Passenger on crashed US Airways flight snaps selfie
Mar 13, 2014, 11:34 PM | Updated: Mar 14, 2014, 5:12 pm
Someone is going to get a few likes and retweets.
After Flight 1702 from Philadelphia to Fort Lauderdale. Fla. blew a tire and crashed during departure, passenger and Twitter user @han_horan snapped a selfie with the plane in the background.
so yup pic.twitter.com/2WuLUWzpND
— skip (@han_horan) March 13, 2014
Numerous media outlets retweeted the photo shortly after it was posted and the user, who only identifies herself as “skip,” gained about 200 followers in a matter of minutes.
The photo began going viral instantly, with one Twitter user posting a selfie of the selfie. It received more than 1,000 retweets in under an hour.
No one was injured in the crash and all passengers were booked on later flights.