A passenger undresses on a Southwest jet at Houston Hobby, and the flight goes back to the gate
The New York Post's clip of the aborted takeoff led a day when two of its three biggest stories happened aboard airplanes.
New York PostStory of Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 1,246,199 views a day, 70 times a normal first day on this channel (17,841).
Chaos On Southwest Flight As Woman Strips, Screams At Passengers
The takeoff never happened. A Southwest Airlines plane was taxiing out of Houston's Hobby Airport when a passenger took off her clothes and began screaming at the people around her. The crew stopped, turned the Boeing 737 around and brought it back to the gate. According to the video's description, police removed the woman and took her to a hospital for evaluation.
The Post's short report on the scene passed 600,000 views in its first eight hours. A new upload on this channel usually draws fewer than twenty thousand in a whole first day.
The comment section is not mainly about the passenger. It is about the state of flying. Many viewers bring up Spirit Airlines and joke that the budget carrier's crowd has moved over to Southwest, a pointed jab at an airline that has built its name in Texas, with Hobby as its Houston home. Others look back on flying in the 1970s through the 1990s. A few ask the question underneath it all: why do airports and airplanes seem to bring out the strangest behavior in people?
The Southwest clip was not the Post's only story set in a cabin. Its next-biggest start was the Flydubai flight on which the captain was attacked in the cockpit and later praised by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. In third place was Brazil's first-round presidential vote, with Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva facing Flávio Bolsonaro. With all three moving at once, the channel's daily views ran about two-thirds above their usual level.
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aaah I miss flying in the 70s - 90s....
@RONALDB62See it on YouTubeI remember when we only got peanuts on flights.
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- Channel
- New York Post
- Subscribers
- 2,580,000
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 21,830,744
- Channel views, pace per day
- 4,588,244 (on a normal day: 2,789,561)
- Video published
- October 4, 2026
- Video views so far
- 620,271 (less than a day online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 1,246,199
The numbers
The Southwest clip started far ahead of anything the channel usually posts, and two other stories from the same day also ran well above the usual pace.
