• July 23, 2018: An aircraft at Landvetter is prevented from lifting because Elin Ersson refused to obey the captain's order. Her purpose was to stop an expulsion to Afghanistan. The Prison Service decides not to carry out the deportation that day and she is taken care of by the police.
Elin Ersson broadcasts the entire event on social media, the video is spread and it becomes a news all over the world.
• July 27, 2018: The Prosecutor's Office announces that a preliminary investigation has been initiated regarding suspected violation of the Aviation Regulation.
• October 19, 2018: Elin Ersson is charged with a violation of the Aviation Regulation. In the lawsuit, the prosecutor writes that she "did not obey what the commander decided on the order on board by at the time of departure of the aircraft when all passengers are to sit inside the aircraft and stand up in the aisle and refuse to sit down".
• February 4, 2019: Trial begins at Gothenburg District Court. Before the trial, Elin Ersson's lawyer sent supplementary evidence, a legal opinion from Dennis Martinsson's legal doctor in criminal justice at Stockholm University, which states in his plea that the Aviation Act is so formulated that it can be questioned whether it can be applied to what Elin Ersson did.
• February 18 , 2019: Elin Ersson is convicted of a violation of the Aviation Act and sentenced to daily fines totaling SEK 3,000. Her lawyer Tomas Fridh is not satisfied with the verdict but intends to appeal.
• March 8, 2019: Svenska Dagbladet reveals that a politician from the Sweden Democrats, who sat as a committee member in the trial, had called Elin Ersson for crime on social media - before he was sentenced in the case.
• March 14, 2019: Gothenburg District Court shuts down the district attorney who called Elin Ersson for criminal and who then participated in and sentenced her to the district court for violations of the Aviation Act.
• March 29, 2019: The High Court announces that the trial will be re-instated. The assessment is that the committee member was disgusted.
• May 15, 2019: The district court announces that the disputed committee member will be fired.