Russian flight delayed when passenger freaks out after ‘seeing’ ghosts of Wagner Group mercenaries on plane

Cease the aircraft, there’s ghosts aboard!

A person aboard a Russian S7 Airways flight was escorted off the aircraft after allegedly freaking out when he noticed ghosts of Wagner Group mercenaries aboard, in response to native stories.

The person, recognized solely as Vitaly, 39, by Russian outlet’s Baza and Mash, was seen in a viral video Thursday screaming on a aircraft set to depart the St. Petersburg-bound flight from Novosibirsk.

“Cease. Cease the takeoff. I’m not kidding,” the shops translated the person saying. “Cease the takeoff. Do it quick. Cease the take off shortly. Do it quick. I can see. Cease. Cease the takeoff. Make a cease.”

Anton Gerashchenko, adviser to the minister of Inner Affairs of Ukraine, shared the video on X, previously often called Twitter, noting that the passenger begged the flight crew to not take off as a result of he noticed “three ghosts of Wagner mercenaries who had been watching him.”

The video has been seen greater than 300,000 occasions.

The Wagner mercenaries had been a part of Russia’s personal army power that was put on pause following its failed Yevgeny Prigozhin-led mutiny in June.

“The crew couldn’t get him to settle down. Ultimately, the person was taken away by police and brought to a psychiatric hospital,” Gerashchenko added, which was additionally relayed by Baza.

Baza famous that the person appeared composed throughout check-in and boarding procedures accompanied by his mom, however abruptly jumped out of his seat throughout taxiing.

His outburst triggered the flight to be delayed for 2 hours, the Russian shops added.

S7 Airways didn’t instantly reply to The Submit’s request for remark.

The case is harking back to Tiffany Gomas’ viral freak out aboard an American Airways flight final month, the place she was filmed yelling a couple of “not actual” passenger.

The weird meltdown featured Gomas yelling: “I don’t give two f–ks, however I’m telling you proper now — that motherf–ker again there’s NOT actual.”

Gomas has since claimed that the rant was sparked by an argument she was having over wi-fi headphones.