. So... ok.