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We've grown accustomed to air travel and have high expectations for it. According to one study, 96% of passengers are concerned with the cleanliness of the cabin and lavatory, 94% want a friendly, attentive, and accessible staff, 93% worry about seat spacing, and desire 92% quality food and beverage options.
However, taking hundreds of people, lifting them up 30,000 feet, and transporting them to another corner of the world in a matter of hours is no small feat. From time to time, various inconveniences and challenges do arise.
To learn about these situations, Reddit user prettyKaitlynn made a post on the platform, asking everyone, "What's the most horrifying thing you've experienced on a flight?" Below are some of the answers they have received.
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#1
This happened to me recently. Im disabled and usually fly alone (which is not super fun lol). So I’ll splurge and get myself a first class seat so at least I don’t lose an entire week of time with my pain getting worse. We were delayed FIVE HOURS because of a bad thunderstorm. During this time (about two hours in) I needed to grab my pain meds, I stand up, grab my bag, pull my medsafe out. Aaaaannnddd the locking mechanism has BROKEN. I AM LOCKED OUT OF MY MEDICATION BOX….EVERY VITAL PIECE OF MEDICINE IS IN THERE.
I couldn’t believe it, I was already stressed and had a full blown panic attack. But I’m so embarrassed I’m trying to keep it together. There’s two woman about my age (30) waiting for the bathroom (I’m in seat 1a), and they can see me losing my mind. Asked me if I was ok, and I blurted out what happened. One of them asked if I wanted to have her husband try to break into it. Im like sure, idc if you have to break it. So he did!!! Thank god…I was shaking so badly I couldn’t even open the bottles. She grabbed a water bottle for me and went through all my meds and found what I needed.
She was an ANGEL and I can never repay or thank her enough for helping me in one of my lowest, most isolating situations. The flight attendants were also sooooo nice once they figured out what happened. Horrible experience but man those people made it so much better, so grateful for them!!!!!
Pittsburgh rare 2 years ago
Being trapped in a f*****g tin can together makes most people nice to each other (and sometimes makes some the opposite)
Alex Davis 2 years ago
This is what has always put me off these med boxes that are locked- they surely should have to have some sort of manual override key or code for situations like this. I'm on dozens of meds and the thought of being locked out of them makes me break out in a sweat! Thank god for kind people, actually nice to hear a story of people being kind to one and other on a plane and not the opposite!
Mona Stevenson 2 years ago
TIL that there are such things. I’m sure there’s a reason for them (kid safety?) but they sound like a hassle.
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Sandy D 2 years ago
I'm glad you ended up getting help. I have health (especially breathing) and mobility issues. I try hard to not travel alone for similar reasons. I had a massive asthma related coughing spell to the point of gasping for a breath and gagging / choking to get air. I had one of those in high school and I had a shot class make fun of me. A different teacher who had a ton of his own kids knew kinda what to do and he helped me. I've had potters a an adult. It happened in stir a few times, only once hubby was with me,. If scary, it sort of hurts, and it's totally humiliating. It's like the lung version of a panic attack. It sucks having something medical and very noticeable happen when you're on your own.
Šimon Špaček 2 years ago
The crazy thing is that this amount of help is something that the husband probably doesn't gonna remember for too long. Just a little help for somebody in need, but for OP it was the best thing in long time.
Vinniegret 2 years ago
Nice to hear a story about kindness and community on a plane rather than a fight of some kind.
A B C the Third 2 years ago
Ah, BP classic, first read and it doesn't fit the title. It's a nice happy-end story though, so there's that, yay.
Nice Beast Ludo 2 years ago
This could have turned into a horrific flight. If OP takes narcotic pain medicine and couldn't get to it, they would have spent the flight in withdrawal and excruciating pain(especially after sitting for 5 hours). I can't imagine. Lucky these people helped and first class ended up being very good fortune if the plane sat an extra 5 hours
Jennifer Ness 2 years ago
Because we're starved for proof that there is a shred of humanity left in the world
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#2
On a red eye flight, everyone was asleep but I can't sleep on planes. A few rows behind me a girl started screaming "mama!? MAMA!?" The flight attendants walked over, then ran back. Then ran over holding a defibrillator. Then walked the hysterical girl, looked to be about a teenager, to the front of the plane. Then walked back with blankets.
When the plane landed no one was allowed to move. A stretcher came on board and wheeled the blanket covered body out. The sobbing girl followed behind.
I can't imagine losing a parent on a flight, with nowhere to go and no way to contact anyone else for help, surrounded by nosy strangers in tight quarters.
StrangeOne 2 years ago
Absolutely tragic. Enjoy your loved ones as much as you can. Never know when they'll be gone. I hope the girl was going somewhere familiar and with people she knows, and not completely alone in an unfamiliar place.
Craig Walker 2 years ago (edited)
Had a similar experience on a night flight when a guy had a heart attack just as we passed Albuquerque heading to Phoenix. We were at 41k and the pilot put us in a steep 4k* per min dive so he could land in Albuquerque. I've never been on a plane that taxied that fast to a gate where he was wheeled off by EMT's. Hopefully he survived due to the quick actions of the crew. *While it was clear we were descending quickly, I think if it had been daytime people would have been scared by that steep of a dive, but at night unless you were at a window seat you wouldn't have known it was so steep.
A dude who likes to drum 2 years ago
This make me cry just thinking about it as I’m also a teen if this happened to me ugh I would be traumatized 😭
Trish 2 years ago
Poor little thing. I would have stayed with her until she could connect with family or friends.
Goth Nurse 2 years ago
I wish there was no one recording on their phones - but there's always disrespectful aßßholes
Naya Busch 2 years ago
Imagine going on a flight with your mother to take a vacation and relax and this happens. Suddenly you're alone, lost your mom, and had to experience that? I feel so bad for her, I hope her and her family are okay.
Nana 2 years ago
It's heartbreaking. I've experienced this on a flight from Dubai to Vienna in 2009. An elderly couple. They were smiling and happy and after an hour through the flight I heard sobs and saw the woman trying to wake her husband/partner. It was a sad flight then. Everyone remained quiet. I don't think anyone ate. She covered him with her scarf. :(
Aroace tiger (she/they/he) 2 years ago
Holy s**t the idea is so horrible. I hope they had someone else there to take care of them somewhere
David A Paterson 2 years ago
A red eye flight is a cheap overnight flight at an ungodly hour of the morning. It is not all that unusual for a person to die on a flight. Usually the dead person is just propped up and it's pretended that they're still alive. Not an option in this case, poor girl.
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When I was 17 I was in a plane crash, my dad was the pilot, we were flying home from a baseball tournament I was in, he owned a Beechcraft Bonanza, a single engine propeller plane. While we were at 13k feet the propeller stopped dead. It was 8pm, dark enough where you couldnt really tell where open fields were or forests. He radioed into the nearest airport and declared emergency landing, but we didn't make it, we went down about 5 miles in front of the airport.
We knew we wouldnt make it to the airport once we were about at 6k feet, he radioed in and ATC said it was a big open field in front of the runway, aim for it and they will have fire and rescue ready, but we didn't make it that far, when we were about 200 feet off the ground we see the tree tops shooting back up at us and he says "f**k" I still don't really remember what happened after that, but clearly we were extremely lucky, the wings got torn off on both sides from trees we hit, but after sliding through the forest floor for about 60 yards we hit a tree head on, but at that point we were going maybe 30mph.
We both walked away, he broke his nose and I had a cut on my face from the glass, but other than that we were totally fine. Fire and rescue was at the crash maybe 5 minutes later, they told us they thought this was going to be a body retreval, so they were very suprised to see us standing there laughing and crying.
Šimon Špaček 2 years ago
It reminds me of a story from WWII. Bomber plane got hit, engines died, rudder blocked. The pilot gave the order to bail out and they were out in 20 seconds (he said that). They saw how the plane glided. It went down, gained speed, thanks to speed it leveled, slowed down, turned down, gained speed,... and finally landed! During the fall the pilot realized that there are only 5 of them, not 6. Gunner was missing. So when they landed, they ran to the plane to see if their friend died or what happened. He climebed out of the plane, swearing something about "couldn't you warn me that you will hard land?" and all the pilot was able to say was "sorry, I didn't land, it crashed".
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TotallyNOTaFox 2 years ago
Good thing there were 60 yards of nothing, the most dangerous thing in any crash is the sudden stop
Panda-riffic 2 years ago
What a survival story! Glad you and your dad were able to walk away. However, altitude of 13K feet? Unusually high for single engine. Did you have oxygen?
Interesting_Astronaut 2 years ago
It warms my heart that they were laughing, because i would do the same in that situation
#4
On a flight to Hawaii several years ago. Man beside me started experiencing a heart attack. Luckiest SOB I ever meet though. The plane was full of doctors on their way to a medical convention.
SkyBlueandBlack 2 years ago
Assuming she had a heart attack. Instead of a stroke, aneurysm, etc.
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Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 2 years ago
There's an old joke about a guy who had a heart attack and sued the doctor that saved his life. At court, he had another heart attack, and the doctor he was suing saved him again. While the man was recovering, the doctor went to see him, and said, "Lucky you sued a good doctor."
Grammarly 2 years ago
I'm confused- why would you sue the person who saved your life?
Load More Replies... Weasel Wise 2 years ago
Not on a flight but one of my employees decided to start a coke habit and came to work insanely high (I didn't know he was loaded at the time)...went into seizures and hit the floor. Lucky for him, the bar top was full of EMTs waiting for their table and without a thought, they jumped back there and immediately started assisting; dude ended up okay.
Riley Quinn 2 years ago
Making a mental note. Book a flight in conjunction with a medical conference in the destination area.
Marnie 2 years ago (edited)
I mean, if you're having a heart attack, I think the most important things you need are diagnostic equipment and medicine. Without that, what really could the doctors do? My understanding is that with proper medication in the first few hours, it can prevent a lot of the damage to the organ.
Robert T 2 years ago
I picked up a horrible bug in the US, starting to feel unwell as I was leaving. I literally vomitted my way from Fort Worth to Chicago. I then got on my flight to the UK, looking white as a sheet and still trying to vomit occasionally. I was sat next to a doctor..... who didn't even ask if I was okay! Glad I left though, as I was in bed for a week afterwards, and I can't imagine how much that would have cost if I'd had to have medical treatment in the US!
TheKnightOwl 2 years ago
My mum and her partner were on a tour of New Zealand when one of the elderly women slipped and broke her hip. There was a couple on the tour who were both doctors from the US (which they were happy to brag about prior to the incident), and they refused to help. My mum was a first aid officer for her place of employment, so looked after the woman as best she could until help arrived. When someone asked the doctors why they didn't lend a hand, they said it wasn't their responsibility as they were on holiday, and they didn't want to get sued if something went wrong...how sad to have that mindset. The woman obviously had to leave the tour, but she made enough of a recovery in NZ to go home (England), and kept in contact with my mum for awhile afterwards.
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#5
I got my very first period on a plane in white cargo pants flying from Ohio to California
StrangeOne 2 years ago
I don't think there's a women out there who hasn't experienced an embarrassing period accident.
GlamourGhoul 2 years ago
Seriously! Also, we should also stop the whole "periods are gross and embarrassing" mindset, cause just about every woman has a period, we all know men would absolutely freak out and act like they were dying if they had to deal with all it entails! Lol
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Catherine 2 years ago
That's traumatic I'm sorry. I ate half of my first loose tooth. It was back in the day when they let five year olds fly alone. I was going to visit my grandparents in the South. Well I took one bite into a sandwich when I felt a big crunch. At least the tooth fairy visits while on vacation and she's extra generous at the grandparent's house!
DJR 2 years ago
There are too many messes in the world to want to wear light-colored clothing. That goes quadruple for traveling.
The Original Bruno 2 years ago (edited)
Order French Fries. (Ketchup?) Men are easily grossed out, but we're also kinda stupid. (Sorry, guys, but you know it's true.)
