It doesn’t take much effort to stir a panic in an age of hypersensitivity, especially on an airplane. Turkish Airlines flight TK79 was making a typical flight from Istanbul to San Francisco when a mobile phone was discovered on an empty seat in the rear end of the plane. After none of the passengers claimed ownership of the phone, the cabin crew concluded that the cell phone must be a bomber’s detonator, possibly owned by an ISIS terrorist thug.
Or at least, that is what cabin crew members were required to treat the situation as. Just two hours into the flight, the plane had to make an emergency landing in Warsaw because of the mysterious phone. In the meantime, the crew members were able to give the passengers a full-blown anxiety attack by following strict protocol. A baby began to cry; a mother burst into tears.