Video posted to TikTok shows a woman ranting as she leaves an American Airlines flight prior to departure in Dallas, yelling that she needs off because there’s a passenger on board who “is not real.” And, she says, anyone that stays on board will die alongside that passenger.

A reposting of the original video is garnering millions of views under the hashtag #drunkonaplane although it doesn’t seem that the woman is drunk. The person sharing the video notes that,

• The entire aircraft was forced to deplane
  
• The woman wasn’t arrested
  
• Was allowed “back through security” after the incident, presumably being able to rebook onto a later flight

Shared by “texaskansasnnn” on Sunday, it’s not clear which flight this happened on. The claim is that this led to a three hour delay. There wasn’t an obvious good match while reviewing Dallas – Wichita segments, although perhaps some of you will sleuth the possibilities. Sussing out the aircraft tail number would be interesting. Maybe it’s haunted!

Here’s what happened, though note that the video’s language is very much not safe for work and is not even safe for work from home. If you have family around for the 4th of July holiday, it’s likely not safe for them either:

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I’m not sure what to say about this American Airlines passenger thinking it’s someone else that is a hallucination.

In Fight Club Tyler Durden isn’t real. Neither is Snuffleupagus in Sesame Street – at least until the producers decided to make him visible to everyone on the show and not just Big Bird. Perhaps that’s what this woman is hoping for here, an imaginary character that suddenly everyone else can see to prove that she’s sane.

In literature, imaginary characters are often used to highlight an internal conflict of the character envisioning them, or to show that character’s psychological challenges. Ironically, this device seems to be used on American Airlines flights to accomplish this as well.

(HT: Live And Let’s Fly)