Darth Kittius 2 years ago
The only problem with that is blood dries brown and ketchup dries more orangish I think
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#6
My baby did a projectile s**t all over the toilet wall while I was changing her nappy. The was s**t everywhere. S**tcano. There was somehow more s**t than baby. I told an attendant I needed cleaning supplies and a trash bag, and she turned up with a black plastic giant garbage bag that had masking tape on it saying "BABY S**T". Maybe it's a common occurrance with the pressure changes? I dunno. Either way I threw all the clothes and the blanket, everything in that bag except the baby! I cleaned the toilet room as best I could. I was absolutely mortified, and thankfully never seen anything like it since!
Captain Kyra 2 years ago
My oldest had a blowout at the zoo and we used every wipe we had cleaning him up
Nice Beast Ludo 2 years ago
Mine had one at the mall. We were out to lunch and it went alll the way up his back
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Sherri Mantooth Bagwell 2 years ago
Same experience flying home to my grandma's funeral. My 1st baby was 7wks old. Poop everywhere. The more I wiped, the more poo came out of him. I did the same as OP, cleaning what I could with baby wipes. Happened 30yrs ago & still brings back panicky memories!
SadieCat17 (she/her) 2 years ago
And men tell me that I'm disregarding my natural biological instincts when I say I don't want kids
#7
I was 16 and flying alone from Istanbul, Turkey to Seattle, USA to visit my sister who had left Turkey early to go to school in US (we were born in WA state so not as dramatic as it sounds). During the second leg of the flight, from London to Seattle, I developed a urinary tract infection. It kept getting worse and worse. I spent the whole 10 hour flight having to pee urgently, going to the bathroom every 10 minutes (disrupting the poor passenger next to me), getting one drop out, and crying on the toilet. I started passing clots of blood out of my urethra which was excruciating. I was so shy back then and scared, but I really wish I’d told a stewardess so at least I could have some emotional comfort and know what was going on. When I landed as soon as I saw my sister I burst into tears and said take me to the ER. They said it was the worst UTI they’d seen in a while. The meds started working so fast. Truly a horrible, horrible experience.
Robert T 2 years ago (edited)
Definitely speak to the flight crew. They are usually very sympathetic and discreet with anyone who has a genuine problem.
Marnie 2 years ago
She should have. But being so young, I would have expected the flight attendants to have noticed something was wrong and approached her themselves. She was just a child.
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UpupaEpops 2 years ago
I was in the middle of an IBD flare-up that lasted for 8 months when I had to take two 13-hour flights... A fun time to have severe bloating and chronic diarrhoea.
Carla Phillips 2 years ago
I feel for OP, I've had a uti very similar but I wasn't flying. I was a couple hours from home though and my poor best friend had to get off at every exit so I could pee and barely anything would come out. Once I got home, I went straight to the ER. They didn't believe I was urinating that much blood until the put in a catheter. It was such a relief once it was in because urine actually flowed. It came on super quick and got bad even quicker.
RaisedByCats 2 years ago
I got hit the morning I was due to take a long haul flight back home. Couldn't leave the loo. It took many tramadol and Ural to get me on that plane
No One 2 years ago (edited)
Acute UTIs can develop so quickly. I remember coming home from work feeling fine. My husband took the car to the gym and by the time he returned I was peeing drops of what looked like pomegranate juice between periods of curling up in the fetal position and bawling from the pain.
#8
Somebody died on the toilet and we did CPR for maybe half an hour or more before deciding to stop. Relative had to watch. In fact everybody had to watch because there is f*****g no where to go.
Snorkeldorf 2 years ago (edited)
Not a plane, but a bus. My daughter was on a Greyhound to come home for a visit. She called me from a city about an hour and half away to say she didn't know when she'd arrive as somebody on the bus had overdosed. Apparently a young woman went into the bathroom, came out and collapsed. I asked my daughter if the girl was going to be OK. My daughter said she didn't think so. The girl wasn't breathing and paramedics kept saying nothing was working. It was quite a while ago so I don't know if Narcan was standard procedure back then. She said the bus ride after that was mostly silent.
Dynamite Samurai Koala 2 years ago
And are watching a dead guy on the toilet and thinking "dude I need to s so bad RN hurry up stop dying"
Stannous Flouride 2 years ago
There are roughly 350,000 resuscitation attempts outside hospitals each year in the United States, with average survival rates of 5 to 10 percent, and 750,000 attempts in hospitals, with about a 20 percent survival rate. I'm a former US Army medic, done it three times. 2 fails, the third later died in the hospital ER.
Seadog 2 years ago
Not a plane. Friend was part of a church group that went to Charlotte to see the Panther's play. SO of course I85 is gridlocked after the game. Girl in the car in front of the church van had to pee. She asks driver of semi next to them if she can go behind is truck. She's squatted between the fuel tank and front drive axel when traffic starts moving. He didn't know she was still there and ran over her with everyone in sight watching including her brother in the car. It was over in a couple seconds. I couldn't help but wonder why someone, mainly her brother, couldn't stand on cab step to let driver know when she was done.
Charity Angel 2 years ago
I suppose it depends when this took place. Either way, 30 mins is a long time to be attempting CPR. Even with CPR, even if the heart can be restarted with an AED, there's going to be some kind of brain injury to consider. It also depends on where the plane was at this point - if they can't get down to do an emergency redirection, the chances are not good even with an AED.
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#9
Mine is nothing compared to these stories. I thought an old woman s**t herself only to find out my dad was letting out silent farts the entire f****n flight. I almost punched him
Mona Stevenson 2 years ago
And DURING travel. Egg salad sandwiches or any other stinky things … ewwww.
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My O My 2 years ago
The problen with farts is: there is nothing you can do about it. If you have to fart you have to fart
Alvia Vseobecna 2 years ago
Poor guy..could not have been pleasant for him either...hopefully a learning experience
#10
As soon as the engines revved up for take off, a woman started screaming like she was dying. The flight attendants couldn’t get up to go to her until the pilot rang the bell, about 5-10 minutes. She was screaming the entire time. Turns out her daughter put her on the flight even though she was terrified of flying. An attendant held her hand the entire flight, walked her all the way to meet the other daughter and tell her to never put mom on an airplane ever again.
Aboredpanda 2 years ago
An old lady held my hand through an entire (incredibly turbulent) flight to Egypt. I'd never experienced turbulence before, I was quite scared. But I never made a sound. I can't imagine how scared someone might be who screamed at takeoff. 💔
Libstak 2 years ago
I'm like this I freeze and can't make a sound, blessing when in a public space and there's no real risk, curse if I was ever mugged or abducted.
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David A Paterson 2 years ago
I don't know what vets give cats before a flight, but it does work. Must be awfully strong. PS, at the start of reading this I thought that the screaming may be due to ear pain which can be really bad, but not in this case.
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Sandy D 2 years ago
That's cruel. If she trying to break the phobia or something, she should absolutely not have left her alone. For her well being and for the sake of other passengers. How thoughtless
Alexandra 2 years ago
Completely agree. What was the daughter thinking putting her mother on a flight alone?
Load More Replies... Rosie Red 2 years ago
As soon as they close the doors, my claustrophobia begins to kick in and I want to run up and down the aisle, arms waving in the air, screaming someone open a window!!! I need air!! So yeah, I need medication to keep me calm.
TheKnightOwl 2 years ago
Same, even stepping into an elevator can be a struggle. I had a dream once that I was buried alive, and have been terrified of small spaces ever since. Years ago my mum had an MRI, and afterwards I would often think about how I would never be able to have an MRI...especially for the brain as they strap your head down and you have no choice but to be fully inside the metal tube..,the idea would make me sweat thinking about it. Three years ago I had some weird symptoms and was told I needed an MRI on my brain...oh boy. I made it through 90 minutes in the metal tube, but needed to be heavily medicated and blindfolded. A week later I'm told I have Multiple Sclerosis, and now have to have an MRI once a year for the rest of my life. So I've had 2 more so far, and still have to be blindfolded and heavily medicated.
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Cass 2 years ago
My dad worked abroad for 20 years. He worked 8-9 months and then spent 3-4 months at home. The problem was, he was terrified of flying and he had to fly to and from work. He "solved" the problem by drinking until he was out of his mind. We'd have to drag him from the airport because he could not walk, and there were many times he did not even recognize us. I feel so sorry for the crews that had to deal with him. He was not a nice drunk, and even worse when he was terrified. That's also what ended his career. He was switching planes in Frankfurt and was so drunk they didn't let him board. Instead of sobering up and getting on the next flight, he kept on drinking. It took mom a week to get him back home again.
Gardener of Weeden 2 years ago
I am afraid of flying. The last time my co-workers teased me the whole time. I sat reading a book, but I was mouthing the words the whole time ( no sound). They were fine with the boss who had to be so drunk she needed to be literally carried on to the plane, But I was an easy target.
- 2 years ago
Sounds like punching down. How hard is it to ask someone how they're doing?
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Benita Valdez 2 years ago
My mom freaked out on an airplane and yelled get me off this fůcking plane. Fortunately the airplane hadn't taken off yet so they were able to just let her off. This was in early/mid 90's so we only got delayed about 20 minutes and they didnt bother taking her bags off. She had her sister pick her and my brother up and me, my dad and sister went; this was around Christmas and international flight so very expensive tickets so weren't wasting all that money. Mom never got on an airplane again and no, that was not her first flight; she just couldn't do it anymore.
Johnnynatfan 2 years ago
Did she drug her? How does a grown woman get out on a flight without knowing what’s going on?
#11
I was sexually harrassed by the passenger next to me- the police had to escort him off the plane when we landed
Zoe Vokes 2 years ago
I was about eleven / twelve on a long distance flight once, in first class (because my dad was a pilot and we got free upgrades) and one man was creepily looking at me every time I walked past to go to the toilet. I felt safe because people all around but he made me feel very uncomfortable. Luckily I wasn’t sat near him.
Riley Quinn 2 years ago
They would've been escorting him off in a Hefty bag if he had harassed me. Won't go into detail here, but I've managed to "subdue" a couple predators, then waited for the police to collect them.
BlindAres 2 years ago
This is part of the reason I'm picky about public transportation. I wouldn't be able to contain my anger at someone doing this to another person.
Nice Beast Ludo 2 years ago
My best friend was visiting me after I moved and she took a train. 15 years old and when she got off told me and my mom that a man say with her and wouldn't leave her alone. He said he was a modeling agent and wanted to give her a contract. She was real creeped out.
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Many moons ago, I was on a very busy train (the one previous had been cancelled). I actually got my assigned (window) seat, and there was another young woman in the window seat on the other side of the aisle. Unsurprisingly, the aisle seats ended up taken too, by two men. The one next to me was fine, but her? He was drunk, and had a bottle of vodka with him. Picture the stereotype and you've got the right idea. He was being very loud about whether he was going to miss his connection because of the cancellation. I remember meeting the poor girl's eyes as he started up, in silent solidarity. // Maybe an hour or so into the journey, this girl leaves her seat - either to go to the toilet or the buffet car, idk. The drunk guy also disappears a couple of minutes later. He comes back, she doesn't. It was a bit odd, but honestly the whole train was so loud I hardly even noticed. Not until the train made an unscheduled stop and the Transport Police got on.
Charity Angel 2 years ago
Now, that was unusual. I used to travel by train regularly, and not only had I never seen that before, I've never seen it since either. I've certainly seen BTP officers float on and off of trains, but not making an unscheduled stop for them. // Anyway, these two officers promptly arrest the drunk guy and remove him from the train at the next stop. He left behind his bottle of vodka, and his chance of making his connection. And I didn't see the girl again - she didn't come back before I got off the train. I never found out the whole story, but it's not hard to connect the dots. // Almost 20 years later, and I still wonder if there was something I should have noticed, something I could have done. And if she's okay now.
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KrazyChiMama 2 years ago
Um any unwanted touching by a stranger is assault. If they're sexually touching you then it's sexual assault which is even more serious and like others have said there's tons of witnesses
#12
Captain here. 2 hours in on an early flight the in charge FA advises us we have run out of coffee.
Nonna_SoF 2 years ago
ATC this is flight 555 here. We're declaring an emergency and requesting clearance to the nearest airport.
Michael Largey 2 years ago
I don't drink coffee. But I would not like to be on a flight surrounded by deprived caffeine zombies.
