Yes they may be making the first part up, but something had gone on before the police arrived. Some reports say it stated on the plane, it will all come out over the next few weeks.
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Who allegedly started altercation with the mother?
The chaos at Manchester Airport is now thought to have followed a mid-air row involving the mother of the two men.
Family sources claimed Fahir and Amaad Khan were defending their mother when they were taken into custody by police after she arrived from Pakistan .
The mother was allegedly involved in a row during the flight with a male passenger - with insiders alleging that while she was picking up her luggage in Terminal 2, the same man pushed her with his trolley and made racist comments towards her.
It is claimed that the mother later pointed him out to her sons, and one then confronted the man - before a physical altercation that saw the police called.
However nothing more is known about the man, or why the incident began on the plane. It is also not clear whether he was one of the people arrested by police.
Four men were arrested at the scene for affray and assault on emergency service workers, but Greater Manchester Police have not confirmed their identities.
3. What happened on the plane?
The chaos is believed to be linked back to the flight from Pakistan that landed at Manchester Airport on Tuesday, but little is known about what actually happened.
The Daily Telegraph reported that the family told the newspaper that 'words were spoken between a middle-aged woman of Asian descent and another passenger'.
Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham told BBC Radio 4's World At One yesterday that the mother told her sons there had been 'an issue on the flight' and 'pointed somebody out and then there was an altercation in the arrivals hall'.
But this is all that is known of what happened in flight, and no video footage or further details have been released by any of the passengers on board.
There is also unlikely to have been any police bodycam footage of any on-board incidents because officers are not believed to have been called to the plane.