South African TV personality Shamiso Mosaka has been removed from a flight from Durban to Johannesburg because of her “unruly” behaviour, officials say.
Local airline CemAir said on Monday the flight was delayed 90 minutes due to the influencer’s refusal to follow “security regulations”.
He added that the pilot was forced to stop the “already running engines”.
Ms Mosaka did not respond to the BBC’s request for comment, but filmed the interaction on Instagram Live.
The influencer has over 140,000 followers on Instagram and is a presenter on the music channel MTV Base South Africa.
The video has been widely shared on social media, with many rallying behind Ms Mosaka.
In the video, the police ask the influencer to leave the flight, but she refuses to do so until they promise to book her another flight. The airline crew refuses this request.
She tries to defend herself and tries to gather support from other passengers to confirm that she was not a nuisance.
Ms Mosaka then says she feels the incident is racially motivated as she claims the cabin crew failed to adequately explain what they did wrong.
CemAir Chief Financial Officer Laura van der Molen told local newspaper The Citizen there was no “racial profiling”.
He said Ms Mosaka had “refused to abide by the airline’s regulations and unfortunately had to be forcibly removed”.
The situation occurred on Sunday at the King Shaka Zulu International Airport.
CemAir says the incident has been referred to the South African Police and will look into the matter.
The airline says it will “support the police in further investigating and possibly prosecuting the matter”.