A WOMAN who fell asleep on her flight was horrified to wake up alone and locked inside the empty passenger plane. Tiffani Adams was on her way home to Toronto after visiting a friend in Quebec when “one of the best weekends I’ve ever had” turned into a nightmare. She woke up in a cold, […]
A WOMAN who fell asleep on her flight was horrified to wake up alone and locked inside the empty passenger plane.
Tiffani Adams was on her way home to Toronto after visiting a friend in Quebec when “one of the best weekends I’ve ever had” turned into a nightmare.
She woke up in a cold, pitch black Air Canada jet a few hours after it landed at Toronto International Airport when she realised she had been left sleeping on the plane.
Ms Adams shared her terrifying ordeal on Facebook on June 19.
In a post she said: “I think I’m having a bad dream.
“When my seat an inch back or my tray down flight crew take notice but yet you missed a person still strapped into her seat and just all go on home?!?!”
Ms Adams described the harrowing experience as she was unable to recharge her phone while stuck inside the parked aircraft, meaning she could’t call anyone for help.
She said: “I fell asleep probably less than halfway through my short 1.5 hour flight.
“I wake up around midnight (few hours after flight landed) freezing cold still strapped in my seat in complete darkness (I’m talking pitch black) as someone with and anxiety disorder as is I can tell you how terrifying this was.”
Ms Adams continued: “I’m trying to focus on my breathing and control my panic attack while I attempt to charge my phone by plugging into every USB port I could find..no luck bc when they shut the aircraft down there is no power whatsoever I now have to use washroom and that’s also no picnic when you can’t see a thing and are tryin to keep yourself calm..since I can’t charge my phone to call for help I’m full on panicking bc I want off this nightmare asap.”
She was left to fumble about the aircraft to tr and find a way for alert someone she was still onboard.
Ms Adams eventually found a flashlight in the cockpit, before opening one of the plane’s doors.
The woman was dangling her legs 40 or 50 feet above the pavement when she flashed the light at distant ground crews until someone driving a luggage truck saw her and came to the rescue.
She said: “When I see the luggage cart driving towards me I am literally dangling my legs out of the plane. He is in shock asking how the heck they left me on the plane.
“I’m wondering the same (when my seat an inch back or my tray down flight crew take notice but yet you missed a person still strapped into her seat and just all go on home?!?!”
Air Canada officials gave her a ride home and have been in contact with her since, but Ms Adams is still recovering from the ordeal.
She said: “I haven’t got much sleep since the reoccurring night terrors and waking up anxious and afraid I’m alone locked up someplace dark.”
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