Pilot threatens to end flight due to AirDrop nudes.
A Southwest Airlines pilot threatened to turn the plane around as the aircraft made its way to the runway, after a passenger sent nude photos via AirDrop to fellow travellers onboard.
The flight was preparing for its departure from Houston, Texas, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico when the unknown passenger began sharing the images.
In a viral video posted to TikTok by passenger Teighlor Marsalis, the pilot can be heard saying: “So here’s the deal, if this continues while we’re on the ground I’m going to have to pull back to the gate, everybody is going to have to get off, we’re going to have to get security involved, and this vacation is going to be ruined.”
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The video, which has racked up more than 2.6 million views, attracted commentators who seemed to find the incident amusing.
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“This feels like my mom turning around in the car to me and my twin sister,” one user wrote.
“Haha major dad vibes,” another agreed.
But not everyone found the naughty stunt funny.
“The Captain is in charge. He gave a fair warning. People need to stop doing this stuff on airplanes,” wrote a scolding commentator.
“Cyberflashing” is a crime in many jurisdictions, and this is not Southwest Airlines’ first experience with it.
Last June, a male passenger was booted off a flight bound for Denver. According to The Independent, “he decided to send a lewd photo to several devices around him.” When he was confronted about it by one of the cabin crew, he said he just having fun.
The AirDrop feature has caused pandemonium in other ways. A United Airlines flight was evacuated after a teenager sent images of a toy gun to other passengers on the plane.
In another incident, a photo of a plane crash was anonymously sent to “more than 150 passengers” onboard a plane in Israel, leading to the postponement of the flight.
