Over the weekend, passengers disembarked a United Airlines plane after their pilot scared them with her bizarre rants. A passenger live tweeted what happened, saying that he got off the plane and that almost half the plane followed him out.
According to The Washington Post, the unidentified United Airlines pilot boarded the Feb. 11 afternoon flight at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport wearing a baseball cap and casual clothes. Right away, she reportedly got into an argument with the cabin crew, and the pilot asked the passengers whether it was fine for her to fly the plane even if she was out of uniform.
“She got on in street clothes and asked if we were ok with her flying like that,” passenger Randy Reiss tweeted. “We all said okay. Cute, right?”
Later, the pilot apologized for being late, revealing that she was going through a divorce. At that point, Reiss knew that something was wrong.
The pilot then pointed out an interracial couple in first class.
“I think in an effort to say ‘yay unity’ but it was awkward,” said Reiss.
Soon, the pilot decided to give her take on politics, telling passengers that she didn’t care if they voted for Trump or Clinton. But when she talked about the plane’s imminent takeoff, that’s when Reiss thought that enough was enough.
In a video which has been taken off YouTube, the pilot can be heard saying, “So I’ll stop, and we’ll fly the plane. Don’t worry. I’m going to let my co-pilot fly it. He’s a man.”
Reiss was the first to exit the plane and he told the flight attendant that the pilot was not mentally fit to fly. At least 50 other passengers followed Reiss’ lead.
It was reported that some passengers were crying as they returned to the terminal. Another passenger named Chris Moore said that a gate agent was distraught as she told him that she tried to stop the pilot from boarding the plane.
After a while, a new pilot took the United Airlines flight to San Francisco. Before Reiss re-boarded the flight, he said that the original pilot apologized and hugged him before they went their separate ways.
“She was crying. She apologized. I wished her well and said I hope she gets the help he needs,” he tweeted.
Later, Reiss added that the pilot’s final words to him are that they should be on a show together and that they should write a book. Due to what he experienced, Reiss is now urging people to make donations to mental health charities.
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