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Police were called to Midway Airport in Chicago on Saturday after a Southwest Airlines passenger allegedly took of her clothes and defecated on her seat. File this story as Exhibit #23,937 for why flying is the worst.
According to NBC 5 Chicago, Southwest Airlines flight 418 from Philadelphia to Chicago had to be met at the Midway Airport terminal by law enforcement and medical personnel upon landing. According to a statement from Southwest Airlines, it was for “a situation involving a customer.”
A source “with knowledge of the situation” told NBC 5 Chicago that the plane had to be taken out of service for cleaning after the woman pooped on her seat.
“Our Teams are reaching out to those onboard to apologize for the situation and any delays to their travel plans,” Southwest Airlines said in a statement. “Nothing is more important to Southwest than the safety of our customers and employees, and we appreciate the professionalism of our flight crew.”
News reports do not make clear what happened with the passenger in question. Southwest Airlines did not reply to multiple requests for comment on the incident.
Usually incident such as this occur on the notoriously awful Spirit Airlines. So this was quite out a departure for Southwest (pun intended).
Situations such as this as well as super rats, putting six-year-olds on the wrong plane, and patching up their planes with duct tape in full view of their passengers are usually more their modus operandi.
That being said, this is the second bizarre incident with a Southwest Airlines flight at Chicago’s Midway Airport in a little over a month. In March, a Southwest plane had a near-miss with jet at Midway Airport.
“The captain stated that as he approached runway 13C/31C he had thought it was runway 13R/31L,” a National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) report on the incident revealed.
“The crew followed safety procedures and the flight landed without incident,” a Southwest spokesperson said in a statement. “Nothing is more important to Southwest than the safety of our customers and employees.” If that sounds familiar, that’s because you just read the same sentence a few paragraphs above this one.