TotallyNOTaFox 2 years ago (edited)
"This is Flight AU 5280, requesting KC-135 support for emergency caffeine refueling"
Seadog 2 years ago
Wouldn't bother me a bit as I can't even stand the smell of it.
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StitchIsCuteAndFluffy 2 years ago
This thread is sad, but this particular one and these comments are all hilarious, you guys are so funny 😆
The Original Bruno 2 years ago (edited)
"We've been thrown off course just a tad... about 70 million miles...The bumps you feel are car-sized asteroids smashing into the hull. Also, we're heading right for the sun and can't seem to change course." "Is there something you're not telling us, Ma'am" "Yes. we're out of coffee" (HTF are there hundreds of clicks, and not one Airplane 2 reference???)
T'Mar of Vulcan 2 years ago
And it's only then that people started screaming!! Very underrated movie.
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#13
On a flight from Denver to Houston a woman hit the call button, talked to a stewardess, then was escorted to the back of the plane. As she walked by I saw that her skin was grey in color and she looked really scared. A request for a medical professional came over the PA and the woman in front of me got up to assist. She came back after ten minutes and I overheard her tell her husband the woman didn’t make it. I then saw a stewardess get a guy that looked like a biker out of his seat and take him to the back of the plane. The biker looking guy was only there for a minute then went to the airplane’s galley for awhile. I’m thinking he must have been an air marshal.
My other experience was flying from San Francisco to Denver. The plane was loaded and it was time to takeoff but we just sat at the gate. The pilot announced we would be leaving soon and that we were late taking off because they had to balance out the luggage. Finally after around 30 minutes after we were supposed to takeoff the plane backed out and went to the runway. Once again we just sat on the tarmac, this time for another 30 minutes. The pilot got on the PA again and said we had to return to the gate because the plane was low on fuel from all the idling. Back at the gate three armed law enforcement officers entered the plane and escorted a man off. After that the pilot announced that we were finally ready to take off and that the previous wait was actually due to a security issue.
StrangeOne 2 years ago (edited)
Planes must run just like cruise ships. People die during the flight, or get in trouble, but the staff are trained to handle it in a way to not upset everyone else and cause panic. I'm also surprised the flight attendants responded to the buttons. They never did on any of the flights I went on. But since the term "stewardess" is used perhaps this happened decades ago.
David 2 years ago
As to your last sentence - doesn't mean the story is decades old. Might be the person telling is decades old. I'm in my 60s. It has been "stewardess" most of my life and that wasn't sexist or rude. It was the term the airlines themselves used. These days I try to use flight attendant to go with the flow but if I forget it isn't an insult. And while I have had male flight attendants, almost every one I have ever had has been female. I think for two practical reasons - Women are (on average) a bit smaller / lighter than men so saves on fuel. Also there might be a psychological advantage of helping to make passengers feel at ease.
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A dude who likes to drum 2 years ago
Ok the second one just sounds really annoying but the first one is sad 😔
Hey! 2 years ago
I'd prefer annoying than have a problem with someone on board.
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#14
On Halloween night in 1994 I was on a United flight from Vancouver to Chicago. Back then "Channel 9" on the inflight entertainment system let you listen to air traffic control. That night as we approached Chicago I was listening to Channel 9 when suddenly ATC told all the other planes to quiet down. Then they started calling over and over for another flight - American 4184 - And asking the other planes if anyone else could see an ATR. This went one for a few minutes and then CLICK channel 9 was switched off. I felt a chill go down my spine. When I got to my hotel I switched on CNN. Flight 4184 had gone down in a field in Indiana and everyone was dead.
The Idaho Potato 2 years ago
I'm quite sure this was the same flight that family members discovered remains near the crash site after the cleanup.
Paul Lee 2 years ago
That was American Eagle flight on October 31. I used to work for them as a flight attendant. Then i quit to go to United to start training on October 30. It was second day of my training class that we learned about the crash. I knew and had worked with both pilots. First officer was very young, early twenties. A super nice guy. What a sad day it was. 🥲🥲
shankShaw deReemer 2 years ago
I just saw an episode about this very flight on an old episode of The New Detectives just this morning, thanks to Samsung TV--that's free. Terrible what happened to all those people.
Seadog 2 years ago
Worked at a bank and one woman coming back from some meeting missed her flight. Next day she's in the bathroom when a coworker comes running in screaming and throws the newspaper of the stall door. The flight she missed went down and all were killed. Another worker got married to a serviceman stationed in Germany. She had never flown and was terrified of it but no other way to get there. In flight they announced they were diverting to make an emergency landing, bomb threat. As soon as plane came to a stop on the runway, they deployed the emergency slides and rushed everyone off. She was helping a woman run away with her kids when it blew. They were still close enough that pieces of aluminum hit them. Not one word in the news. We only found out because she called to tell us all what happened on her very first flight. Think about how much happens everyday that doesn't get reported.
Riley Quinn 2 years ago
That's not what I consider light travel entertainment. Oddly, United is still allowing this, although it's been modified to one channel.
#15
Being asked by the guy on the other side of the plane if there was oil spraying out of the engine on my side too.
A dude who likes to drum 2 years ago (edited)
😳 holy bejesus this is literally the most horrifying thing that someone could ask you
Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 2 years ago
Not really. Not even on a plane. For instance, "Is the wing on your side also on fire?" or perhaps, "Did you notice they're handing out parachutes?"
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SkyBlueandBlack 2 years ago
Chances are it was just a contrail. Water condensing into a cloud. Not unusual, but plenty of people don't understand what it is and end up ranting about all kinds of crazy things.
Mario Strada 2 years ago
My wife was on a flight where the engine actually dropped off the wing. My wife doesn't do well on emergency situations, she was completely freaked out (and she wasn't my wife yet). For the aviation fanatics out there, this happened well over 30 years ago in the Vancouver-Seattle-San Francisco corridor. The plane turned around and landed normally. Passengers were understandably a bit distressed, but apparently everything was handled professionally. She had to deplane, wait a long time and then get on another plane. I presume after somebody with a torque wrench checked the bolts out.
John Dilligaf 2 years ago (edited)
as long as oil continues to leak out it's sorta OK. Because that means there's still oil in the system. When it stops leaking out, then you have a more serious problem.....Source: CH-47 crew-chief (if you know , you know)
Dynamite Samurai Koala 2 years ago
Lord Jesus please tell me he wasn't asking like I would ask where the chicken is just casually
Seadog 2 years ago (edited)
friend of mine got lucky (or so he thought) and got a window seat (just behind the wing) on a return flight. On final approach he sees the end of the runway go by and then the reverse thrusters come around. Problem was they were still50 feet or more in the air. Plane fell like a rock, slammed the tarmac and bounced back up nearly as high as it was before. He said "Oh my God". The guy next to him said "No, it's the second time you have to worry about." and down they came again. Friend closed the window shade and never sat by the window again.
#16
Spent a 5 hour flight from Sydney to Perth witnessing a man rapidly descend into a drug induced psychosis due to the pellets of drugs inside him absorbing into his system from within. The flight started out as normal, and as the man became more and more agitated his speech became aggressive and incomprehensible to the woman beside him, with sweat starting to pour out of his body. He then got up and started pacing up and down the isle, whilst going to the bathroom every few minutes to I assume, attempt to reorganise what was inside of him. This all came to a head when he was slamming the bathroom door open and closed, throwing his shoes out at passengers and screaming at the flight attendants “it’s just because I need food”. Somehow the poor flight attendants were able to distract him until we landed, at which point he pulled out a small silver spoon from his back pocket, kissed it, looking up in the air in a “we’ve done it!” way, only to be met with approximately 10 police officers and security waiting outside the plane who handcuffed and escorted him away.
Bookworm 2 years ago
Don't do drugs, kids. You might wind up launching shoes at people from an airplane bathroom while demanding snacks.
Nonna_SoF 2 years ago
And definitely don't package up several dozen times the lethal dose and swallow it intending to retrieve it on the other end.
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Nice Beast Ludo 2 years ago
That's how you smuggle drugs? Watch those border patrol shows. You wouldn't believe how many people come through with drugs taped to them or their intestines full of drug bullets
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#17
Two nights before I was supposed to go on a business trip, I had a lucid dream where I was in a plane crash. I survived the initial crash, but was covered in burning jet fuel. I could feel myself burning, still strapped into my seat. The pain was so intense and eventually started fading as my nerve endings died in the fire. I remembered thinking "all I have to do is inhale and it's over"... so I did, and the dream ended. Cut to two days later, I get my seat assignment and am boarding the plane. I sit in the exact same seat in the exact same spot as my dream. I began to panic and was absolutely sure I was about to die horribly. I suffered in silence and braced for the end as we took off. In my dream, we crashed right after takeoff. The real takeoff was smooth as can be, no issues, we climbed, we survived, but my heart was racing for the first 30 minutes or so of that flight. Scary as F.
censorshipsucks 2 years ago
I think the first one opens with this exact scene.
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Iyelatu 2 years ago
Asking because i've never been on plane before: say if i was OP, after i saw my seat is the same exact place as in my dream, can i just turn back around? Am i allowed to do that?
Fun Fan 2 years ago (edited)
In this context, it's just like every other public transportation vehicle: before the doors are closing, you can any time get the hell off fom the vehicle. But speaking about planes, not buses, trams or trains, may the airport security or even police have some questions. But you have every right to get off from a plane, it's not a crime, it's like getting off from a train before departure. My aunt did this a few years ago. She had some dreams of her flight crashing, very detailed ones and although she was boarding, she changed her mind, before the doors were closed. Airport security asked her some questions, if she is okay, need some assistance, they thought, she got somemedical issues, therefore got she off. That plane didn't crash. 4 days later did.
Load More Replies... Thee8thsense 2 years ago
Scary dream! I boarded a plane (along with my boyfriend at the time), and had a terrible gut feeling. I told my boyfriend I felt we needed to get off before the plane took off. My gut feeling was increasing to panic when two airline mechanics came walking down the aisle. Shortly thereafter, an announcement was made that we all had to deplane and go to another one, as the one we were on was having "mechanical issues". I hate flying. Have had 3 friends who were in plane crashes (survived), a former father in law who died in a crash, and another dear friend whose mother died in a commercial airline crash, and then decades later, he and his son were in a small craft crash, and although they both survived, the pilot did not.
Timbob 2 years ago
Landing in a small prop plane on a local small airfield. Taxied right up to the fence enclosing the field, to turn around. Three months later, same trip. Now in a jet! Wondered about the small landing field ! Looked out the window, TERRIFIED as that fence came rushing towards us ! Almost ran into the cockpit. Taxied right past that fence, which they had extended recently to accommodate jets. Almost lost my lunch at both ends !
#18
During landing. Very close to land when the plane went high up in the air again. We figured there was a plane needing to depart or something. After noticing the plane was going in circles at a high altitude we realized something was going on. FA informed us, as per pilot instruction, they would try to land again however we might feel some turbulence as one of the wings was not working properly. That thing that opens and helps reduce the planes speed when landing was broken. It was nerve-racking and we didn’t know if we were going to finish landing, the plane was shaking like crazy at an intense speed. Thankfully the pilot managed to maneuver the plane. Everybody was clapping.
Rilmar 2 years ago
From the description I'm not entire sure if it was the flaps/slats (increase the surface of the wing, making it produce more lift - the force pointing up - and drag - the force pointing to the back; they allow planes to fly slower), or the spoilers (they are on top of the wing and extend upon landing, pushing the plane to the ground and thus making the brakes more effective). Probably flaps/slats, which means landing at a higher than normally speed. The go around and holding (circling) are standard when something isn't right: when in doubt, go around. The holding gives pilots time to troubleshoot (they have checklists for such stuff so they don't need to improvise), run the numbers (how much of runway will they need to stop, among other stuff) and make arrangements with the ground stuff and emergency services - in this case they probably needed to brake pretty hard, so they needed firefighters to stand by to check the temperature of the brakes etc.
Mona Stevenson 2 years ago
Circling possibly to dump or burn off excess fuel.
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Shaunn Munn 2 years ago
Aileron or air brake malfunctions are thoroughly covered in flight training, and can be compensated with other instrumentation. Excellent piloting. Good flight crew!
