Saudi Prince ‘booked out 80 seats on public flight for his killer falcons’

DAILY STAR

A trip on a flight is rarely something people look forward to and that’s without the jet being filled with killer birds.

That’s what a bizarre image that has been taking the internet by storm purports to show. Row after row, regular economy-class seating is taken up not with crying babies and men with nauseating body-odour, but rather blood-thirsty birds of prey, believed to be falcons.

The image has been around for a while, but has been enjoying a resurgence this week after it was reposted by an account on X, formerly Twitter, called Historic Vids.

It shows some 80 falcons, all hooded, sitting on boards on the backs of plane seats. It is surreal – the birds look both at home and strangely humanoid, sitting bolt-upright and not dissimilar to people making casual chit-chat as their flight cruises at 37,000 feet.