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Leanna Perry Plane Incident, also known as Woman Causes Scene On Southwest Airlines, refers to a viral video featuring a woman identified as New York-based artist Leanna Perry having a public freakout on a Southwest Airlines plane leaving from LaGuardia Airport in New York to Kansas City in mid-June 2025. In a video first posted to TikTok early on June 17th, the dark-haired woman can be seen lashing out at her fellow passenger, whom she calls a "fat ass bitch," before grabbing the passenger by her hair. Southwest Airlines attendants and fellow passengers can be seen trying to restrain an increasingly incoherent Perry and trying to get her to release the woman's hair. The video was originally posted by TikToker @leahkay1010 and reposted on sites like Twitter / X and Instagram in subsequent days. Tabloids like the New York Post uncovered Perry's name soon after the story went viral, identifying her as a New York City-based visual artist who has worked with brands like Maybelline and Betsey Johnson.

Origin

On June 17th, 2025, TikToker^[3] @amandawetterer posted a series of videos showing a dark-haired woman wearing an Ed Hardy hat, dark eye makeup up and hair tinsel arguing with another woman seated behind her on a Southwest Airlines flight. The video gathered over 4 million plays and 96,000 likes in three days.

On June 17th, 2025, TikToker^[1] @leahkay1010 posted two alternate, now viral angles of the woman now identified as Leanna Perry grabbing a fistful of the passenger's hair and refusing to let go. The TikTok video gathered over 2.8 million views and 130,000 likes in three days. However, the sound was later removed from the video.

A Reddit reupload on the subreddit /r/PublicFreakout^[2] by /u/Ace-Cuddler on June 18th gathered over 12,000 upvotes in two days.

Also on June 17th, Redditor /u/Sonialove8 reposted the second TikTok^[5] originally posted by @leahkay1010 to the subreddit /r/SouthwestAirlines,^[6] gathering over 1,000 upvotes in three days. The video shows Leanna Perry lying on the aisle between the seats with her hands zip-tied behind her back, now attempting to kick the lady she had previously attacked.

That same day, TikToker^[4] @amandawetterer posted a video showing Leanna Perry getting taken off the plane on a gurney, gathering over 32 million views and 1.7 million likes in three days.

Redditor^[7] /u/Ace-Cuddler gave a recap of the three videos to /r/PublicFreakout, as transcribed below:

In the first one, the lady with the red cap seems to be complaining that she paid $250 dollars for her seat and that she doesn’t want to have to touch the seated lady’s ass (“Do you think this is worth $250 dollars? … I’m sorry. There’s like – I’m like not touching this girl’s ass”). Then, she pulls out her phone to take a video of the ass (“Look, look. … F*ck it. Whatever. I’ll just take a video.”)
The second and third videos are similar to the one that I posted, except they were recorded from behind the girl with the red cap.
You can also watch a follow up video (from @leahkay1010 on TikTok) posted here on the PublicFreakout subreddit that shows the red cap girl complaining that she can’t breathe. So, they lay her down in the aisle, where she quickly starts to kick her feet towards the people around her.
Finally, in the last video from @amandawetterer, a group of police officers escort red cap lady, who is restrained on a gurney, away from the plane.

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Several internet users reposted the videos of Leanna Perry's actions on the Southwest Airlines flight in mid-June 2025, including X^[8] user @Laurieluvsmolly, who wrote, "Pretty sure she was at the Capitol on January 6th," gathering over 24 million views and 120,000 likes on a video posted on June 17th, 2025.

Also on June 17th, X^[9] user @notcapnamerica reposted the video, writing, "Bitch IKYFL! Once she spit on me I would’ve had to go to jail," gathering over 16 million views and 100,000 likes in three days.

Some internet users unearthed a 2024 article in The City^[10] in which Leanna Perry claims to have voted for Donald Trump in 2020, and attested to her plan to vote for him again in 2024. Perry says that being a Republican in New York City can be "isolating," and that people assume that she is a liberal because she is "edgy."

On June 18th, 2025, the Daily Mail^[11] published an article uncovering Leanna Perry's professional history, including her collaborations with brands like Betsey Johnson, Maybelline, Adidas and MAC. The article also delved into her background, claiming that she is from the "quaint" Midwest city of Lee's Summit, Missouri, and described her life in New York City as that of a "privileged" artist.

The article also reported that Leanna Perry deleted her LinkedIn and Instagram^[14] and set her Twitter / X^[13] account to private after she was contacted for a comment on the Southwest Airlines incident. Perry's professional work with brands like Betsey Johnson and Adidas can be accessed on her Behance^[12] account.

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