Keanu Reeves bonds with passengers after flight makes emergency landing

Keanu Reeves took his fellow passengers on an excellent adventure — in a van, not a bus this time — after their flight was forced to make an emergency landing.

The 54-year-old actor was aboard a United Airlines flight from San Francisco to Burbank when it had to divert to Bakersfield because of a mechanical issue, Yahoo News reported.

Passengers shed aside their annoyances and pulled out their cell phones to record the “John Wick” star helping out with their travel arrangements and shooting the breeze.

Amir Blum, co-creator of the game studio Unboxed Experience, posted a photo of himself standing next to the bearded Reeves, who is wearing an Arch biker cap.

“That time when your flight out from (the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco) almost crashes and you have to emergency land in a remote airport but at least Keanu Reeves is having as bad a day as you are,” Blum wrote on Twitter.

“I mean, near death experience followed by fans annoying you for pictures. Doesn’t get much worse,” he added.

LA-based freelance artist Brian Rea described Reeves — who starred in 1989’s “Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure” — as “very pleasant” at Meadows Field Airport, a couple hours north of LA.

“Took photos, talked about latest project w/ 2 very enthusiastic airline employees. We bonded – He sat two rows up. I fell asleep,” Rea wrote on Instagram.

“We might be riding a bus w/ Keanu…He chose to stay around and wait,” Rea, Rea, who illustrates the popular New York Times’ “Modern Love” column, wrote in his impromptu travelogue.

Ultimately, Reeves boarded a van – unlike his bus adventure with Sandra Bullock in “Speed” – where he jokingly read aloud facts about Bakersfield, including that “the population is around 380,000.”

He then played some country music native to the city — “Bakersfield sounds” from the 1950s – and joined his new friends for a mid-ride snack at a Carl’s Jr. fast-food joint.

“There no dramatic goodbyes,” Rea reported after their 100-mile trip was over, “though there was a brief laughable pause where we didn’t know how it should end.

“So we simply shook hands and [said] a ‘good meeting + ride with you.’ Then we went separate ways,” he said. “And sometimes, that’s how life is.”

Reeve’s latest flick, “John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum,” opens on May 17 and includes Halle Berry and Laurence Fishburne.

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