A teenage girl learned a valuable lesson this weekend that it is not wise to prank an airline company.
A Twitter user named "Sarah," using the Twitter handle @QueenDemtriax_, sent a tweet to American Airlines on April 13 claiming something "really big" was going to happen this June.
"hello my name's Ibrahim and I'm from Afghanistan," Sarah said in the tweet this weekend, according to The Daily News. "I'm part of Al Qaida and on June 1st I'm gonna do something really big bye."
It didn't take long for the airline to respond to the supposed terrorist.
"Sarah, we take these threats very seriously. Your IP address and details will be forwarded to security and the FBI," the airline responded on Twitter.
"Sarah" responded with over 12 tweets claiming she was just 14-year-old girl playing a "prank."
"I'm so sorry I'm scared now." she wrote back to American Airlines, according to the paper. "I was joking and it was my friend not me, take her IP address not mine."
The exchange went viral all over the world as teenager continued to try reasoning with the airline over the social media site.
"I'm just a fangirl pls I don't have evil thoughts and plus I'm a white girl," @QueenDemtriax_ said in one of her many tweets this weekend.
After receiving over 30,000 new followers, Sarah deleted her account.
"I always wanted to be famous," the girl tweeted before deleting her account. "But I meant like Demi Lovato famous, not Osama bin laden famous."
American Airlines removed their response to the prankster, saying it was causing them to generate a lot of negative traffic.
"We took it down basically because it generated a lot of traffic," American Airlines spokeswoman Dori Alvarez said according to the newspaper. "We took it down so we could better focus on our customers."
Alvarez did not discuss the threat specially however. It is doubtful that the airline actually forwarded the tweet to the FBI however.
"At American, the safety of our passengers and crew is our number one priority," American said in a statement. "We take security matters very seriously and work with authorities on a case by case basis."
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