Does a viral video on social media authentically document a passenger who threw a tantrum over not getting a seat in first class, wouldn't get off and had to be dragged from the plane? No, that's not true: The "passenger" is an actor who has appeared in multiple social media videos, playing a flight attendant, a passenger, a store clerk and other roles. The video originally appeared on the "TRUE CRIME Law Talk" Facebook page, where a series of staged confrontation videos appear.
A cropped version of the original video appeared in an April 29, 2025 X post (archived here) on the @KathleenWinche3 account under the title "Omg! 😱 This is a lunatic!" It opened:
Girl won't get off the plane
THE GIRL ASKED FOR FIRST CLASS SEATS BUT DIDN'T PAY
GOT A LESSON
Here is what the post looked like on X at the time this fact check was written:the account of
(Source: X.com screenshot taken by Lead Stories.)
That video was clipped from a higher-resolution version posted April 13, 2025 post on the TRUE CRIME Law Talk Facebook page (archived here), where the video included a narrator's face and other images in addition to the scenes of an out-of-control passenger having to be dragged from a plane:
(Source: Facebook.com screenshot taken by Lead Stories.)
Reviewing the TRUE CRIME Law Talk page, Lead Stories observed multiple skits in which the same actor plays, for example, a calm airline passenger (archived here), a boutique clerk (archived here), the berserk passenger (archived here), a woman seeking to adopt a child (archived here), and the receptionist in a doctor's office (archived here):
(Source: Facebook.com screenshots taken by Lead Stories and arranged in comparison graphic.)
Read more Lead Stories fact checks about TRUE CRIME Law Talk here.
