Video! Here is Youtube video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbVw7entkxg) that a woman from mainland China went insane after missing her Cathey Pacific flight to San Francisco. The incident happened in the beginning of this month.
Reuter’s take on the drama:
The middle-aged woman was seen charging at a security guard at the departure gate, before screaming “aieyyahhhhh,” at the top of her lungs in a rant that lasts about three minutes.
The woman, sprawled on the ground, was seen wailing. An elderly man traveling with her tried to pull her to her feet but she shouted in Cantonese: “I want to go, I want to go.”
Cathay Pacific said it had already closed the aircraft’s doors and had offloaded the woman’s baggage, and so was unable to allow her to board the flight to San Francisco.
I’m feeling a bit sorry for her. Hope she has already flied to USA by boardig another airliner.
Update: More details from AFP:
The footage, entitled “A woman missed her flight at the boarding gate HKIA” appears to have been shot with a mobile phone from behind the staff desk.
The woman was travelling on a Cathay Pacific flight to San Francisco on February 4, a Cathay spokeswoman told AFP.
“All passenger doors had already been closed and the crew was preparing the flight for departure,” she said.
“As the passengers had failed to show up on time, we had already offloaded their checked baggage to comply with the security requirements.”
The spokeswoman said the woman had been able to take a flight a few hours later, adding passengers are always advised to arrive at the gate no later than 20 minutes before the scheduled departure time.
“We do not know who shot the video or who posted it on the web,” she said.
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