Passengers, including young children, on a Qantas flight from Sydney to Tokyo got much more than they bargained for when a steamy adult film was shown on every screen.
Due to technical issues with the in-flight entertainment on Qantas flight QF59 to Haneda Airport in the Japanese capital, individual film selection was not available.
The only solution was to do the same movie, starring Dakota Johnson and Sean Penn. of a limited choice on each screen, with no way to opt out of whatever has been chosen.
But the movie chosen by a majority of passengers was the R-rated Daddio, which featured explicit sexual material, graphic nudity, exposed genitals and sexually charged text messages.
In Australia, R-rated films are “legally restricted to adults over the age of 18, which may contain content that may be offensive to sections of the adult community.”
And Daddio certainly offended some of the passengers on the flight to Tokyo when one took to Reddit.
“Qantas played an inappropriate movie to the entire plane, there was no way to turn it off,” the woman fumed on Reddit.
‘It was impossible to pause it, dim it or turn it off. Here’s the kicker: the movie they played was extremely inappropriate.
Passengers on a Qantas flight from Sydney to Tokyo got more than they bargained for when a steamy adult film was shown on every screen. Pictured is Dakota Johnson in a scene from the R-rated film Daddio
‘It contained graphic nudity and a lot of sexting, the kind where you could literally read the lyrics on the screen without needing headphones.
“It took almost an hour for them to switch to a more kid-friendly movie, but it was super awkward for everyone, especially with families and kids on board.”
Qantas is now reviewing how the film was selected.”
“The film was clearly not appropriate to play throughout the flight and we sincerely apologize to customers for this experience,” a Qantas spokesperson told Daily Mail Australia.
“All screens have been changed to a family-friendly movie for the remainder of the flight, which is our standard practice in the rare cases where individual movie selection is not possible.”
The film chosen by a majority of passengers was the R-rated Daddio, which featured explicit sexual material, explicit nudity, exposed genitals and sexually charged text messages (pictured)
A Qantas spokesperson told Daily Mail Australia that “the film was clearly not appropriate to play throughout the flight and we sincerely apologize to customers for this experience.” Pictured is a Qantas aircraft
But the passenger who wrote about the issue online wasn’t happy, even after the Qantas crew apologized and posted some photos they took of the sexting, which appeared on the seatback screens.
‘How is this acceptable for a major airline? Has anyone else experienced something like this,” the woman added.