Matthews 2 years ago
Spoilers, speed brakes, flaps and slats all play a part on slowing the aircraft down for the landing. Ground spoilers, though, possibly wouldn’t create a problem while still up in the air.
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Tim 2 years ago
They discovered the problem while on approach. Spoilers deploy only after touchdown. So this was flaps which increase the wing surface providing greater lift at slower speeds. Having one set deployed and the other not deployed would make the plan yaw (turn without banking) and the autopilot would try and correct this creating vibration. They likely just slowed as much as possible and landed with no flaps on a longer runway. But stall speed on a large jet is fast - 200mph so that would mean a loooong landing roll out.
#19
Took off after a 7 hour delay. Plane climbed for a little bit and went into a pretty tight bank turn. Captain comes on and says there's smoke in the cabin, and we were going in for an emergency landing. As we are coming in, there are the fire trucks and emergency vehicles waiting for us. Long story short...it was a wiring harness for the coffee maker. Swapped it out without even having to deplane. Got free drinks for the rest of the flight.
Cyber Returns 2 years ago
The free drinks were to test that the coffee machine was still working fine and disguised inside other free drinks
David A Paterson 2 years ago
I don't know if there are any words more frightening than "smoke in the cabin".
Zoe Vokes 2 years ago
“Fire in the engine.” I feel that there probably won’t be essential electrical components in the cabin and they have breathable masks that drop down if needed. And no doubt fire extinguishers.
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#20
Flying back to the UK from Finland. During bad weather over the North Sea, the plane just fell straight down for 3 seconds. No time for people to scream, but plenty of time afterwards for even the cabin crew to exchange glances that said "that was scary."
Bookworm 2 years ago (edited)
Sounds like a microburst? They're not super dangerous at cruising altitude to my knowledge; they're extremely dangerous when taking off/landing, but that's because the plane doesn't have enough altitude to recover.
Remi (He/Him) 2 years ago
Also dangerous if you happen to be not wearing the safety belt at the time.
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Karl 2 years ago
Experienced one of those on a flight to Frankfurt. We’d just been served glasses of red wine so when it happened, the wine flew upwards, hit the ceiling before landing on the head of the man in the seat in front of me. The man was furious and I was desperately trying not to laugh.
David A Paterson 2 years ago
Similar here on a flight back from Jamaica. The only victim was a coca cola can that emptied itself on the overhead storage locker when gravity was reversed, then proceeded to rain down on the people below. Frightening, but a good laugh for all.
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I experienced this once. It felt like the plane just dropped like a stone for 2-3 seconds. We briefly went negative gravity. Fortunately it was not during meal time and seatbelt was on so there was not much to fly around. Otherwise everyone's drinks / dinner would have been in their laps and all over the wall. I am assuming wind shear or something similar. I get it - stuff happens. We were fine. BUT - the pat that bugged me was they NEVER commented on it. Pilots and crew just acted like it never happened. You'd think the pilot would come on the intercom to say something reassuring. My guess is they were busy trying not to s**t their pants and avoiding any more such weather cells. I am assuming weather not malfunction because there was no change in speed or pitch like if the plane went into a dive. It was more of a straight down kind of feeling. (I know know really straight down due to air speed)
Ali H M Salehuddin 2 years ago (edited)
Happened to me once. Vertical drop for 1 - 2 seconds but felt like eternity. I have ridden rollercoaster with much longer drop time. The experience was way, way different. One was intentional, this was for real.
Upstaged75 2 years ago
My parents had something happen to them back in the 70's when they were going on their honeymoon. My mom says people were holding cocktails and then all of a sudden the drinks were hovering up near the ceiling of the plane for a moment. :) It was a tiny prop plane, which I refuse to ever fly in!
Marcia Friedman 2 years ago
I flew into Aspen many years ago on a small Frontier aircraft. It was so turbulent flying over the mountains almost everyone was puking in a bag. As I left the plane the Captain was standing next to the exit. I told him I didn't know whether to slap him or kiss him. He said, "Sorry, we were puking in the cockpit too."
Oskar vanZandt 2 years ago
I would be in great distress if something like this happened during a flight I was on. I know, because even mild-moderate turbulence makes my anxiety sky-rocket.
Nadia Dullaghan 2 years ago
My worst flight was between Bristol and Dublin about 10 years ago, plane was rocking as we were boarding, went off the runway during take off and dropped for >3 seconds on SEVERAL occasions. Everyone around me looked as terrified as I felt. Afterwards found out we had taken off in 95km/hr winds and were the last flight out that day. Cried during take off on every flight for about the next two years.
#21
In my teens (2006) I was with a large student group on an "ambassador trip" and on the way home two of us got separated from the rest of the group and had to sit next to a stranger. My friend really wanted the window seat because he didn't get one before and wanted to watch take off. My friend and I fell asleep kind of huddled together but I woke up when the strange guy was slipping his hand up my shorts. I froze. I quietly and repeat poker my friend. Matt woke up and saw what was happening and over dramatically stretched and yawned so the guy stopped. The guy got up to go to the bathroom and Matt called over a chaperone while I burst into tears. The chaperone said she'd take care of it and we saw her talking to the flight attendant and the guy just, never came back... Idk what happened to him but I'm not mad he didn't come back.
Spocks's Mom 2 years ago
Yeah. Too bad you can't throw people overboard without others noticing like a ship. He deserved it.
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Caroline Nagel 2 years ago (edited)
We are no longer on the Middle Ages, why would any man still think - in th 21st century - that assaulting a woman is ok? It wasn't ok then, it isn't ok now. Parents, raise your sons, not only your daughters.
Bubs623 2 years ago
Very similar situation but I was alone, age 14. Flying from San Antonio, Texas to San Francisco. I'd gone to visit my sister and friends I had to leave months earlier because my mom,'dad and I had moved to California. Because of heavy fog, we were diverted from SF and sent to Fresno, CA - which was also shut down because of dog. My parents drove to SFO and then almost 4 hours from SF to Feedno
Riley Quinn 2 years ago
Y'all know a quick punch to the crotch will put a stop to this behavior, right? Teenager or not, learn how to defend yourself against predators because one day there won't be anyone there to come to your rescue.
Nice Beast Ludo 2 years ago
He should have got locked up!! The f**k! One time the bus left half our class behind on a field trip in DC in high school.
#22
Flying in a small 8-seater from the mainland to an island, when a kitten got loose, over pilot's shoulder and generally being frantic. Type of scene that disaster movies start with!
TotallyNOTaFox 2 years ago
Enough is enough! I have had it with these fluffy kittens on this motherfluffin' plane!
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My O My 2 years ago
And in the end the plane blows up and kitties jump out with parachutes
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Paul Jayne 2 years ago
Another cat story. I was at the passenger services desk at Charles de Gaulle Airport and there was a lady there lodging a complaint because she had not been allowed to board her flight. She was carrying a cat wrapped in a towel. The cat seemed quite calm.
#23
On a red-eye flight, a passenger sitting across from me had a night terror. They woke up screaming, thrashing, and didn't recognize where they were. It was unsettling for everyone on board.
StrangeOne 2 years ago
For those who don't know, a night terror is different from a nightmare. The person thinks they're awake, look awake with eyes open, but their brain is in dream mode. So, what they see is the images playing out in their head but they look real and they're body isn't in the state where they are paralyzed, so they can move. My daughter had them as a toddler. It was difficult to console her. When I would hold her in my arms it still took her a long time to calm back down. It's can be a traumatizing experience.
OhnoI’vebeencensored 2 years ago
Except brain wave scans have shown that night terrors don’t occur in REM (dream) sleep, and people almost never remember night terrors. It’s not clear what’s happening in the brain during a night terror. My oldest child gets them occasionally and there’s actually no point trying to comfort her, that seems to make it worse. She goes back to sleeping peacefully after a few minutes.
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Elizabeth 2 years ago
I was sharing a hotel room with my mom, my cousin, and my cousin's (then) young child. We had just spent the day at an amusement park, and we were all going to sleep. All of a sudden, cousin’s child started screaming at the top of her lungs (scared the heck out of me and my mom btw). She was screaming and crying all while cousin was rubbing her back and assuring us that this was "normal". Kid passes back out after a few minutes, and cousin explains that she had night terrors. It can definitely be a shocking experience for outsiders to witness.
Weasel Wise 2 years ago (edited)
I get these. My husband has to wake me up, usually a couple times a month where I'll be screaming in my sleep. The extra shìtty ones are when I'm paralyzed and can't fully wake up but I can feel my paralysis. Yay! My brain is fùcked!
OhnoI’vebeencensored 2 years ago (edited)
Two different things. If your screaming is night terrors, your husband may be better not waking you up (appreciate it’s not easy for him to do nothing!), as you’ll go back to sleep and not remember it. Sleep paralysis is entirely different. But I think having one makes you more likely to have the other.
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Brian Droste 2 years ago
I have had dreams that seem so real then I would wake up for real and realize they were dreams. Most times they were not scary.
OhnoI’vebeencensored 2 years ago
No, the description in the OP is accurate for a night terror. Screaming, thrashing, not knowing where they are. In sleep paralysis you’re, well, paralysed.
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Just after takeoff from Ixtapa Mexico, we were climbing out over the ocean at about 1000 feet when I looked out my window. Headed directly at me about 500 feet away was a twin engine Beechcraft (I think). I would guess it was 3-4 seconds from impact. Fortunately, the pilot of the aircraft saw us and pulled up sharply just in time, missing us by maybe 25 feet. My wife, who's deathly afraid of flying, asked me, "What was that?" I said "nothing" and pretended nothing had happened until we were on the ground in the US, then I told her. Without question, if that pilot had pulled up even a second or two later, everyone on board both planes would have been dead.
Lex <3 (they/them) 2 years ago (edited)
Even that is an understatement... i might even call this petrifyingly horrifyingly terrifyingly startlingly scary
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Charity Angel 2 years ago
A lot of the time, it's because of a couple of factors - the planes often aren't at the correct angles to see each other, and that planes move so fast it's hard to react in time even when you do see the other plane. These were proved back in 1956 (iirc) in the investigation into the Grand Canyon crash. And there are stories of mid-air collisions since - including one where one plane actually survived (very, very unusual), and had no idea what had happened to damage their plane until they were told another plane was missing. Even then, the pilots couldn't believe there was any possibility of a collision because it was not only so rare for it to happen, but it was even more rare for a plane to survive it. Until the other plane was found, and they could match the damage on the surviving plane to the damage on the downed plane. That ended up being a long way of saying "They literally just *can't* see each other".
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Isaac Harvey 2 years ago (edited)
Maybe I’m being naive, but aren’t most, if not all flights pre-planned, with airlines coordinating arrival and departure times so as to minimize risks?
DeoManus Argentem 2 years ago
If it was a small private recreational plane (poster mentioned a beechcraft) they probably hadn't even filed a flight plan. When I was taking recreational flying lessons (granted this was as a teenager 25+ years ago) we just hopped in and took off! Though long ago, this was in the US in South Florida (so definitely not the boonies) - this post happened in Mexico, we don't know when, but I would bet the procedures/practices are way more lax! And/or it was a smuggler flight.
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Seadog 2 years ago
Exactly what I was thinking. Maybe it was some wise a**es way of having fun with the passengers. Where I live, our area of the county is approved for stunt flying. There's never been a crash in my area. I did learn years ago to not be close by when a balloon lands. Anyone able bodied and close by gets handed a rope and told to pull as hard as they can.
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#25
Was in turbulence so bad the stewardesses looked scared. At least 10 people threw up. Lightning outside the plane, side to side turbulence in addition to up and down, and it lasted for a long time. Round of applause when the captain announced we were through it. Apparently we had to fly several hundred miles out of our way to avoid a hurricane. The turbulence was what it was like *outside* of the danger zone.
ί𝔫ＣίŦᵃт𝐔𝐬 2 years ago
This happened when landing at LaGuardia (NYC), just this same kind of turbulence all the way in, circling forever, trying to land and getting one wheel on the tarmac, taking off again. We were rerouted to Philadelphia, still shaking the whole time. I was so incredibly sick. We had to take a coach bus back up to NYC.
