A heated incident unfolded aboard a United Airlines flight when a woman erupted into a profanity-filled tirade after waiting over an hour on the tarmac, according to eyewitness reports.
The woman, whose identity remains unknown, was on a flight scheduled to depart from New Jersey’s Newark International Airport on November 9. This event occurred just days ahead of the conclusion of the longest government shutdown in U.S. history. Frustrated, she launched into a verbal assault targeting airline staff and fellow travelers.
Described as a white blonde woman wearing a high-slit dress and a leather jacket, she was seated by the window on a flight destined for Charleston International Airport in South Carolina. Her frustration boiled over as she repeatedly shouted expletives, including the word “c***.”
Her voice escalated with each outburst as she yelled, “C***, c***, c***, f***ing a**holes,” and “F***ing b****,” drawing attention from those around her.
The two women seated beside her appeared visibly unsettled and were instructed by a female flight attendant to leave their seats.
The irate passenger noticed the movement of her seatmates and attempted to stand as well, but the flight attendant quickly intervened, preventing her from following suit.
‘I’m getting up! Yeah, I’m allowed to stand up,’ the furious woman told the flight attendant as she scrunched her face.
‘Yeah sure -,’ the employee said just before the woman cut her off.
A blonde woman was seen repeatedly shouting a vulgar slur at airline crew members and passengers while on board a United Airlines flight on November 9 in Newark, New Jersey
The unnamed woman is seen getting close to a female flight attendants face as she cursed and screamed after waiting on the tarmac for over and hour
‘When you keep us on the tarmac for an hour, yeah I’m allowed to stand up,’ she interjected before looking down at her phone.
The flight attendant then told the woman: ‘Not a problem.’
‘Not a problem at all, yeah. Really not a problem for me to want to f***ing stand. F***ing c****,’ she added.
The woman then turned her attention directly at the camera recording her before appearing to do the same with her phone.
Everyone watched, seemingly astonished by what was coming out of the woman’s mouth, including another female passenger, who goes by HaleyRose99 on TikTok.
Haley, who watched the scenes unfold as a woman next to her recorded, shared the clip to her profile before posting another that explained the incident in detail.
‘This was truly one of the wildest travel experiences I have ever had,’ Haley said in a follow-up video to the wild moment she witnessed.
Prior to getting on the plane, Haley said the flight was delayed three hours – something not uncommon during the government shutdown when air traffic was hit hard by staffing-related issues.
‘And we sit there for an hour-and-a-half, and just when we think we’re about to take off, the pilot says we’re number 30 in line and we have another hour-and-a-half wait,’ she recalled.
Before removing the woman, flight staff made sure the two other females sitting in her row got up and out of the way
Haley said she quickly noticed everyone’s ‘collective exhaustion’ from the bad news, adding that at exactly that moment, the woman ‘just loses it.’
She then described how a woman tried to get the angry passenger to calm down, but that only made matters worse.
‘Then she completely loses it and is like telling her to unalive herself, saying you don’t know my life, you don’t know where I have to be tomorrow – and she’s just going crazy, still screaming that word,’ Haley said, referring to the crass curse word the woman kept repeating.
The witness also recalled a man speaking up and stating that he was also stressed because he had to attend his mother’s funeral the following day.
‘And that just kind of put everything into perspective for everyone. We’re all stressed, we all have our own things going on,’ Haley stated.
Once at the gate, the woman was escorted off as she made a snippy remark
After commending the flight attendants for handling the situation ‘perfectly,’ Haley said the crew had ‘the two biggest guys on the plane sit next to her’ until the plane made its way back to the gate.
Once at the gate, the woman was escorted off as she made a snippy remark, Haley said.
‘She put her sunglasses on and started going “Thank God! Thank God! Thank God!” and is like storming off the plane,’ Haley added.
Haley told the Daily Mail that just before that passenger got on the jet, she saw her drinking. It is unclear if she was under the influence of alcohol or drugs.
The Daily Mail contacted United Airlines and the Port Authority Police Department for comment.
