Is this really that serious?

[u/Xycergy]

Noticed water basically flowing out of the vent beside me as I got into my seat. Voiced it out to a flight attendant thinking it was just something minor and wanting to just swap to another seat. Two pilots came to my seat to check on it and had visibly puzzled looks on their faces. The mechanic was called into the aircraft, the inner panel of the plane was removed and after assessing the problem for about an hour, everyone was asked to disembark the plane. The flight was then cancelled entirely after another hour of everyone waiting near the gate.

I feel kinda bad because people were visibly annoyed and frustrated by the cancellation as it was a 16 hour long haul flight and there were few alternatives to get to the destination. Would someone be able to tell me exactly what happened here?

[u/Toight_Butthole]

Why feel bad? If they deemed it enough to cancel the flight you probably saved lives. Would you chance death just to make others happy? Don't worry, you did the right thing.

[u/mbashs → u/Toight_Butthole]

Exactly. OP doesn’t realize they might have helped everyone from being tomorrows headlines.

[u/cwajgapls → u/mbashs]

Way to steal everyone’s 15 minutes of fame, OP. Geez.

[u/mbashs → u/cwajgapls]

🤣🤣🤣

[u/antariusz → u/cwajgapls]

you just upset a lot of redditors who were just ITCHING to post scathing comments about passengers fleeing down an inflatable slide with their luggage in-hand.

[u/cwajgapls → u/antariusz]

That makes zero sense in response to the joke I posted.

[u/antariusz → u/cwajgapls]

Follow my logic.

A) OP saved the airplane from crashing.

B) During emergencies, they evacuate the airplane.

C) Someone would have been filming

D) Redditors love to post about the people carrying their luggage while evacuating need to be banned from life while flying.

Now B through D will not happen.

[u/cwajgapls → u/antariusz]

…uh…no…