Southwest passenger says she was stuck under a leak for almost an entire flight

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A Southwest Airlines passenger has stated she was stuck under a leak for practically her complete flight.

In a viral TikTook video, Sophie Shaw – the founding father of synthetic intelligence firm Azuryne – shared footage of a bag leaking some “unidentified liquid” on her from the airplane cabin. However, she was unable to maneuver her seat as a result of the cabin crew had knowledgeable her there was no empty house on the flight from San Jose to Santa Ana, California.

“POV: unidentified liquid drips from someone else’s bag on you the entire flight because the flight attendant says she can’t move you or the bag,” the 24-year-old wrote over the video.

The clip confirmed some mysterious droplets splattering onto the passenger’s seat from an overhead hole. In an interview with the New York Post, she defined that crew members had tried to cease the leak with paper towels earlier than take-off, however to no avail. “They put some paper towels in the locker, so I guess they’d tried to fix something but they couldn’t,” Shaw recounted.

When Shaw tried to get some assist from one of many flight attendants to maneuver the leaky bag, she stated that the flight attendant she had flagged down “wasn’t sympathetic whatsoever” to her plight.

“I pressed the button and told the flight attendant but I thought she looked at me as if I was a nuisance,” Shaw recalled. “I think it should have been her job to make a bigger deal out of it but she just said the flight was too full and she couldn’t move the luggage.”

Shaw claimed that she was pressured to take a seat beneath the leak for the whole lot of her hour-and-a-half flight. “I tried to shove myself to one half of the seat to avoid the dripping but my pants were completely soaked and I was basically sitting in a puddle,” the San Francisco native stated.

To make issues worse, turbulence triggered the droplets to splatter in all places, and reportedly even led to Shaw’s footwear being soaked. She wasn’t certain what precisely the liquid was, which triggered her to really feel immensely “uncomfortable” all through the entire ordeal.

“It was really disgusting to sit through and I was feeling pretty grossed out the entire time so I literally just closed my eyes and listened to music to try and block it out,” she stated. “I think they should have offered to clean it up themselves at the bare minimum and rearranged the luggage to try and stop the drip.”

After the Azuryne founder documented her expertise on TikTook, she obtained greater than 3.5m views on the platform. Many viewers within the remark part have been appalled on her behalf.

“The way I’d be making this everyone’s problem,” one particular person wrote, whereas one other added: “The scene I would make! Absolutely not, y’all are either tossing that bag or I am!”

Some folks instructed that the cabin crew ought to have merely made an announcement, asking passengers who the bag belonged to. A former flight attendant commented: “We would instantly ask who’s bag that is and not allow this to continue to drip.”

In a follow-up remark, Shaw shared that Southwest Airlines had responded to her criticism and coated the price of her subsequent flight. “Update they responded immediately and gave me a voucher that’ll cover a free flight!!” she stated.

The Independent has contacted Shaw and Southwest Airlines for remark.