Yet Another Airline Incident: United Flight Turns Chaotic as Passenger Screams ‘F*ing Cts’ at Crew

A viral flight video from the United States has taken social media by storm, showing a foul-mouthed passenger being removed from a United Airlines flight after she hurled abuse at a flight attendant during a long delay at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey. The dramatic moment was captured by a fellow traveller and posted in a TikTok viral video on November 10, according to the New York Post.

The passenger who filmed the incident wrote, “This woman went absolutely nuts and we had to return back to the gate to remove her,” referring to the meltdown that forced the aircraft to turn around. The clip shows the blonde woman climbing out of her window seat just as a flight attendant walks down the aisle. Although the crew member stops briefly, she doesn’t appear to confront the woman or say anything.

But the passenger immediately lashed out. “I’m getting up. I’m allowed to stand up,” she snapped, frustrated by the long wait. “When you keep us on the tarmac for an hour, I’m allowed to stand up.” The crew member calmly replied that it was “not a problem,” but the woman escalated further, shouting a series of expletives and slurs—an outburst that stunned nearby travellers watching the United Airlines incident unfold.

Mid-rant, she suddenly noticed a phone recording her. She went quiet for a moment, but the tension didn’t ease. According to the witness who shared the viral flight video, the journey had already been a nightmare: the flight to Charleston, South Carolina, was delayed for three hours before boarding, followed by another hour and a half on the tarmac. “Everyone was just exhausted at that point,” the TikTok user said. “You could feel the collective frustration. And then this woman just loses it and starts screaming the c-word over and over again.”

Other passengers tried to calm her down, but she continued spiraling. The TikTokker said the woman even told people to kill themselves and launched into a dramatic monologue about how difficult her life was—turning the already-tense situation into a full-blown airline passenger meltdown .

Fearing she might get physical, crew members seated some of the “biggest guys on the plane” next to her as a precaution. Eventually, the disruptive passenger had to be escorted off the aircraft, forcing yet another delay for those already trapped in the lengthy Newark Airport delay saga.