Video & Photos: BankyW & other passengers protest in NYC-bound Arik flight

The passengers including Nigerian popular singer Banky W on a New York bound Arik Air trip were subjected to untold hardship occasioned by delays in checking in and excruciating heat after boarding the aircraft.
The passengers of flight Lagos-New York were provided with water but lacked air conditioning in the aircraft cabin. They were pushed on the edge of their patience. Adults and children were seen fanning themselves with newspapers and eventually had to take off their shirts. Without air-conditioning or proper ventilation, passengers would have used up the oxygen on board, recycled it as CO2 and begun inhaling the dangerous air.
“Let me out, I can’t take it anymore!” a woman screams. “This is wickedness, why are they acting like this?” an elderly man asks.
Some of the passengers including popular singer BankyW  tried to get the attention of the pilot in the cockpit. Even usually-calm Banky lost it eventually!
“Why are you shouting at me? You want to start fighting here? Will you calm down here,” BankyW shouts back at the man who also replies him, “Sharrap, I’m flying 10 hours, I’m a married man.”
Passengers became very anxious and were screaming to get down, the cabin crew looked just as confused.
The video does not show whether air conditioning was restored or the flight eventually took off.
There has been no official statement from Arik Air.
See the vid. & pics below.