LIGHT ENTERTAINMENT: Airport Staff Stage 'Lightsaber' Duel For Delayed Passengers

This clip shows how airport staff kept delayed passengers entertained by staging a 'lightsaber' fight on the tarmac outside the plane.

One of the men seen 'duelling' in the footage was 21-year-old aviation student Quinten Moshy from San Jose, California, USA.

Quinten, who works part-time as a ramp agent at San Jose International Airport, told Newsflash in an interview: "If I remember correctly, the mechanical issue was a fuel sensor in one of the wings of the aircraft.

"It's a Boeing 787-9, and the way the fuel system works is there's sensors to evenly distribute the fuel across the wings and also give the pilots information about the fuel quantity etc.

"One of those sensors had to be fixed. In certain scenarios we would deplane the passengers or cancel the flight if the issue couldn't be fixed immediately, but this was something that could be fixed to the point where the plane could eventually leave that night even though the passengers would have to wait a bit.

"On a normal day this flight would be on the ground at the airport for two hours. I believe this day it was there for more like five or six."

Quinten told Newsflash he had not been thinking of Luke Skywalker or Darth Vader at the time.

He said: "The original inspiration wasn't Star Wars. We were just sitting there on the ramp waiting and were bored.

"I saw the night wands (those orange glow sticks that marshallers use) and thought we could have some fun with them, so we went to both sides of the aircraft and started waving at people and making designs on the ground.

"We then discovered that they resemble lightsabers so that's when the lightsaber battle happened. We were just doing whatever we could with them."

The clip, filmed by a passenger on 5th July 2022, was later posted to social media and did the rounds.

Quinten told Newsflash: "When the video went viral, a common misconception was that all the passengers were upset or mad about the whole thing.

"Obviously I don't know what everyone was thinking exactly, but our experience was many people waving at us, smiling and laughing etc.

"This is an international flight, and whenever a delay happens our team always does our best to treat our customers well and make their experience better.

"My video and our actions didn't get any complaints from any of these passengers."