Airline calls out YouTuber who hid in suitcase during flight
A famous YouTuber was reprimanded by an airline after he filmed himself crawling inside a suitcase during a one-hour flight to Sydney from Melbourne, Australia.
Adam Saleh, who calls himself a “professional idiot,” posted a video on YouTube last week, wherein his friends are shown zipping him inside a giant suitcase during their Tiger Airways flight. He filmed himself while being cramped inside the luggage and said, “I am so scared, I don’t know if I’m going to survive.”
After the flight, his friends collected him inside the bag, which was overweight at 66 kilograms. A sweaty and tired Saleh sprang up to the amusement of other airport passengers.
Unfortunately, the New York-based Youtuber might have had a bad day when Tiger Airways shaded him on Twitter. “Nice try, Adam. But definitely, [there are] a few inconsistencies with this video, namely the fact we have footage of you boarding the plane,” it fired back.
According to news.com.au, the low-cost carrier said that the airport’s automated bag drop machines can only accommodate a limit of 32 kilograms per piece, and not a 66-kg bag storing an impish online star. “Had you been in the baggage hold, by the time you arrived in Sydney you would have been a popsicle,” it said, highlighting that Saleh would have died of suffocation when he enacted his bizarre stint.
@omgAdamSaleh Nice try Adam, but definitely a few inconsistencies with this vid, namely the fact we have footage of you boarding the plane!
— Tigerair Australia (@TigerairAU) December 14, 2016
Saleh’s manager, Naz Rahman, told the news site that his talent did not board the flight inside a suitcase and he only played a prank for YouTube viewers. “It’s all for entertainment, that’s all it was. We didn’t realize it would be all in the news. He did everything abiding by the law and everything,” he said.
The clip has racked up 594,000 views as of Monday. Gianna Francesca Catolico
