--- title: Hazmat Crew Called In After Man Falsely Claims He Has Ebola on Plane description: Passengers onboard US Airways from Philadelphia had a bit of a scare Wednesday after a passenger exclaimed midflight that he had Ebola canonical: https://time.com/3487643/watch-hazmat-crew-boards-plane-after-man-falsely-claims-to-have-ebola/ author: Helen Regan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-10-10T07:25:12.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-21T10:42:27.021Z article:section: Health og:title: Hazmat Crew Boards Plane After Man Claims to Have Ebola og:description: Passengers onboard US Airways from Philadelphia had a bit of a scare Wednesday after a passenger exclaimed midflight that he had Ebola og:url: https://time.com/3487643/watch-hazmat-crew-boards-plane-after-man-falsely-claims-to-have-ebola/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Hazmat Crew Boards Plane After Man Claims to Have Ebola twitter:description: Passengers onboard US Airways from Philadelphia had a bit of a scare Wednesday after a passenger exclaimed midflight that he had Ebola twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # WATCH: Hazmat Crew Boards Plane After Man Falsely Claims to Have Ebola by [Helen Regan](https://time.com/author/helen-regan/) ## Helen Regan Oct 10, 2014 7:25 AM UTC by [Helen Regan](https://time.com/author/helen-regan/) ## Helen Regan Oct 10, 2014 7:25 AM UTC Passengers onboard US Airways Flight 845 from Philadelphia had a bit of a scare Wednesday after a passenger exclaimed midflight that he had been infected with the deadly Ebola virus, [reports](http://abcnews.go.com/US/ebola-remark-officials-meet-plane-leaving-philadelphia/story?id=26087286) ABC News. Officials dressed in hazmat suits boarded the plane upon arrival in Punta Cana in the Dominican Republic. The airline said it was “due to a possible health issue on board.” Another passenger had heard the remark as the plane was making its approach to land and alerted the cabin crew, an airline spokesperson told ABC News. The passenger was removed from the plane by the team. It was later confirmed that he had never been in Africa and did not have Ebola. Footage shot by a passenger shows a flight attendant telling the passengers the suited-up officials would be boarding. “It’s going to look worse than it is,” she said, adding, “I think the man that has said this is an idiot.” After passengers alighted the officials examined the plane accordance with Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [guidelines](http://abcnews.go.com/US/ebola-remark-officials-meet-plane-leaving-philadelphia/story?id=26087286). “We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused but the safety of our customers and employees is our first priority,” the airline said in a statement. \[[_ABC News_](http://abcnews.go.com/US/ebola-remark-officials-meet-plane-leaving-philadelphia/story?id=26087286)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3487643/watch-hazmat-crew-boards-plane-after-man-falsely-claims-to-have-ebola/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3487643/watch-hazmat-crew-boards-plane-after-man-falsely-claims-to-have-ebola/"},"headline":"WATCH: Hazmat Crew Boards Plane After Man Falsely Claims to Have Ebola","datePublished":"2014-10-10T07:25:12.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T10:42:27.021Z","description":"Footage shows a team of officials wearing hazmat suits leading the man off the plane","url":"https://time.com/3487643/watch-hazmat-crew-boards-plane-after-man-falsely-claims-to-have-ebola/","keywords":["ebola","Philadelphia"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Helen Regan","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/helen-regan/"}],"articleSection":"Health","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/health/","name":"Health"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/ebola/","name":"ebola"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3487643/watch-hazmat-crew-boards-plane-after-man-falsely-claims-to-have-ebola/","name":"WATCH: Hazmat Crew Boards Plane After Man Falsely Claims to Have Ebola"}}]}] ```