Mile High Club: Pilot uses gay dating app Grindr to hit on passenger MID-FLIGHT

An airplane passenger in the US was hit on by a pilot mid-flight... through the gay dating app Grindr. The 27-year-old student shared the creepy exchange on Twitter – and captured the internet’s imagination in the process.

The message exchange happened on a flight from Minnesota to Chicago in August, JP Thorn revealed to the New York Post on Wednesday. When the flight landed and Thorn’s mobile service reconnected, his phone pinged – revealing the message from the man who had only been feet away from him. “I see you’re on my flight,” it read. “Enjoy the ride to Chicago.”

He shared a screenshot of the message on Twitter, in a post that has since gone viral with netizens cheering Thorn on, sharing median pilot salaries (and the odd joke about a cockpit).

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