Note to all Samsung Galaxy Note7 users (because yes,Devil in Miss Jones 2 (1982) in HD apparently there are still some of you out there): Nobody wants your explosion-prone phones on the plane.
On Tuesday, that stance was again made clear by a dramatic Virgin Airlines flight drama that almost turned into a full-blown 3 a.m. diversion.
SEE ALSO: Samsung's Black Pearl Galaxy S7 Edge is now officialThe story was told by the tweets of passenger Lucas Wojciechowski, a software engineer according to his Twitter bio.
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He was flying on Virgin America Flight 358 from San Francisco to Boston, when a Wi-Fi network called "Samsung Galaxy Note7_1097" was first spotted, according to BBC News.
The captain reportedly made threats to search the entire plane and just divert the flight completely unless the offending device was found.
Open my laptop on the plane and notice a Galaxy Note 7 wifi hotspot https://t.co/y1csn9gOsZ pic.twitter.com/9Z5IJULuPs
— Lucas Wojciechowski (@lucaswoj) December 20, 2016
About an hour into the flight there's an announcement "If anyone has a Galaxy Note 7, please press your call button"
— Lucas Wojciechowski (@lucaswoj) December 20, 2016
Apparently the plane is going to have to get diverted & searched if nobody fesses up soon 😬
— Lucas Wojciechowski (@lucaswoj) December 20, 2016
"I don't know if you've ever been diverted at 3am... Let me tell you, it is terrible. There is nothing open in the terminal. Nothing."
— Lucas Wojciechowski (@lucaswoj) December 20, 2016
However, after all was said and done in this particular plane saga, it turns out things weren't so dramatic. There actually wasn't a Samsung Galaxy Note 7 aboard the plane. Someone just thought it'd be a good idea to name their Wi-Fi that and, you know, just stir the pot a bit. Still, subsequent flights were reportedly delayed nonetheless.
"Ladies and gentlemen, we found the device. Luckily only the name of the device was changed to 'Galaxy Note 7'. It was not a GN7."
— Lucas Wojciechowski (@lucaswoj) December 20, 2016
The U.S. Department of Transportation called for an emergency ban on Samsung Galaxy Note 7s on all U.S. planes in October -- a restriction also supported by the Federal Aviation Administration and the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration.
Mashablehas reached out to Virgin America for more information about this specific incident.
There's been a lot of plane drama lately, from someone reportedly yelling at Ivanka Trump aboard a JetBlue flight Thursday to the forced removal of YouTuber Adam Salah from a Delta flight Wednesday, in a situation he called discriminatory. Saleh said he was targeted for speaking Arabic, while Delta insisted that he and his friend were "disruptive" and showing "provocative behavior."
