---
title: "Flight Cancelled After Passengers Start Receiving Photos of Plane Crashes"
description: "Young Israelis were arrested after sending photos of deadly plane crashes to passengers on a Turkish flight headed to Istanbul. The plane aborted takeoff."
date: "2022-05-11"
modified: "2022-05-11"
authors:
  - name: "Lonnie Lee Hood"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/ahood"
url: "https://futurism.com/the-byte/flight-cancelled-photos-plane-crashes"
categories:
  - "Future Society"
tags:
  - "airplane"
  - "crash"
  - "terrorism"
  - "the digest"
---

# Flight Cancelled After Passengers Start Receiving Photos of Plane Crashes

![Young Israelis were arrested after sending photos of deadly plane crashes to passengers on a Turkish flight headed to Istanbul. The plane aborted takeoff.](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/flight-cancelled-from-runway-after-passengers-sent-photos-of-plane-crashes.png>)
*\<em\>Image: Getty/Futurism \</em\>*

## Plane Punked

A Turkish flight aborted takeoff yesterday after passengers on board starting receiving creepy photos of plane crashes on their phones.

According to [a *BBC* report](<https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-61395745>), AnadoluJet passengers with iPhones started getting AirDrop requests, which is [a pretty common prank to pull](<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljdYpeS76w4>) when you're in public with a bunch of strangers. Most of the time, though, the prank doesn't seem to threaten deadly terrorism. Horribly, the photos showed the aftermath of [a 2013 crash in San Francisco](<https://twitter.com/UNILAD/status/1524071526559059969?s=20&t=4WdQXrgkw0Zq-HhG5KL7gw>) that killed three people, as well as [a 2009 Turkish Airline](<https://twitter.com/UNILAD/status/1524071510117425153?s=20&t=4WdQXrgkw0Zq-HhG5KL7gw>) crash, [according to *Unilad*](<https://twitter.com/UNILAD/status/1524071499434545154?s=20&t=4WdQXrgkw0Zq-HhG5KL7gw>). Passengers didn't find the prank very funny and instead panicked.

"All passengers and luggage are being further examined, and the police and other security officials have opened an investigation," [airport spokesman Ofer Lefler told the outlet](<https://www.unilad.co.uk/news/flight-aborted-eerie-pictures-sent-passengers-phone-plane-crashes-20220510?source=twittermoments>).

## Childhood Trauma

There were 160 people on board the flight. Authorities detained and questioned several people, [according to a *BBC* report](<https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-61395745>). After several hours, passengers were told they could board the re-examined plane.

It's completely possible airport authorities could talk to the young people, re-examine the plane or find some other piece of evidence that leads them to believe a bomb threat really happened or was planned.

It's also possible that the unnamed individuals, whose ages we do not know, are teenagers. Teenagers [like to prank people](<https://gizmodo.com/entire-plane-evacuated-over-a-teen-s-moronic-airdrop-pr-1847352123>), and sometimes pranks just go too far.

**More on good people doing bad things:** [*Crypto Fans Are So Dumb They're Clicking .Exe Files Disguised as an NFT*](<https://futurism.com/nfts-malware-risk>)