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Watch: Pilot Threatens To End Flight Over Airline Passengers Sending Him Nudes Via iPhone AirDrop

<p>An <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;dev&period;theshaderoom&period;com&sol;&quest;s&equals;airplane&amp&semi;post&lowbar;type&equals;post" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener"><strong>airplane<&sol;strong><&sol;a> pilot threatened to end a commercial flight after warning passengers to stop sending him nudes via the iPhone AirDrop feature&comma; according to a hilarious video posted to <strong>TikTok<&sol;strong>&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The pilot&comma; who was not identified but works for Southwest Airlines&comma; was helming a flight to Cabo San Lucas&comma; Mexico when he took to the plane&&num;8217&semi;s intercom and told passengers he would be returning the craft to its departure gate if they didn&&num;8217&semi;t stop sending the racy photos to him&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;So here’s the deal&comma; if this continues while we’re on the ground&comma; I’m going to have to pull back to the gate&comma; everybody’s going to have to get off&comma; we’re going to have to get security involved and &lbrack;your&rsqb; vacation is going to be ruined&comma;” the pilot warned in a viral clip of the incident&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>iPhone users can send digital files like photos through AirDrop to other Apple products in close proximity&comma; without the need for Wi-Fi or cellular data&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><amp-tiktok data-src&equals;"7135824670842211630" width&equals;"325" height&equals;"575"><&sol;amp-tiktok><&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;">Viral Clip Of Pilot Warning Passengers To Stop AirDropping Nudes Garners Nearly Three Million Views In A Week<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>The clip has already garnered over 2&period;7 million views by Wednesday after being shared by TikTok user &commat;TeighMars last week&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;So you folks&comma; whatever that AirDrop thing is&comma; quit sending naked pictures&comma; and let’s get yourself to Cabo&comma;” ordered the pilot&period;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>The airlines told the <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;nypost&period;com&sol;2022&sol;08&sol;30&sol;pilot-threatens-to-end-flight-due-to-airdrop-nudes-quit-sending-naked-pictures&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener"><strong>New York Post<&sol;strong><&sol;a> that &&num;8220&semi;the safety&comma; security and wellbeing of customers and employees is &lpar;our&rpar; highest priority at all times&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>&&num;8220&semi;The safety&comma; security and wellbeing of Customers and Employees is the Southwest Team’s highest priority at all times&period; When made aware of a potential problem&comma; our employees address issues to support the comfort of those traveling with us&period;”<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;97451" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-97451" style&equals;"width&colon; 1024px" class&equals;"wp-caption alignnone"><img class&equals;"size-full wp-image-97451" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;dev&period;theshaderoom&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2022&sol;08&sol;GettyImages-860631328&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"1024" height&equals;"676" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-97451" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">&lpar;Photo by Robert Alexander&sol;Getty Images&rpar;<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<h3 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;">Social Media Reacts To Pilot&&num;8217&semi;s Warning To Naughty Passengers<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>Social media had a field day with the trending topic&comma; with many supporting the pilot&&num;8217&semi;s decision to shut down the tomfoolery&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Pilot had &OpenCurlyQuote;Don’t make me turn this plane around&excl;’ energy Love it&excl;” one person posted followed by a series of laughing emojis&period;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>However&comma; not everyone was as amused with the passengers&&num;8217&semi; stunt&comma; with another person commenting &&num;8220&semi;people need to stop doing this stuff on airplanes&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The Captain is in charge&period; He gave a fair warning&period; People need to stop doing this stuff on airplanes&comma;” wrote another commentator&period;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>The Post reported that last week&&num;8217&semi;s incident is one of at least two recent occurrences where someone has AirDropped sexually explicit photos onto a Southwest Airlines flight&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In June&comma; 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