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A passenger who was getting some shut eye on arecent Air Canada flightwoke up to find herself in a nightmare scenario.
“When my seat [is] an inch back or my tray downflight crew take noticebut yet you missed a person still strapped into her seat and all go on home?!?!” she wrote.
A representative for Air Canada tells PEOPLE the airline is “still reviewing this matter” and has “no additional details to share, but we have followed up with the customer and remain in contact with her.”
O’Brien explained that she tried to FaceTime Noel-Dale as soon as she awoke, but her phone’s battery died.
She also notes that she has an “anxiety disorder” that exacerbated the frightening ordeal. “I can tell you how terrifying this was.”
O’Brien then said she made her way up the cockpit where she attempted to use the plane’s communication system, but the radio and walkie talkies didn’t work. Eventually she found a flashlight and tried to use it to signal for help.
“I’m making some flashy sos signals out the windows hoping someone sees me,” she wrote.
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Using the flashlight, she claims she was able to get the main cabin door open, only to find herself 40 to 50 feet above the ground.
She writes that she was hanging out of the door trying to get the airport ground crew’s attention. Finally, after “literally dangling” her legs out of the plane, she saw a crew member on a luggage cart driving toward her.
“He is in shock asking how the heck they left me on the plane,” she wrote. “I’m wondering the same.”
During calls with the airline on Monday and Tuesday, she claims representatives Air Canada asked her to recount her bizarre experience and told her “they will do an investigation bc they have checks in place that should prevent people from being locked on the aircraft at night,” she wrote.
Ten days after the incident, O’Brien said she has been unable to sleep because she has been having “reoccurring night terrors” and keeps “waking up anxious and afraid I’m alone locked up some place dark.”
source: people.com