Upstaged75 2 years ago
I once flew through a thunder storm while sitting in the very last row of the plane. Apparently that's the bounciest place to be during turbulence. It was terrifying! Funny enough a random little kid sitting next to me to told me not to worry after I slammed the window shade closed because I could see lightning all around us. I remember thinking turbulence was awesome when I was a kid too. :)
AngelWingsYT 2 years ago
Flew around the hurricane coming uo from Florida hit the VERY edge of it.wasmt this bad but plan got a good shaking
Riley Quinn 2 years ago
This type of motion is expected on a roller coaster, but not on a plane.
Lex <3 (they/them) 2 years ago
As a person with an intense fear of both turbulence, heights, small spaces, and vomiting, I probably would've been passed out lmao
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Zoe Vokes 2 years ago
Probably not if the stewardesses looked scared. Sounds like it was unusually bad turbulence.
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Flying into Denver, our plane dropped about 1,000 ft in severe turbulence and this mother f****r was "just trying to get something out of his bag" after the announcement from the pilot about upcoming turbulence and the flight attendants yelling at him. He flew into the ceiling and slammed into the ground like something out of a movie and then got absolutely chewed out by the FAs. It was scary, I guess due to the Rockies and the Denver plain it causes some bad turbulence.
Fun Fan 2 years ago
Maybe, he should have... nothing vital, just for a good reminder to never be an arsehole again...
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The Reno, Nevada airport is horrible with turbulence cuz of the mountains. I get sick every time.
Brainmas 2 years ago
It's always so windy, I hate even driving through there sometimes.
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Almarako94 2 years ago
Should have filmed it and use it as an intro video for every flight on why to listen to the pilot.
StrangeOne 2 years ago
Can happen anywhere. It happened on one flight from Toronto to Manchester UK over the Atlantic. A lady I worked with said her plane hit turbulence that caused it dropped altitude like that going from Winnipeg to Jamaica.
Thee8thsense 2 years ago
Colorado is notorious for turbulent flights. Flew into Telluride once and it was so bad everyone was throwing up into the air sickness bags. Just a wonderful time had by all.
Thee8thsense 2 years ago
I did too. Can't stand those who think rules don't apply to them, especially in such closed environments.
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Catherine Spencer-Mills 2 years ago
I've flown into Denver in weather like that. Not something I want to experience again.
#27
Someone brought their cat on-board in a carrier and put it under their seat. As if listening to a screaming cat for 6 hours wasn't enough ...it s**t in its carrier so the entire plane smelled like fresh cat s**t. The woman took it to the bathroom to clean it and got cat s**t all over the bathroom ...... fun times
Karen Startz Richardson 2 years ago
This reminds me of a time that a sibling had flown her 2 cats from Alaska to Texas. My parents picked the cats up @ the airport. Both were covered in poo. Mom & Dad drove for 4 hours with 2 poo- covered, howling cats...cat windows down, in order to survive it all. Mom said that the worst of it wasn't the drive...but releasing the latch on each cage...and having to quickly grab hold of & then BATHE those cats. Good times, I'm sure. 😳
Amelia Jade 2 years ago (edited)
We flew from Japan to the states with our two cats. It was many hours of travel. When we got to our destination, one of our cats smelled heavily of urine. We were not popular on the shuttle to the car rental place. Our first stop was a store to get litter and a box. When we got to where we were staying, we set up the box and the cat that didn't smell went straight to the box and peed for the longest time. Poor cat had held it all that time. I felt terrible. Hope to never have to put cats through something like that again.
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DJR 2 years ago (edited)
My wife realized she put the cats' sedatives in the checked bags on a flight from Honolulu to DC. At least they didn't s**t their carriers, but I do feel sorry for those around us having to listen to their howls. I had to hold the zippered enclosure because the younger cat had figured out how to open it. Those poor cats moved with us to/from Honolulu/East Coast US 4 times.
Freya the Wanderer 2 years ago
I used to have a cat who experienced seizures (thankfully, for only a couple years). When I gave her medication to control the seizures, she became dopey. That was nice for when I had to take her in my car because she HATED car travel. I had to take her on some long car trips - think Atlanta to Wichita - so at least I had something to tranquilize her with.
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Alecto76 2 years ago
I bought my mouse on the plane flying from college to home (1 hour). I put her in her ball with some cotton balls and put her in my back pack. Ran her through the XR machine at security without issue. Talked to her the whole flight in case she was scared. My mom was worried that she would explode because of pressure so at the gate (90s) she grabbed my bag and was loudly asking if she was ok. Probably confirming to those near me on the flight that there was something in there. Overall, all was well.
Upstaged75 2 years ago
My cat always poops in her carrier on the way to the vet. Every damn time! And it stinks up my car like crazy. But at least I can roll down the windows to air it out. I can't imagine being trapped in an airplane with that smell!
pocwaddler 2 years ago
My daughter was flying home from college to bring us her cat. Locked cat in the bathroom so she could catch it, and then couldn't open the door. Had to bash in the door, stuff the freaked out cat into a carrier and dash to the airport, only to miss her direct flight. My wife had to rebook over the phone while I was talking to daughter, and could hear the cat yowling in the line at the airport. She had to take the cat out of the carrier for security, getting slashed by the frantic kitty's claws. Finally got him home and kept him for the next ten years; just passed away last year.
SadieCat17 (she/her) 2 years ago
I flew overseas with my cat twice (her nickname is mrs. worldwide) and she was great. 10 hour flight and she didn't make a mess or yell at all. She did the smart thing and slept through the flight. Didn't even need kitty valium or anything. There was a bit of a fuss at security because strangers had to handle her, but she did great overall.
#28
A woman died in the seat next to me on a flight from Australia to the US. She appeared to just be asleep, but couldn’t be roused by her traveling companions. Eventually the flight attendants laid her on the floor and a doctor examined her. After a few minutes they carried her to the back of the plane. I later asked a flight attendant when we landed and she told me the woman had died.
Caroline Nagel 2 years ago (edited)
My dad and stepmother had a man die on their flight from the US to the UK. The plane was too far out to turn around, the FA's just left the man in his seat and put a blanket over him.
#29
One of those idiots in the Ultralights flying around at a few thousand feet over a small city right in the approach pattern for major airlines. I’m disgusted by these people as they are a MAJOR hazard as they often times don’t talk, squawk or give any indication that they are there until its too late.
Ashlisha 2 years ago
Not sure if Ultralights are even legal any longer. Prior to that I believe you needed to be a certain distance from an airport and fly under a specific altitude because they do not have radio/communication abilities.
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The Idaho Potato 2 years ago
For those of you who don't know, a squawk code enables ATC to identify aircraft.
Riley Quinn 2 years ago
This is entirely against FAA regulations. With any luck, this a-hole was arrested on the ground.
Roger9er 2 years ago
There should be high fines for flying in one of those things! They endanger everyone.
Brocken Blue 2 years ago
That’s… ridiculous, from a pilots point of view. Ultralights actually require *less* training and certification than regular GA aircraft because they are so generally harmless to folks on the ground. There’s rules to ensure they generally stay over less populated areas, but even if one of these went down in your back yard, you’d likely have to stand still and let it hit you directly before it’s a really big threat to your health and safety. I’d much rather be hit by an average ultralight than your average car ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Load More Replies... Tim 2 years ago
Now they require a light sport license to operate in the US. They typically dont have the equipment (or even the power to operate such equipment) onboard. But generally have so little gas and range that people fly them within a 5 mile radius and below 800 feet. Stall speed on those things is about the speed of a bicycle so pitching for glide generally never results in a crash per se but more of a controlled ditching. Most pilots dont really want to fly slower than they can drive a car so they are not very popular.
SadieCat17 (she/her) 2 years ago
Yeah but pedestrians shouldn't belong in the sky where there are real aircraft around.
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#30
Flying out of Chengdu China in the early 80s on an old Russian turboprop. It was a wicked snowstorm and I am thinking there is no way we are taking off in this mess. Visibility was only a few hundred feet. I am looking around in panic and I realize the guy sitting across the aisle from me is the spitting image of Buddy Holly. I recall thinking that if this guy pulls a guitar out of the overhead bin and starts singing Peggy Sue, we are all f****d
#31
This is a long one so buckle up, fold up those tray tables and put your seats in the upright position.. I was a flight attendant twenty years ago. The flight that made me quit was from South Bend, Indiana to Minneapolis. It started out with a funny story of having a p**n star on our little regional flight. (50 seat CRJ, I was the only flight attendant) I got a chuckle out of how amped the gate agent was about it. He was obviously a fan. Anyways, everything else was normal other than it not being a very full flight. We take off and I am in the jump seat, chilling and waiting for the fist ding to tell me we are out of sterile cockpit (over 10k ft) when the ventilation system suddenly kicks on. It was then that my oh s**t reflexes kick in because all I can smell is burning though there isn't any smokey haze. For a hot minute I thought I was imagining it but when I looked up, one of the passengers in front of me makes eye contact and gives me a look that confirms I am not the only one smelling it. No one else notices, again it was odd but the first three rows were vacant since the flight was only half full. So for the first time ever, I reached up and grabbed the phone to the cockpit and hit the emergency button which alerts the cockpit but not any passengers unless they know what the flashing light means above my head. The captain answers and it sounds like he is Darth Vader since the two of them have their oxygen masks on. I said quietly into the phone, "what the f**k is happening?" They tell me they don't know and they need me to get up and check behind the galley cart, the lavatory, and then to pull up the hatch to the avionics bay since they can't figure out where it is coming from and there aren't any alarms going off. Apparently air traffic control couldn't see from the ground if we were on fire either. So I try to as calmly as I can, move through the cabin without making any sort of scene even though I am pretty much thinking we're all going to die at this point and my throat is burning from breathing in the fumes. Again, no one noticed and I am grateful seeing as the three of us crew members were on the same "we're going to die" wavelength. Literally nobody even batted an eyelash at me crawling on the floor and pulling up the hatch to the avionics bay. (I still have no idea how no one thought that was out of the ordinary.) So there was nothing that I could see on my side, no visible fire or smoke. I call back to the cockpit and they say that thankfully they're going to let us land and that while we wait for clearance, they are going to "vent" the cabin to clear some of the fumes. At this point, I buckle myself back into the jump seat and try not to look freaked out as I face the twenty five souls in the seats in front of me as the captain announces to the aircraft that there are fumes and we need to vent them as we need to go back to the airport due to mechanical issues. Yeah, blank stares are aimed in my direction and I just smile and nod as if this is standard procedure. None of this is standard. So the venting is supposed to feel like a little puff of air next to your ears but it felt like one of those air cannons punching you in the side of your face which was just delightful but soon after we were on the ground safely and I get to work getting everyone off this missile to hell so I can have my freak out moment in private. The two pilots and myself wind up chain smoking out front of the airport and not speaking to each other for about a half an hour. What caused all of this was that the engine had been washed that morning at the maintenance bay but it was not rinsed or ran properly to let the chemicals burn off or rinse out. That was what was causing the fumes. An hour later we were back on the same aircraft and flew back to Minneapolis without issue. I quit the week after. A close second was hearing the warning messages to the captain during takeoff once. Imagine being in the jump seat and hearing behind you, "WINDSHEAR! WINDSHEAR! PULL UP! PULL UP!" while trying to act like everything is cool. I hated that airline so damn much.
Remi (He/Him) 2 years ago
I think the point was more about the sh*tty job the engine cleaners had done.
Load More Replies... Trish 2 years ago
What was the relevance of the porn star? I expected them to have a part in the actual story.
SadieCat17 (she/her) 2 years ago
Neat little thing that happened. Not necessarily relevant, but funny.
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craggyman@msn.com 2 years ago
I’m sorry this happened to you, but THOSE WEREN’T FUMES! I get so tired of this! It was smoke. Fumes are the by-product of burning metal. It bugs me as much as saying “decimated” (loss of 10percent), when one means “devastated” (utterly destroyed).
Bob Brooce 2 years ago
I'm devastated to hear that you don't have a clue what a common word like "fumes" actually means. I'd guess that your brain cells have been decimated, but I think it would take even more damage than that.
