Alone on Board Plane

A woman boarded an Air Canada flight earlier this month,

She fell asleep after takeoff and

She woke up alone in a dark, parked plane, apparently forgotten about by ground staff.

Her story was posted by a friend on Air Canada's Facebook page,

Her story drew incredulous reactions from readers

and a request for details from the airline.

According to the post,

Adams was flying from x to y  when she fell asleep,

aided by the fact that

she'd ended up with a whole row of seats to herself.

She woke up in "pitch black,"

with the plane having landed

and apparently been towed away from the airport,

after passengers and crew had disembarked.

"I think I'm having a bad dream (because)

like seriously how is this happening.

She briefly called a friend

but was cut short when her phone's battery died.

"I'm trying to focus on my breathing and control my panic attack

while I attempt to charge my phone by plugging into every USB port I could find,

but that proved fruitless because the electricity on the plane was turned off.

After finally finding a torch in the cockpit,

she managed to open one of the doors

but faced a drop of up to 50 feet (15 meters) to get out of the plane.

She then used the torch to draw the attention of a luggage cart driver,

who arrived to find Adams with her legs hanging out of the plane's open doorway.

"He is in shock, asking how the heck they left me on the plane,"

 "I'm wondering the same."

Air Canada apologized for the incident,

but she hasn't had much sleep since

and is struggling with night terrors.

Air Canada was reviewing the episode but declined to offer further details.