Plane Passenger Sat Underneath ‘Unidentified Liquid’ Dripping From Bag

An airplane passenger has shared her unsettling in-flight experience during a trip from San Jose International Airport to John Wayne Airport.

In a video on TikTok, Lisa captured how she was seated beneath a leaking bag for the entire duration of the Southwest Airlines flight. Sparking a conversation about the challenges passengers face in the air, she expressed her upset.

Newsweek reached out to Southwest Airlines via email and phone for comment on the incident. The passenger later said that she was given a voucher to cover a free flight after she complained.

Lisa, who prefers to remain anonymous, told Newsweek: “They gave me paper towels, but the flight attendant’s reaction was as if I was a nuisance for asking if they could do something about it. She said she couldn’t move the bags because we were mid-air, and the flight was full, so I couldn’t move to another seat.”

The video showed how the liquid dripped from the bag, dropping onto the seat below. Lisa recalled how it fell onto the paper towels, eventually drying to a troubling brown color.

Lisa’s discomfort persisted throughout the journey, leaving her pants soaked and any attempts to find a resolution futile.

“I wanted to share the TikTok because I knew it had a chance of going viral,” Lisa explained. While the focus of the video was on Lisa’s uncomfortable flight, it helped her draw attention to her work as a co-founder of a fashion tech startup that utilizes AI to digitize wardrobes.

Airplanes are often places where people find themselves confronted by discomfort or unusual situations. A survey by The Vacationer identified the most annoying behaviors from people on airplanes, with kicking the back of the seat and drunk and disruptive passengers topping the list.

Meanwhile, 39 percent of travelers expressed their frustration at people who eat foul smelling foods and 29 percent were irritated by passengers who board or deplane out of turn.

With 4.2 million views on the video, people were stunned by the woman’s experience and headed to the comments to react.

“I’m non-confrontational but I’d be confronting,” said one commenter. While another wrote: “The scene I would make! Absolutely not, y’all are either tossing that bag or I am!”

Others had their own unusual and shocking stories from flying. Like one viewer who said: “Once on a flight some guy put a cardboard box of lobsters on ice in the overhead and the fishy juice leaked all over my carry on.”

Meanwhile some viewers could not understand the situation.

One said: “As a former flight attendant we would instantly ask whose bag that is and not allow this to continue to drip,” while another commenter wrote: “[I] had this happen once the flight attendant took the bags out of the overhead and cleaned up the random liquid in the overhead and cleaned the seat.”