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#32
I was on a plane that crashed into a field, and walked away completely uninjured. This was just outside my home city.
The plane was restored, and still flies today.
SmooshieFries 2 years ago
My husband used to be on the team that flew to broken planes, all over the world actually. His main job was building the planes but on a special team went to fix them. He's fixed downed planes from Tx to Saudi Arabia to Brazil and all over in between. He repaired "the skin" and wiring, the wings, crashed out bellies of the planes until HE felt safe to fly on it. My guy is awesome!!
Sand Ers 2 years ago
OP on the reddit thread won't provide any. In a way that makes me suspect the story is complete bs.
Load More Replies... Catherine 2 years ago (edited)
I don't like that last part😳 I think planes should be scrapped they go down! I know money investment blah blah I don't care
The Idaho Potato 2 years ago
Eh, some can be repaired in a way that makes them perfectly safe to fly.
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#33
Coming in for a landing, about 75' off the ground and we start heading back up. There was a plane under us waiting to depart.
OneHappyPuppy 2 years ago
Yup, happened to me once, our landing was delayed half an hour and we were just circling the city limits for what felt like an eternity... Not scary per se but just annoying
Freya the Wanderer 2 years ago
Just another reason to drive - if you can.
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#34
On an airplane, but not technically a flight. Sitting at the end of the runway, pilot doing his pre-flight or something. There was a fireball in one of the engines. Passengers panicked, flight attendants popped the emergency doors and the emergency slides deployed. It was mayhem; people knocking others down, crawling over the seats, lots of screaming. Several people were injured. Of those I saw - one man fell off the wing, found out later he broke his arm and collarbone. Another fell off the middle of the slide. She went away holding her wrist, not sure of what happened. Guy in front of me on the slide tumbled face first at the bottom of the slide, got up with a bloodied face. Emergency slides are not fun. It's not like in the movies. The ironic thing was, there was no danger to the aircraft or passengers.
UpupaEpops 2 years ago
Very often it's not the emergency itself, but people's reaction to it is what's truly dangerous.
Brian Droste 2 years ago
If people just would not panic in situations like this, everyone would get out safe and sound in a timely manner without any injuries or very little injuries. I cannot say I would stay calm myself. Not sure how I would react in a situation like this.
Rilmar 2 years ago
It wasn't an organized evacuation - people panicked and chaos ensued. Even an organized evacuation, called for by the crew, usually results in some injuries. As for the "fireball", it sounds like a compressor stall - for whatever reason, the airflow to the engine was disrupted for a moment. It's also possible some debris was ingested into the engine
Emily Anderson 2 years ago
I bet those people in the emergency row regretted their “yes I’ll help” that day…
Nice Beast Ludo 2 years ago
It sounds like it was a comedy movie...I was picturing a scene that was over the top horrifying but also exaggerated like a will ferrell movie lol
#35
This was in 2015 (luckily not during Covid as I probably would have been kicked off the flight). But suddenly I felt a tickle in my throat, so I started coughing. But I COULD NOT STOP COUGHING. No matter what I did I could not get that tickle out. The people around me were understanding, but I decided to go to the back of the plane just to be courteous. The flight attendants gave me ice and that was the only thing that would give me any sort of relief. We finally landed. That night I went to bed and woke up at 5am with a swollen shut eye, huge f*****g lips, hives ALL over my body, and a tightness in my chest. Turns out I was having a severe allergic reaction to something I ate(?) at airport or something on the plane. My throat was literally CLOSING on the plane. That’s why the ice was helping because it was bringing down the swelling. But here’s the weird f*****g thing. I’ve never been allergic to anything in my life before OR since that incident. So it’s a huge freaking mystery. The hives also showed up in different places on my body each morning for two weeks after. In July I got bed bug bites on an airplane. They didn’t travel with me to my house (thank god) but I’m still scarred from them on my skin since I had a bad reaction to them. Honolulu airport also had recently shut town a terminal for bed bugs.
StrangeOne 2 years ago
You could think you're not allergic to anything until you've come across your allergy. Some allergies develop or get worse over time.
Weasel Wise 2 years ago
Happened to me with kiwis 🙁 when I would eat a kiwi, I always thought the slight tingling feeling in my mouth was the same thing like pineapple enzymes. A few years ago, I thought I would start my day with a tasty kiwi snack and play some video games...then my mouth and throat felt like it was being torn apart as everything swelled. And did you know white onion and kiwis are related via birch pollen? Cuz I found out several days later, when I was able to have solid foods again. 😒
Load More Replies... Robin 2 years ago
I sometimes have a lower level of this from perfume. It can be horrible when stuck to next to someone who smells lovely but will make me cough until I feel like I'm going to chuck.
DarkViolet 2 years ago
Precisely why medical offices request that you do not wear fragrances of any kind.
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B.Nelson 2 years ago
I have skin allergies that can give me severe hives from transference. I was had an allergic reaction after using a camera someone else had used previously. I thought I had wiped it down enough, but I guess not.
KittyMommy 2 years ago
That would be me and a lot of cleaning products. A coworker had used my desk while I was on vacation. She normally worked in a different office and hadn't been told not to wipe my desk down with anything. She used Lysol spray. I got back, was sitting at my desk for a couple of hours and it dawned on me my nails were wet. I'd broken out in hives all along my forearms and then scratched them open. She got a very graphic display of why people weren't allowed to clean my desk with anything
Load More Replies... Remi (He/Him) 2 years ago
Sometimes you can have a mild pollen allergy for example for birch, but that can cause a cross allergic reaction during the pollen season with something else for example with fruits, veggies or nuts that you normally don't react to
Hey! 2 years ago
I'm always scared this will happen to me when I see people bringing their pets with them. I see them at the airport but never actually saw one boarding a plane I was in. I'm extremely allergic to pets. This could have been me BUT I also always carry activated charcoal so it would have helped me a lot, especially with the swelling.
Kim Kermes 2 years ago
I had that happen to me when I was flying military space available on a medivac flight from Germany to Spain. One of the nurses came to check on me and brought me orange juice. The acid cleared whatever it was, but the bitterness almost made me throw up. I was most embarrassed, in uniform and all.
Mario Strada 2 years ago
I have never been allergic to anything, except for one spring season around 1987. That spring I became allergic to the pollen in the air and I was miserable for a week. Never again since, even though I still live in the same area. Bizarre!
DarkViolet 2 years ago
Just recently found out that I am allergic to shrimp. I was wondering why, in a roomful of people, I was the only one who couldn't keep anything down or up after ingesting it.
#36
As we're all getting finally settled into our seats and they're about to lock up the overhead bins, this kid about 4 years old, wearing an NHL jersey, standing on his seat looking backwards at us, starts vigorously licking the top of the seat, like, vigorously, like it was a popsicle, the whole top of the seat, all of it, the piping and the seams, all while staring dead in our eyes. His parents did not stop this and it went on for ages. Haunting.
Leanne Hailes 2 years ago
Children coping with their disabilities are very brave
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censorshipsucks 2 years ago
I find it easy to deal with these. You just find a horror movie trailer on your phone and show the kid, they always f**k right off.
Panda Dressed as a Capybara ;) 2 years ago
"But, but, I just wanted the rest of my jolly rancher!"
#37
Flying from Hartford to Dulles during severe snow storm aboard a United commuter jet, one row of single seats, one row of double. Well into the flight the pilot comes on intercom to say we may have to turn back because we don’t have enough fuel to circle Dulles if necessary. Plane is rocked by turbulence. I look out my window and see that the clouds are coming toward me, yes, the plane appeared to be going sideways. We eventually landed with more than one person quietly crying. The poor flight attendant was sitting on the floor in the front of the plane as we exited. The pilot did not make an appearance. I could only imagine he was unable to pry his fingers off the controls.
Rilmar 2 years ago
When there's a stronger crosswind (wind blowing at an angle to the runway), the plane will position itself facing the wind and while the path will be straight to the runway, the nose of the plane will point off the side. Either just before the touchdown or upon the touch down, the plane will straighten up. Standard operations, no reasons to worry
Hugh Cookson 2 years ago
Good when you know this, not so good if you don't ......
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#38
Barely had our butts in the seat and a woman turned to us and said “are you two teachers?”. We responded with “no” and then she proceeded to talk THE ENTIRE 9 hour flight about herself. Husband pretended to fall asleep within the hour and I find it painfully hard to stop conversations with friendly people. Ugh, AND we were seated right beside the toilets which smelt of old pee
LegendsNeverDIE 2 years ago
Shoulda told her to shut up and then proceed to snore loudly in her face :)
Koko 2 years ago
I have zero problems stopping convos, just go "it was nice chatting with you but I'm going to focus on something else so Im going to stop talking now. you have a great day" people are so taken aback by that they normally don't talk back but if they are persistent. Just smile and nod and go back to what you are doing.
Michael Largey 2 years ago
"We're not teachers. But on the other hand, nobody called on you, did they?"
#39
I had a woman next to me on a 15-hour flight, with two kids under 5. She sat next to me with the kids on the aisle, and the first thing she did was apologize for what was to come. It was terrible, stuff constantly knocked onto the floor, a drink spilled on my leg ... but that was just the woman herself. She soon swapped seats, and the kids just did normal kid stuff. They were not so bad at all, aside from the occasional accidental bump when they squirmed, while she continued to drop stuff on the floor: food, drink, phone, basically anything on her tray table was going to be on the floor sooner or later.
Stephanie Did It 2 years ago
I've observed in crowded places that there are some people who take up a lot more space than they physically need. It's like they can't figure out how to use or fit into the area they occupy.
Spocks's Mom 2 years ago
My former employer is like that. I started calling her "Grace" as an ironic nickname. No spacial awareness and had to hoard everything out and knock things everywhere.
Load More Replies... Weasel Wise 2 years ago
Seattle to Singapore: couple with a baby that started crying an hour into the flight. Poor baby cried for about 20 minutes of every hour and the parents would take turns walking the screaming baby up and down the aisle each time. 😒😒😒😒😒😒
David A Paterson 2 years ago
What neurological disease would cause that? Multiple sclerosis? Cerebral palsy?
Paul Jayne 2 years ago
On the good side. I was flying from Sydney to LA by myself and was seated in the aisle seat of the middle section A380. Next to me was a small kid, then another small kid, then their dad. Over the way was their mum nursing a bub. You can imagine my thoughts about now. Anyways, the dad kept the kids occupied for the entire flight. He chatted to them, played word games with them ( they were speaking French) and sorted their meals and snacks and toilet visits whilst mum attended to the very quiet baby. Very rare.
#40
Easy Jet flight from Nice to London about 10 years ago. French guy sat behind me had a phobia of flying so we had the whole crew including the pilot visit him in his seat before the flight took off to reassure him it will be fine and nothing to worry about. 20 mins after take off a message from the crew informs the passengers that there has been a technical issue with the aircraft and we will be returning to Nice. Immediately, the guy behind me freaks out, tears streaming down his face, slapping himself in the face and loudly shouting.The the cabin crew run over in numbers to help this poor guy out. He eventually calms down. We land 20 mins later at Nice, as soon as we land, our plane gets surrounded by fire engines, ambulances and police, we are sat just off the main runway, far away from the terminal where passengers could disembark. The guy behind me jumps out of his seat and tries to run towards the front of the plane and is restrained by other passengers and the crew. An hour later or so, we still hadn't moved and the crew had announced to the passengers that they could get water from the areas at the front and back of the aircraft. The queue at the bottom of the aircraft started a few rows behind from where I was sat. A young guy in the queue started stumbling backwards and smashes his head into the floor and starts fitting. Literally shaking on the floor next to my seat at this point, young guy too, no more than 21 years old. Paramedics were onboard within 5 mins or so.
David A Paterson 2 years ago (edited)
That is a very different kind of horror. Three major incidents on one flight.
René Sauer 2 years ago
If the plane was surrounded by ambulances why did it take them five minutes to respond to the young guy at the end?
Keller Worthen 2 years ago
Had to get stairs to the plane and get the doors opened
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Sathe Wesker 2 years ago
The young guy had a seizure. Hands down. I’ve had enough of them to know.
