Plane Passenger Gets Weird, Ends Up “In Today’s Edition Of ‘Things Not To Ask A Flight Attendant…'”

There are different questions that are 100% inappropriate to ask in different situations. For example, you don’t ask the lady about her age, the rich guy – about making his first million, Tom Brady – about deflated balls… and while on the plane, you don’t ask the cabin crew about anything really suspicious. For example, regarding flight safety.

Otherwise, you – no matter what class you are flying – are almost guaranteed to get increased attention from flight security, and subsequently, even if you were ‘just curious,’ this can cause a lot of inconvenience during further flights. And yet, there are people who clearly ignore common sense – for example, as in today’s story of ours, by the user u/gabe840.

More info: Reddit

The author of the post was once flying from LA to Fort Lauderdale and they met quite a weird passenger on board

Man on airplane looking stressed after quizzing flight attendant on sensitive safety questions during flight.

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That guy was a first class passenger – and he started pestering the flight attendant with questions about cockpit access during lav breaks

Text post about things not to ask a flight attendant, mentioning a red-eye flight from LAX to FLL and seat 2B.

Man foolishly quizzes flight attendant on sensitive flight safety procedures during cabin service briefing.

Passenger whispering to flight attendant in an airplane aisle during a tense exchange about sensitive safety questions.

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Flight attendant serving passengers in airplane cabin while managing sensitive safety questions from a passenger.

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The flight attendant told him that they can’t provide such information to passengers – and the man assured them he was ‘just curious’

Text exchange showing a guy foolishly quizzing a flight attendant on sensitive safety questions, getting told to stop immediately.

Passenger insists on asking sensitive safety questions, flight attendant firmly responds to drop it immediately during flight.

Flight attendant responds firmly to a passenger asking sensitive safety questions, referencing 9/11 and ending the discussion.

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Pilot in cockpit monitoring flight instruments, highlighting aviation safety and flight attendant interaction.

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The flight attendant then told him  that it was all about the security measures after 9/11

Man quizzes flight attendant on sensitive safety questions near flight deck door, told to drop it immediately.

Man foolishly quizzing flight attendant on sensitive safety questions, being told to stop immediately in a plane cabin.

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So the only reaction that man actually got was additional attention from the cabin crew during the next lav break

The Original Poster (OP) tells us that they once flew from Los Angeles to Fort Lauderdale and were seated in 2B. Just ahead of them, in 1B, there was some random guy who couldn’t think of anything better to do than pester the flight attendant with various weird questions right when the cabin service was about to start.

For example, he said that on his previous flights he’d seen that the flight attendants didn’t block access to the galley when the pilot used the lavatory – and he wanted to know if the cabin crew instructions had changed in such cases. The flight attendant asked him point blank if that meant the passenger was inquiring on access procedures for the flight deck.

The passenger looked embarrassed and said he was just curious – and when the flight attendant flatly refused to provide any information on this, he quipped that he didn’t know he had no right to ask questions. The flight attendant wasn’t going to argue, but simply replied that the passenger had apparently forgotten about 9/11 and all the security measures that had been put in place on planes and in airports since then.

It’s possible, the original poster notes, that this guy had no intention of doing anything dangerous and simply decided to make some small talk with the flight attendant – but in doing so he only attracted additional attention to himself. As a result, when the pilot went to the lavatory, they called two extra flight attendants from the rear to come up and block the galley – and one of them kept his eyes on that very dude the whole time…

Commercial airplane approaching for landing with landing gear down, related to flight attendant safety questions.

Image credits: Guohua Song / Pexels (not the actual photo)

Of course, we are talking about the increased security measures on airlines, not only in the US but all over the world, which have been adopted since 9/11 and have become practically the standard of passenger transportation in a quarter of a century. So it’s not surprising that any passenger who starts to take an intense interest in such questions before takeoff attracts security’s attention.

Yes, the adopted set of measures has completely changed the entire paradigm of air travel, making everything a much longer process – but the safety of flights has clearly increased. It is no longer possible to go from the airport entrance to boarding in half an hour (remember, again, the Home Alone 2movie and their airport run – today something like this is simply unthinkable).

On the other hand, these are all completely reasonable measures – because no one actually knows what the next threat to passenger safety might be on literally any flight. “Our threats have continued to change. And our regulations and our lawmaking is not always fast enough to adapt to those changes,” Jeffrey Price, an aviation security expert at Metropolitan State University in Denver, says in an interview with NPR.

Many people in the comments to the original post claim that this guy will now attract special attention from federal services for a long time – and maybe forever – on any flight. Or, alternatively, he will end up on that notorious “randomly selected” list by TSA – so who knows? In any case, flying is unlikely to become easier for him in the coming years… So do you, our dear readers, agree with this as well?

People in the comments also agreed his questions sounded weird, and assumed he’d be in the ‘randomly selected’ list by TSA soon

Comment discussing federal attention on a passenger who quizzes a flight attendant on sensitive safety questions.

Reddit user discussing social challenges and curiosity leading to suspicious behavior and difficulty reading social cues.

Screenshot of a forum comment discussing a guy questioning a flight attendant on sensitive safety questions during a flight.

User comment questioning why flight attendants don’t always block the galley with carts during flights.

Screenshot of an online forum post discussing a man quizzing a flight attendant on sensitive safety questions.

Man quizzes flight attendant on sensitive flight safety questions during a flight, told to stop the risky questioning immediately.

A man foolishly quizzing a flight attendant on sensitive safety questions, facing a firm warning to stop immediately.

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