A woman's bizarre meltdown was captured before takeoff aboard a flight in the United States.
What everybody is talking about is that she's pointing at someone at the back of the plane,
claiming that they are 'not real' and something awful is about to happen.
"What I'm telling you.
I'm getting the (...) off.
And there's a reason why I'm getting the (...) off and everyone can either believe it or they
can not believe it.
I don't give two (...) But I am telling you right now that (...), that (...) right there
is not real, that you can sit on this plane and you can (...) d1e, I'm not I'm not going
to."
Now, in any video, before any body language analysis, the first thing you need to think
about is, "Who is behind the camera"? and in this case it was one of the passengers
with a mobile phone.
So, we can assume that this clip is just the last part of the argument, because there must
have been a previous discussion, or altercation loud enough at the back of the plane for this
person to start recording.
In fact, there are other angles that portray the couple minutes before the incident, but
they don't give much more information than what we have already seen.
Let's start with with one of the most peculiar details of her body language.
And in this case I'm going to break my rule of going from the general to the specific,
and will jump straight to the way she points with her fingers.
Some have said that she must be a flight attendant, because that's exactly how flight attendants
point to the exits of a plane.
But I think that assessment is a bit clouded by the fact that this is happening inside
a plane.
Because pointing with two fingers, index and middle, is something that some people do as
a polite gesture, as pointing with just one finger could be rude.
If you have been to Disney parks, for example, you might have noticed that people that work
there point with two fingers.
Some have even suggested more disturbing meanings, such as picking up this one frame and comparing
it to the image of Baphomet, a goat-headed pagan idol, which has the exact same gesture
of pointing upwards and downwards with two fingers.
The meaning in that case is metaphysical, which is 'As above, so below', but I think
that's stretching too much what was going on with the gestures of this woman.
I mean, not gonna lie, the Baphomet thing is an interesting observation, but cherry
picking one frame usually is way too specific to reach a solid conclusion.
But she also points with just one finger, which... is even more confusing.
Because when someone is used to pointing with two fingers as a polite gesture, they usually
are so used to do it automatically that it takes a great deal of stress to break the
habit.
At the same time, if body language suggests that the person is pointing, you need to address
what is that 'something' the person is pointing at.
And I noticed that the woman's argument is focused on the flight attendants.
When she's walking to the front of the plane, she is talking to someone directly in front
of her that we cannot see.
We assume that she's talking to a flight attendant who is beyond this partition, and we cannot
see.
But when she turns around, and she's making all these claims, that she's not going to
be on that flight, for... reasons, she's yelling straight ahead, at the flight attendants on
the back of the plane.
There is no sign that, if she thought that there was something odd with the plane, or
a weird guy next to her, and the flight was in some kind of danger, she was not interested
in giving a warning to the other passengers.
So, that's how you can tell she's completely focused on herself.
Not necessarily bad, but that is not normal human nature.
We are gregarious, so the norm is that if we detect some kind of danger and we are in
a group, and in this case it's a very tight group, since you're inside a plane about to
take off, it would be human nature to warn others or at least, address your concerns
in a more general way.
To everyone.
That doesn't happen here.
So she's focused on herself and what she allegedly saw.
But...
what is really going on? and for that, it's important to listen to her voice.
We have no way of establishing a body language baseline or what's her usual body language,
because we don't have footage of this woman in a non-stressful situation, so we will have
to assume that, whatever she's going through, it's going to be reflected on her voice, in
one way or another.
"I am telling you right now that (...), that (...) right there is not real, that you can
sit on this plane and you can (...) d1e, I'm not I'm not going to."
High pitched voices can be a signal of distress, because when we are under a threatening situation,
the pitch of our voices, for both men and women, goes up.
The sound is more acute, and this is because higher frequency sounds have longer reach,
so that way we can warn more of our peers at longer distances.
At the same time, HEARING a higher pitched voice, or scream, puts us on warning mode,
and lower pitched voices are more soothing.
Again, we are talking about what happens when you're extremely distressed.
Your voice pitch will go up, regardless of your natural voice tone.
What tells me that there is real distress in here is the way her voice shakes.
And voice usually shakes because of labored or heavy breathing, in which the person is
trying to get more oxygen for being in fight or flight mode.
But what I find strange is that she looks way more angry than distressed.
Like she's angry at something, rather than scared of something.
And I don't see any traces of hand or body shaking, or head shaking, which are normal
when a person is distressed.
Your muscles become tense and produce this shaky behavior.
You can try it for yourself, you tense your muscles and you'll notice that it's impossible
to keep your arms or body perfectly still.
That is not present here, which is quite confusing.
And there are other signals that reinforce the idea that she was more angry than scared.
Notice that she leans into the direction she's talking.
We already know that it was the flight attendants at the back.
This leaning towards the people she's talking to, is more a threatening gesture than a defensive
gesture.
If a person is scared, the general body language would be more defensive, rather than threatening.
And there is one facial emotion tip that also reinforces the notion that she was more pissed
off than anything else.
And it is her blinking.
Sadly, we don't have a continuous shot of her, because when she points at the back of
the plane, the guy with the camera pans to the back at the same time.
But it's odd enough that in the 15 seconds of footage that we see her yelling, she doesn't
blink.
Not even one time.
When someone is fearful, or defensive, or under severe stress, The blinking rate usually
goes up.
Blinking helps us understand what is going on around us.
It's an internal mechanism to assess our environment.
But when a person is on the offensive, or ready to attack, the blinking will go down
because the brain needs as much information as it can gather from the outside, to measure
any threats.
And talking about her eyes, I'm sure your intuition picked this up but couldn't really
say what was off with them.
There's no expression.
No terror, no angst, no fear, nothing.
That absence of emotion in the eyes, mixed with the rest of her body language, can also
be a signal of concealed anger.
So, both the body language, very specific towards the flight attendants, the leaning
into their direction and the lack of blinking tells me that she was more angry than anything.
Also, did you notice that nobody was trying to calm her down, or reach out to her?
It's because everyone's intuition was firing up and telling them that this woman was more
enraged than anxious.
If a woman, or a man, is distressed, empathy will kick in and at least one or two people
are going to try to ask them what happened or try to comfort them.
But no, these people knew better.
They sensed this was not it.
Well, last but not least: her words.
She says "That...
MF right there is not real, and you can sit on this plane and you can die with them or
not, I'm not going to".
So, this is a bit confusing.
In the same sentence she talks about one guy, and then she talks about them, and she claims
that the guy is not... real?
what is that supposed to mean?
Of course, this is the internet and we also have misleading videos of pranksters who claim
to have seen some kind of lizard man or the plane, and people believed it, even if they
explicitly stated that it was a joke to see how gullible people were, or people posting
alleged videos of the 'not real guy' when this was proven to be not the same flight,
but one year ago.
Because, you know.
Internet.
I cannot say that this could be a psychotic episode.
The clip is too short and we don't have a body language baseline.
What I can say is that this doesn't look like someone who's scared for her life, but instead,
someone who's really angry at something or someone.
Either way, I would like to know what do you think about this, in the comments.
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