SANTA ANA, Calif. -- Video captured the moment workers at John Wayne Airport in Santa Ana, California watched in disbelief when a car zoomed by several airplanes on a busy taxiway.

The bizarre scene unfolded around 1:12 p.m. Monday when a contract security guard assigned to an airfield security checkpoint drove a car onto the taxiway at a high rate of speed, the airport said in a statement.

Footage shows a white Toyota Camry racing down the tarmac and speeding past several planes taxiing toward the runway.

"Me and all my co-workers were just like yelling, giving him the X, holding the [ traffic ] wands, telling him to stop the plane, and then he zoomed right past," said Rijken Vanderweide, an airport employee who recorded the video. "Honestly, if we didn't tell that plane to stop,

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