Talk about going up in flames.
was a nervous traveler was convinced his plane was going down When flight attendants started handing out a very unique item to passengers.
Jula Wadini, a Polish woman traveling to San José del Guaviare, Colombia, Captured a TikTok video That moment when the flight crew started lighting electronic candles throughout the plane.
Confused, she made the sign of the cross and shouted, “Are we dying?” The clip received nearly two million views. This was just before the terrible unrest occurred.
“I’m now convinced that they gave us the candles because they knew we would crash,” he said in the text.
Subsequently, a pilot announcement in Spanish instructed passengers to pay “special attention” to further instructions.
“The language barrier didn’t really help me,” she wrote on Instagram,
Luckily, Vaadini’s flight landed without any real drama. After some time he discovered that there was a logical explanation for the candles too.
“Turns out it’s a Colombian tradition on December 7th!” Vadini wrote.
“One candle = one wish!! How healthy.”
December 7 is the Catholic feast day of the Immaculate Conception and is celebrated as the Day of the Little Candles or Día de las Valitas in the South American country.
One commented, “They could have done a better job of explaining why.”
“Heart, I would go completely crazy too,” added another.
