The ‘crazy plane lady’ has celebrated the one year anniversary of her meltdown onboard an American Airlines flight by getting on another plane.
Tiffany Gomas went viral for screaming ‘that motherf***er back there is not real’ before being escorted off the flight from Fort Worth to Orlando, Florida, in July 2023.
The Dallas marketing executive previously explained the background to the incident and said she became embroiled in a ‘little bit of an altercation’ with another passenger and ‘it spiraled out of control.’
She commemorated the anniversary by boarding another flight exactly one year on and sharing a photo of herself on X.
‘Thought it would be fun to catch a flight today, considering,’ she joked in a post which has been viewed more than a million times.
Gomas celebrated the anniversary of her meltdown on social media and said: ‘One year anni of the most embarrassing day of my life. Cheers to many more.’
She was flying to join her family on a vacation in July when she lost it on the flight due to an ‘altercation,’ which she described as ‘the worst moment’ of her entire life.
Gomas was filmed pointing to the back of the cabin and shouting: ‘I’m getting the f*** off and there’s a reason why I’m getting the f*** off and everyone can either believe it or they can not believe it.
‘I don’t give two f***s, but I am telling you right now – that motherf***er back there is not real.
‘You can sit on this plane and you can die with them or not. I’m not going to.’
But in a later interview with Inside Edition, she revealed that when she said the other passenger was ‘not real’ – she meant it as a figure of speech, meaning ‘he’s not being real’.
‘It was not my best moment … it was actually a horrible moment. Absolutely mortifying. How horribly mortifying,’ she told the ‘Pardon My Take’ podcast.
Explaining her unwillingness to talk about the issue previously she said: ‘The reason I probably haven’t come out yet is that it’s so cringe.’
When asked why she uttered the now-infamous words, which viewers took to suggest she had seen a ghost or an alien, she said, simply: ‘I literally did not see anything … It was an expression of speech.’
Instead the comment was aimed at the man with whom she was arguing with.
‘They’re making me look bat s—t … and given, I did, I did look absolutely crazy but, no — I was in my feels, needed to get off, I was highly distressed. Not a good look,’ she told the podcast.
Gomas revealed that she stayed at home for over four weeks after her crazed meltdown.
‘There’s no playbook to going viral, I’m just a normal person contrary to what people think and after this all went viral my life did change’ she explained.
The July 2 viral incident happened on Flight 1009 from Fort Worth to Orlando, Florida.
Official documents say she was not willing to leave the plane and had to be removed by American Airlines staff following the outburst, as broken by a journalist on Substack and first reported by the New York Post.
The police document states: ‘The female then started claiming the aircraft was not safe and did not want the aircraft to leave due to her believing it would not make it to its destination.
‘Due to the statements the flight attendants felt the aircraft needed to be rescreened. [The airline manager] explained that the passenger was denied boarding and they wanted her escorted to the public side.’
Passengers on the plane were forced to deplane and be screened through security again as a precaution.