#41
I had food poisoning on a Transatlantic flight from JFK to Heathrow. To top that off, we hit a large area of turbulence for an hour and a half which led to the fasten seat belt signs to be on. After the 2nd rush to the toilet during this turbulence, the flight attendants seemed to decide all subsequent efforts to stop me would not be in anyone's best interest. Everyone behind us (myself and a friend) knew what was going on and it would have been humiliating if I wasn't wishing the plane would dive into the Atlantic to end the nightmare.
T5n 2 years ago
At least it wasn’t a flight from Los Angeles to Chicago, I hear the food poisoning can be quite bad if you get the fish.
Sand Ers 2 years ago
No worry. The autopilot can fly as soon as the stewardess finishes inflating him.
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ChickyChicky 2 years ago
The nice thing about airplane bathrooms is that the sink is right next to the toilet, so you can diarrhea and vomit at the same time with easy clean-up. Ask me how I know!
SincerelyMeesh 2 years ago
I got food poisoning on a flight from Atlanta to Seattle. I never get motion sick (grew up on a boat). I kept apoligizing to the couple next to me. After about the 5th "I'm sorry" the husband said "I am a teacher, she is a nurse, we have 5 kids, you are fine"
Ashlisha 2 years ago
Airport food is notoriously poorly regulated in the U.S. I have been there and done the bathroom run, and I have also been told that if I got up while on the runway(we had been delayed for 2 hours while in the plane). I never eat airport food.
Ashlisha 2 years ago
Sorry I was told that it was illegal for me to attempt to use the bathroom while on the runway, and I would be arrested if I got up and went to the bathroom. Hindsight, I was is so much pain, arrest may have been easier.
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What are the odds, it happened two days ago. I was on a flight. As soon as I sat down, the person next me asked me if I knew Jesus. I said I didn't. Anyway, we were heading to our destination, it was really bumpy, there was a lot of wind and turbulence. At some point, the person next to me whispered "we're all born sinners." Anyway, we went to land and it was horrible. The plan was tipping to the sides heaps and bumping up and down. We got to about 20 meters above the runway when the plane tilted up and essentially took off again, shot back up. Apparently it was too hazardous to try and land. At this point the person two seats behind me started having a panic attack. We went for a second attempt. The person behind me was sobbing and talking about how we're all gonna die and the person next to me had her eyes shut and was praying fervently. Again, we got just above the ground and took off again. We then enjoyed an extremely turbulent ride back to where we started, where we landed in nearly just as strong wind. It was a very cliche bad plane experience
SkyBlueandBlack 2 years ago
I would totally be okay with flight attendants having tranquilizer darts for some passengers.
Kazza 2 years ago
Haha I’m the one that would need that dart! I think it’s a great idea.
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Michael Largey 2 years ago
Yes, we are all born sinners. But you have to keep in practice, or you'll lose the knack.
Bob Brooce 2 years ago
I they'd asked me if I know jesus they'd probably have been praying to meet him by the time I was done answering.
Thee8thsense 2 years ago
I would have replied to "Do you know Jesus?" with, "Yes, I love cheeses!". Then would have named and discussed every variety of cheese I could think of.
#43
In First Class, leaving London, before takeoff an American guy starts screaming in pain. Lands on floor, writhing. “My…appendix!” They hauled him off. FA asks his buddy if he wants to go with his sick friend. “Nah, I’m good,” he says.
Kim Kermes 2 years ago
On a military charter from Philly to Germany, well over the ocean, we're told we're going back to Bangor, Maine for a medical emergency. Luckily we had a medical officer aboard who diagnosed a hot appendix. The airport blocked off the gate, brought in vendors carts, and we were allowed off in groups during refueling. Very nice of them, I thought.
DJR 2 years ago
Bangor is really nice to the military. There were over 100 people to greet us in the middle of the night when I came back from my first trip to Iraq. They had snacks, boxes of girl scout cookies, and loaner cell phones for us.
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S P 2 years ago
What I love about this scene is the FA's face. It's a "Everyone thinks he's soooo nice" moment.
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Mary Beth Miller 2 years ago
This is plot from TV show, Ted Lasso. When Coach Beard wants to stay in London but needs a reason to get off the plane.
#44
Was in a small 4 seat Beechcraft with friends - one of whom was the pilot - flying through clouds when pilot/friend said to other guy “horizon indicator wasn’t working.” I thought but didn’t say out loud “isn’t that like REALLY FREAKING IMPORTANT TO HAVE?” Well, we got home safely so apparently not.
80 Van 2 years ago
I thought the story was going to end with “we suddenly saw a commercial plane and the pilot pulled up right before impact.”
Gustav Gallifrey 2 years ago
There's a scene in an Australian movie with the guys in a light plane which hasn't been used for a while. At one point, the pilot taps at an instrument on the panel, and says 'gees, i hope that's broken'.
Cathy 2 years ago
I though you shouldn't fly through clouds with tiny airplanes. Source: the one flight lesson I once had.
Jake B 2 years ago
Snowstorm coming out of Casper WY. 7 seater, got in the air and then we were in clouds. Suddenly it cleared and all you could see out the front of the plane was white. Steep climb later and we cleared the mountain. Pilot and co-pilot looked at each other and slowly started laughing. Everyone else finished prayers and sighed in relief. Scary but the rest of the flight was fine. Last time I packed my Indiana Jones fedora. Every single time…. Something always happened.
Load More Replies... Riley Quinn 2 years ago
We all have fears and phobias, but we shouldn't subject others to our hysteria. If you're afraid of flying you've got two choices: get Immersion therapy prior to flying or find another form of transportation.
Shaunn Munn 2 years ago
That would only be an issue if the plane was on instruments. If you can see the horizon, the attitude indicator isn't critical. Early aviators didn't have them because they weren't invented yet.
Seadog 2 years ago
It's only really important if 1) you can't see where you're going and 2) if you're not flying higher than the terrain.
Charity Angel 2 years ago
I'd really very much like for every single plane to fly higher than the terrain. It's them trying to fly lower than it that causes most problems.
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Right wing started to leak fuel to the point that we needed an immediate emergency landing. Whole team of firefighters waiting for the landing plane to catch fire on the runway
Rostit. . 2 years ago
jet fuel is pretty hard to ignite like that. Its fairly safe until you atomize it.
WonderWoman 2 years ago
Yeah, they just had a whole team of firefighters out there for sh!ts and giggles.
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A guy have a domestic dispute with his girlfriend on a Norwegian Air flight from Prague to New York, he was cursing and screaming and eventually hit her and the flight attendants moved her seat. The rest of the flight he was pacing the aisles and staring at his gf furiously. The flight attendants didn’t do Jack s**t and he never got arrested or anything . I wrote to Norwegian air and never heard anything back
Helen Taylor 2 years ago
I saw a similar situation on the ground in Paris. Grabbed the nearest Gendarme. They didn't do anything because that was still acceptable if it was domestic. Sad.
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Mel Colley 2 years ago
Don't be a jerk, silowew, the flight staff could have contacted airport security from the plane!!!
#47
The absolute rank BO of some hipster looking guy sitting behind my daughter and I on a 4 hour flight.
Weasel Wise 2 years ago
Hong Kong to San Francisco: nearly empty flight cuz of Chinese New Year, it was glorious. Then the man in front of me got up and went to the toilet for quite some time....came back to his seat with a stank-trail that didn't go away for HOURS. Smelled like he had eaten rotten, fish-poo diapers.
Anikulapo 2 years ago (edited)
Sat next to a guy once who stank like hell. Short 2 hour thankfully. Got off the plane, I could still smell it. Then I realised that the smell came from a brand new t-shirt I was wearing. I don’t normally wear new clothes without wearing them, and I certainly never did that again.
Sue User 2 years ago
I bought a shirt in dallas fw because i was freezing on the plane. It too smelked funny, and i took it off
Load More Replies... Nikki Hilton 2 years ago
My daughter just took a flight and said crying babies were no problem, but someone who was lactose intolerant had eaten a bunch of cheese and the results were awful.
DarkViolet 2 years ago
Apparently someone who never heard of lactase caplets.
Load More Replies... Brian Droste 2 years ago
Need a BO meter for people ,like that. If it goes off need to ,prevent people from boarding the plane.. Not on a plane but at a movie theater. I went to go to see a movie. Got a seat. Some guy comes to sit down next to me and he had very bad BO. Said something to me. I didn't respond. Don't know why but he got up and moved to another seat. I was grateful.
CanadianaKa 2 years ago
I had that just last week. Guy in front of me liked to sit with his hands on his head, airing his pits. Ye gads.... I spent the majority of the flight with my tshirt over my nose.
Riley Quinn 2 years ago
This is a common occurrence on mass transit. Sure, it's not for four hours, but it is daily, so there's that.
#48
Just (but didn’t feel like “just” at the time) really bad turbulence; people’s purses hit the ceiling of the cabin and I think some people who weren’t belted in injured themselves too. People were screaming / praying / crying (I was in that last category). I wasn’t crazy about flying before but that experience put me into phobia territory and I didn’t fly afterwards for probably about ten years, and still weigh it as a cost/benefit thing whenever I travel. It’s helped a bit to learn that turbulence isn’t really a thing that causes plane crashes, as far as I now understand, but it can feel very different in that moment to the illogical mind.
StrangeOne 2 years ago
The most dangerous part of the flight is the take off and landing. Chances are if those go well the rest of the flight and getting to the airport will go smooth.
Oskar vanZandt 2 years ago
My logical brain knows this... my anxiety-ridden brain does not.
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Melissa Powell 2 years ago
My husband was an AF pilot. We are flying to Germany to be stationed there for 3 years, YEA. AF passenger plane, no amenities, ok a bathroom. Barely off the coast of the US, turn around and go back to NJ. Wait a couple a couple hours get back on. It is January, I am from CA. Cold weather that I have not experienced in a long time. This is a slow plane. Land in the Azores beautiful weather. Load up and land in Frankfurt, colder than hell, I mean really cold, I spent a week or two being very sick. Loved that tour, loved Germany. Very very beautiful country.
#49
Someone died on my flight from NY to Rome. They didn’t tell us until the end when paramedics came onto the plane.
TotallyNOTaFox 2 years ago (edited)
Makes sense, having passengers in panic in a flying tin can is probably not the best idea
Riley Quinn 2 years ago
Funny isn't, when someone dies in a public space like a plane or theater, how management don't come over the loud speaker and make a grand announcement like it's anybody else's business.
#50
Landing at night time, and just as we're about to land it gets really bumpy and seems to drop. Engines really, really sounding like they're straining. I've flown quite a fair bit and never had anything as terrifying. And one that's not really terrifying at the time, but kinda makes you think. Was in a small plane coming in for a landing, and just as it's about to set down suddenly climbs up again. Turns out the pilot isn't sure if the landing gear is actually down or not.
Julieta S. 2 years ago
Worst one for me was just a few months ago, I was traveling from Mexico to NY with my youngest daughter (20) who has serious anxiety issues. She was in the window seat overlooking the wing. Suddenly, we see a blinding light and lightning hits the wing right where we are seated. I grabbed her hand and prayed that whatever happened it would be fast, if you're scared for yourself just imagine for your kids! Thankfully, she remained calm because she saw I was losing it and just held my hand and said nothing. The passengers behind me were crying and pushing the call button ( no one came). After the most agonizing ten minutes, the pilot comes on to say, we know we had an incident, but we see nothing wrong with the aircraft so we will proceed. I had already texted the rest of my kids that I loved them and what had happened, we were all in goodbye mode :( Awful. I had to take tranquilizers for the flight back lol
Brian Droste 2 years ago
Isn't there some kind of instrument that tells you if the landing gear is down? Don't know about small planes, but if not they should make it standard on all planes no matter what size.
What do you think ?
