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Gibbering, shrieking, cursing, walking on seat armrests and sometimes hanging from the overhead lockers, a woman’s complete freak-out on a flight this week makes diverting, if bizarre, viewing.

The woman’s weird flip-out happened on a US domestic flight headed for Detroit, Michigan, according to an account in the New York Post. Little more is known about it. The clip speaks for itself, as the woman climbs on top of seats, screaming and cursing.

“Bitches we’re going to f–k all night,” she repeatedly yells, while banging on the overhead lockers, her in-flight surgical mask hanging beneath her chin like a grotesque pantomime beard.

The clip, which can be viewed on the World Star Hip Hop site, where it was placed on Sunday, shows the woman gyrating and screaming, then mounting two armrests in the aisle.

The clip does at least demonstrate that flights are continuing in the US – even if punctuated by occasional incidents of madcap in-flight disruption. Is the pandemic to blame? Drugs? The coming US election? General craziness?

The woman is eventually escorted to the front of the plane by cabin crew and a passenger.

Some people compared her behaviour to the exorcism scene from the 1973 horror classic The Exorcist.

While a few viewers may consider the performance to be one of the worst examples of in-flight disruption ever, it doesn’t really come close. That distinction, worst-ever behaviour during a flight, is generally bestowed on the epic gross misconduct of a New York investment banker on a Buenos Aires-to-New York flight in 1996.

The banker, aged 58, shouted obscenities and screamed for more alcohol. Finally, when he didn’t receive the alcohol, he assaulted a flight attendant, walked up to the first-class cabin, removed his trousers, vaulted on top of a first-class food service trolley and defecated there in plain view of passengers and cabin crew.

The banker in that 1996 incident was later sentenced to two years’ probation and 300 hours of community service. He was fined US$5000 and ordered to pay more than US$50,000 in restitution to United Airlines, and to reimburse fellow passengers for the price of their tickets.

Written by Peter Needham