
Passengers panic as american airlines flight ‘floods’ in midair: ‘new fear unlocked’
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Freaked-out flyers feared they’d “drown” 30,000 feet above the ground. Cruising the friendly skies was just as wet as sailing the high seas for passengers on an American Airlines flight
from Dallas, Texas, to Minneapolis, Minnesota on Dec. 7. as water began flooding the cabin midair. American Airlines did not immediately respond to The Post’s request for comment. However,
social media sure is talking about the watery ride. EXPLORE MORE “The in-flight movie was Titanic,” wisecracked a content creator in the caption of a viral clip featuring footage of the
soggy mishap. Visuals of the overflow scared up over 7.2 million TikTok views. Céline Dion’s “My Heart Will Go On” — which served as the theme song to the 1997 blockbuster about the luxury
steamship that sank in the North Atlantic Ocean in 1912 — played in the background of the post. The video showed shocked travelers rushing to escape the gush, which seeped down the aisle
towards the front of the plane due to a leak in a rear restroom. Hilary Stewart Blazevic, a passenger on the plane, claimed that a woman had used the bathroom and alerted a flight attendant
to the leak, per Storyful. But the cabin crew member was unable to quell the cascade. “It was utter disbelief and a little panic realizing they can’t shut off the water,” said Blazevic,
adding that flyers grabbed their belongings off of the floor and lifted their feet to avoid the “disgusting” pool. Cringing online commenters are calling the chaos their “new ‘Final
Destination’ fear” — likening the calamity to the horror movie franchise about folks narrowly evading eminent death. “Imaging drowning … on a plane … in air,” wrote a shaken spectator.
“Drowning at 30,000 feet going 500mphs lol,” an equally rattled viewer remarked. “New final destination fear unlocked,” another added. But a little water — that may or may not be sewage —
is far from the scariest obstacle flyers endured in recent months. Jetsetters on a Boeing 737 flew into a panic after oxygen masks unexpectedly deployed in their faces while onboard an Air
Algerie flight AH 1460 flying from Algeria to Lyon, France, in August. And trippers on Avianca Airlines flight to Colombia were left screaming, gripping their seats and praying to
themselves, when severe turbulence viciously rocked the plane during a September departure. “It was a very panicky moment,” said a passenger, who recorded the harrowing mayhem. “[We]
thought the plane was going to crash.”