The biggest airport meltdowns revealed as Americans prepare for record-breaking July 4th weekend
- DailyMail.com rounds up six of the most dramatic airport meltdown videos
Americans are bracing for airport chaos this July 4th as millions of travelers descend on travel hubs across the country.
A record 32 million jetsetters are expected to be screened at airports between June 27 and July 8, according to TSA - but some passengers will almost certainly be better behaved than others.
Scores of videos showing shocking airport meltdowns have gone viral in recent years - with one drunk passenger sparking outrage after slapping a black worker in a vicious racist attack just this week.
Here DailyMail.com rounds up six of the wildest airport moments caught on camera...
Can we get Pete Buttigieg on the phone? We have an upset customer
In April this year, one passenger was filmed cursing and screaming at LAX airport staff after reportedly missing her flight.
'Get me the f*** up on the next flight you motherf****rs,' the woman is heard yelling, before demanding to speak to Transport Secretary Pete Buttigieg.
Much to the the amusement of the good-natured employees, she eventually discovers she is at both the wrong terminal and airline counter.
'I'm trying to get home to the girls!'
An accountant and his Louis-Vuitton-toting husband set the internet on fire in December 2023 when they were filmed wailing with anger at a departure gate in Charlotte Douglas Airport in North Carolina.
Mid rant, they even cursed at a woman in the wheelchair as they accused American Airlines staff of keeping them from their pet dogs Shelby and Dolly.
'Remember your girls! You don't care about the girls, you don't care about the girls,' Thorne kept repeating, in a seemingly manic state.
A Karen strikes again!
In March this year a woman indulged in a wild meltdown at Dallas-Fort Worth Airport after she was barred from an American Airlines flight for 'abusing staff'.
The woman was seen on police bodycam berating officers, mocking their penis size and 'mediocre' salary - before making a 'wet' mess on the terminal floor.
She claimed to have only had two 'very full' vodka tonics to drink at the airport bar, but was slurring and incoherent for much of her chaotic arrest.
Tantrum on display
The JetBlue check-in desk at Fort Lauderdale International Airport in Florida suffered through a huge earful in 2019 when a 26-year-old woman verbally attacked airline staff, calling one employee a rapist. She also claimed to be armed with a gun.
The woman was later arrested and committed to a hospital for a psychiatric examination.
'Who wants a fight?'
A 280lb, 6ft New York man caused a wild scene at an Orlando airport in 2022, where he tasered several times by police - and still refused to go down.
The altercation escalated when the man got into a physical fight with his wife and six-year-old daughter and had to be separated by security. He later attacked an airline employee before being arrested and charged.
Find my children, bro!
This is the moment an Alabama mom who appears to have misplaced her children takes it out on an innocent bystander at Miami airport...and the computers.
Police said the American Airlines passenger became 'irate and began to scream' at an employee when her two children had walked away without telling her. She then pulled a computer off the counter and threw it at the agent.
The woman was detained by US Customs and Border Protection Officers during the 2022 incident before being arrested and charged by local police.
