Plane passengers recently scheduled to depart Israel’s Ben Gurion Airport for Turkey had their travel plans waylaid by jackasses toying around with Apple’s AirDrop feature. Multiple outlets report that at least 166 passengers received a photo request on their iPhones shortly before takeoff, only to get multiple creepy images sent their way — including plane crash pictures. One was of a Turkish Airline jet that crashed in Amsterdam in 2009, killing nine people, and another of a 2013 Asiana Airlines crash in San Francisco that killed three others.
After many on board alerted flight staff to what sounds like a deleted scene from Final Destination, the airplane pilots understandably decided to return to the terminal and evacuate everyone for safety’s sake. As everyone was re-screened and luggage searched, an Airports Authority spokesman made it clear to reporters that this was “not a cyberattack,” and that the images’ source clearly originated from “inside the plane.” According to the Israeli publication, Kan News, nine people were questioned in regards to the situation.
