A woman who fell asleep on an Air Canada flight from Quebec to Toronto on 9 June woke up in the dark, still buckled into her seat and freezing cold.
Tiffany O’Brien woke up with only a tiny amount of battery left on her mobile phone, but managed to phone her friend Deanna Dale and let her know where she was. According to BBC News, ‘her phone died less than a minute into the call.’ Dale then called Toronto Pearson Airport to alert them to O’Brien’s location.
A luggage cart operator found Tiffani O’Brien some time later, and said she was ‘in shock’.
Tiffani O’Brien (Tiffani Adams on Facebook) said on that she woke up ‘around midnight [a few hours after the flight had landed] freezing cold still trapped in my seat in complete darkness.’
The aircraft had been parked quite far from the terminal building and once she had managed to find a torch in the plane’s cockpit, she tried to get someone to notice her, however that failed. She then unbolted a cabin door, which was high above the ground and leant out and shone the torch from there until a luggage cart operator noticed her.
Once she had been rescued, the airline offered her a limousine and a stay in a hotel but she turned them down, preferring to go home.
‘I haven’t got much sleep since the reoccurring night terrors and waking up anxious and afraid I’m alone locked up someplace dark,’ she wrote.
Air Canada said in a statement, ‘We have followed up with the customer and remain in contact with her.
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