Agfox 2 years ago
My wife & I had just boarded a flight from Melbourne to Singapore, my wife in the window seat, me in the middle & a young woman with a baby in arms in the aisle seat. Guy in the row in front had been up & down several times fiddling with his hard shell case & it slid out of his hands. I was reading the entertainment guide when the case fell past me & hit the baby. Cabin staff member was called & the woman & baby were offloaded so the baby cold be taken to the airport medical clinic. Cabin staff took a statement from the guy in front then asked us if we'd seen anything, I mentioned that the guy had been up & down to the case several times but we didn't see anything until it was too late to help. We felt upset for most of the flight, stayed overnight in Singapore, resumed our trip the next day & one of the same cabin staff was on board. She recognised us & advised that the baby had not been injured & the couple resumed their travel to Singapore on a later flight the same day
Pittsburgh rare 2 years ago
I'm terrified of flying so l don't know why l thought this was a good idea. Gonna look for a pups post or something.
Kathy Wilbourne 2 years ago
I was on NY to London flight when I suddenly developed an ear infection. It was so painful I screamed into a pillow for the rest of the flight. That was long ago, before I (or the flight attendants) knew what to do about it. I was alone and had the entire upper level of a 747 to myself, so it wasn't quite as bad as it might have been. Saw the doctor at the airport, who told me I wouldn't be catching my connecting flight.
Reviewer UK01 2 years ago
Oh God, same. I had a very minor sniffle and got on the plane and it was barely off the ground when my ear, tooth and the nerve in the side of my face just went wild. Was in pain for 3 weeks from it and now always fly with decongestant drops and employ them at the first sign of trouble.
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probably an apple 2 years ago
this was really traumatizing for me and my mother. we went to georgia to see my grandparents and it was a fun trip! i felt really anxious after we headed for the airport, because i feared i left something at my grandparents house. i usually always get anxious when flying, but this made it so much worse. i was breathing heavily, i was numb af, and i apparently blacked out. as soon as we got to the airport, i puked. i don’t even remember feeling nauseous or even starting to throw up, which proves i blacked out. i got cleaned up, and i was feeling a little better. i wanted to constantly hover over a trash can bc that made me feel better. when we were heading towards security, i threw up again, and it didn’t even shock me. i felt perfectly fine. however, once i got on the plane, the anxiety spiked due to my difficulty being on planes. i puked again. i don’t remember actually puking in the moment, i just remember my airpod flying out. i fell asleep shortly after that. that was…
probably an apple 2 years ago
…single-handedly the most traumatizing day of my life.
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11 years old, on a 4 hour flight at night. I was with my mom and sisters, but a different row because there were 4 of us and 3 seats per row. I had the aisle. I also had a miserable cold (took some ibuprofen before the flight but still awful). The man next to me was middle-aged and large, but not so large that he wouldn’t fit in the seat. The whole flight I fee him pressed against me. I kept scooting to the aisle, eventually had my feet in the aisle, half my butt of the seat, trying so hard to not touch him (to make stuff worse, I’m autistic and I don’t like much touch from most people). Couldn’t sleep, felt awful, and no matter how far I scooted away he kept pressing into my side. When we landed and the lights came up I discovered he had put up the armrest to give himself better access to me. I should have called the flight attendant but I didn’t know what was going on and I didn’t want to fatshame him. Also, the flight was delayed and we had to run for our connection. 1/2
FaceTime Audio 2 years ago
My mom couldn’t see what was going on and I didn’t tell her. I hope he caught my cold. Different time it could have been bad but wasn’t. Night flight home, one connection, from a vacation in the Caribbean (total time about 7hrs). I had been in the hospital with food poisoning the night before, and while I hadn’t puked since then, I had had diarrhea and been almost completely unable to eat for two days. I was really weak, the first airport was hot, my pants were falling down I was so skinny, and getting across the airport was a challenge. My condition was fine on the first flight, was able to eat some pretzels on the second (got hungry), but our flight was again delayed and we had an hour to get through customs and security in the middle of the night in Charlotte. Carrying my heavy carryon wasn’t easy. Also, I was on my period. Really wasn’t bad though, managed to sleep some and didn’t get sick on the plane (bacterial food poisoning, didn’t infect anyone afaik).
Load More Replies... Susan Stead 2 years ago
My family and I were returning from a trip to Japan, and the gentleman next to me had not only never been on a plane, but he was pretty terrified. He didn't speak English, and I speak nothing but, so it was a challenge to put his mind at ease when the inevitable turbulence happened prior to landing, but I was somehow able to convince him that it was normal and we were not in danger. I wish there was a sign or something in multiple languages that stated this. Maybe there is, but I've never seen it.
John Dilligaf 2 years ago (edited)
It was about my 3rd solo flight, just after getting my pilot's license. I'm tooling along in a rented Cessna 172 when a guy comes falling past me, then another one. Long story short- some guy was above me dropping parachutists (in the wrong place I found out later). He hadn't seen me and I wasn't even looking for him.
The Original Bruno 2 years ago
"Well folks, there is extreme wind sheer in Albany, and there's no way in Hell we're going to land this puppy under those conditions. So get comfy, we'll be up here several hours. Don't worry, if we start getting low on fuel, we can get clearance to land in Boston." A few moments later: "We'll be landing in Albany in a few minutes. Please resturn to your seats and put your trays in an upright position..." A few more moments later: "Don't worry, folks; I used to do this in Nam all the time." No joke. Uh, a 727 isn't very similar to anything flown in Nam during the war.
S M 2 years ago
Bout of positional vertigo came on just before boarding a transatlantic flight. I hoped it would pass and didn’t do an Epley. You know that feeling when everything is spinning and you are so dizzy you can’t focus on anything? Now try that taking off and climbing in a thunderstorm. The nausea was devastating. In the end the flight attendant just gave me one of those industrial waste bags after I kept falling over in the rush to make it to the toilet.
Silre 2 years ago
Ugh I had that happen one morning before I work. I'm not sure how I managed to get dressed and go downstairs before I decided that I couldn't get to work.
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Solidhog 2 years ago
Coming into land at London Gatwick and the whole cabin is filled with the stink of poo. Turns out a guy in the middle completely soiled himself as absolutely petrified of flying. Walked from the plane to the toilets in the terminal like it and got changed. Why do people that petrified fly?
Agfox 2 years ago
My wife & I had just boarded a flight from Melbourne to Singapore, my wife in the window seat, me in the middle & a young woman with a baby in arms in the aisle seat. Guy in the row in front had been up & down several times fiddling with his hard shell case & it slid out of his hands. I was reading the entertainment guide when the case fell past me & hit the baby. Cabin staff member was called & the woman & baby were offloaded so the baby cold be taken to the airport medical clinic. Cabin staff took a statement from the guy in front then asked us if we'd seen anything, I mentioned that the guy had been up & down to the case several times but we didn't see anything until it was too late to help. We felt upset for most of the flight, stayed overnight in Singapore, resumed our trip the next day & one of the same cabin staff was on board. She recognised us & advised that the baby had not been injured & the couple resumed their travel to Singapore on a later flight the same day
Pittsburgh rare 2 years ago
I'm terrified of flying so l don't know why l thought this was a good idea. Gonna look for a pups post or something.
Kathy Wilbourne 2 years ago
I was on NY to London flight when I suddenly developed an ear infection. It was so painful I screamed into a pillow for the rest of the flight. That was long ago, before I (or the flight attendants) knew what to do about it. I was alone and had the entire upper level of a 747 to myself, so it wasn't quite as bad as it might have been. Saw the doctor at the airport, who told me I wouldn't be catching my connecting flight.
Reviewer UK01 2 years ago
Oh God, same. I had a very minor sniffle and got on the plane and it was barely off the ground when my ear, tooth and the nerve in the side of my face just went wild. Was in pain for 3 weeks from it and now always fly with decongestant drops and employ them at the first sign of trouble.
Load More Replies... probably an apple 2 years ago
this was really traumatizing for me and my mother. we went to georgia to see my grandparents and it was a fun trip! i felt really anxious after we headed for the airport, because i feared i left something at my grandparents house. i usually always get anxious when flying, but this made it so much worse. i was breathing heavily, i was numb af, and i apparently blacked out. as soon as we got to the airport, i puked. i don’t even remember feeling nauseous or even starting to throw up, which proves i blacked out. i got cleaned up, and i was feeling a little better. i wanted to constantly hover over a trash can bc that made me feel better. when we were heading towards security, i threw up again, and it didn’t even shock me. i felt perfectly fine. however, once i got on the plane, the anxiety spiked due to my difficulty being on planes. i puked again. i don’t remember actually puking in the moment, i just remember my airpod flying out. i fell asleep shortly after that. that was…
probably an apple 2 years ago
…single-handedly the most traumatizing day of my life.
Load More Replies... FaceTime Audio 2 years ago
11 years old, on a 4 hour flight at night. I was with my mom and sisters, but a different row because there were 4 of us and 3 seats per row. I had the aisle. I also had a miserable cold (took some ibuprofen before the flight but still awful). The man next to me was middle-aged and large, but not so large that he wouldn’t fit in the seat. The whole flight I fee him pressed against me. I kept scooting to the aisle, eventually had my feet in the aisle, half my butt of the seat, trying so hard to not touch him (to make stuff worse, I’m autistic and I don’t like much touch from most people). Couldn’t sleep, felt awful, and no matter how far I scooted away he kept pressing into my side. When we landed and the lights came up I discovered he had put up the armrest to give himself better access to me. I should have called the flight attendant but I didn’t know what was going on and I didn’t want to fatshame him. Also, the flight was delayed and we had to run for our connection. 1/2
FaceTime Audio 2 years ago
My mom couldn’t see what was going on and I didn’t tell her. I hope he caught my cold. Different time it could have been bad but wasn’t. Night flight home, one connection, from a vacation in the Caribbean (total time about 7hrs). I had been in the hospital with food poisoning the night before, and while I hadn’t puked since then, I had had diarrhea and been almost completely unable to eat for two days. I was really weak, the first airport was hot, my pants were falling down I was so skinny, and getting across the airport was a challenge. My condition was fine on the first flight, was able to eat some pretzels on the second (got hungry), but our flight was again delayed and we had an hour to get through customs and security in the middle of the night in Charlotte. Carrying my heavy carryon wasn’t easy. Also, I was on my period. Really wasn’t bad though, managed to sleep some and didn’t get sick on the plane (bacterial food poisoning, didn’t infect anyone afaik).
Load More Replies... Susan Stead 2 years ago
My family and I were returning from a trip to Japan, and the gentleman next to me had not only never been on a plane, but he was pretty terrified. He didn't speak English, and I speak nothing but, so it was a challenge to put his mind at ease when the inevitable turbulence happened prior to landing, but I was somehow able to convince him that it was normal and we were not in danger. I wish there was a sign or something in multiple languages that stated this. Maybe there is, but I've never seen it.
John Dilligaf 2 years ago (edited)
It was about my 3rd solo flight, just after getting my pilot's license. I'm tooling along in a rented Cessna 172 when a guy comes falling past me, then another one. Long story short- some guy was above me dropping parachutists (in the wrong place I found out later). He hadn't seen me and I wasn't even looking for him.
The Original Bruno 2 years ago
"Well folks, there is extreme wind sheer in Albany, and there's no way in Hell we're going to land this puppy under those conditions. So get comfy, we'll be up here several hours. Don't worry, if we start getting low on fuel, we can get clearance to land in Boston." A few moments later: "We'll be landing in Albany in a few minutes. Please resturn to your seats and put your trays in an upright position..." A few more moments later: "Don't worry, folks; I used to do this in Nam all the time." No joke. Uh, a 727 isn't very similar to anything flown in Nam during the war.
S M 2 years ago
Bout of positional vertigo came on just before boarding a transatlantic flight. I hoped it would pass and didn’t do an Epley. You know that feeling when everything is spinning and you are so dizzy you can’t focus on anything? Now try that taking off and climbing in a thunderstorm. The nausea was devastating. In the end the flight attendant just gave me one of those industrial waste bags after I kept falling over in the rush to make it to the toilet.
Silre 2 years ago
Ugh I had that happen one morning before I work. I'm not sure how I managed to get dressed and go downstairs before I decided that I couldn't get to work.
Load More Replies... Solidhog 2 years ago
Coming into land at London Gatwick and the whole cabin is filled with the stink of poo. Turns out a guy in the middle completely soiled himself as absolutely petrified of flying. Walked from the plane to the toilets in the terminal like it and got changed. Why do people that petrified fly?
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