where in the past church members had been largely invisible to the wider flying public , overnight they were viewed with deep suspicion and , in some cases , active persecution : there were incidences of disciples performing their pre-flight take-off rituals in airport lounges being attacked ; several of the larger airlines enforced a total ban on higher we followers ; even a case of one plane being halted on a runway halfway through its take-off procedures because a passengers vigilante collective had suspicions - wrongly as it turned out - as to the religious convictions of one of their fellow travellers and were refusing to assume their seated take-off positions unless the heretic was removed from the craft .