Your Worst Flight

[fat rat]

Flight #1 - I was in Anthens Greece when we notified my FIL passes, don’t ask me how the Red Cross found us. Anyways we get to Albuquerque and waiting on our flight to Farmington. So I have some time to kill and decided to have a couple American beers, my first time back n the states for over 3years. I boarded my flight that was going to be just short of 1 hour. We are airborne, I get up to use the bathroom and the flight attendant says we don’t have a bathroom, I had to piss like a race horse. She told me I was to hold till we land. I was a board a Conair 580 , stiff wing aircraft, there I sit doing everything I can to hold it. I was in total misery, we finally landed and they let me exit first. I barely made it.

Flight #2- Air Mexico, flying back from Cabo to DC. We are all boarding and I noticed this passenger carry helium balloons. I said this is going to be interesting, flight attendant directed her to put thee balloons n the overhead compartment. We taxi out, get airborne and on our way up. All of a sudden the hvac starts blowing visibl condensation, passengers started screaming And about the time those balloons started popping.No flight attendants responded, I’m a FAA certified flight mechanic, I stood up ,calmed the passengers and explained to them what was happening they were relieved and thanked me. During all this excitement and no flight attendant.

 

[pkrrvr619]

spirit airlines flight from west virginia to myrtle beach many years back.

the people watching was phenomenal though...

 

[dread Pirate]

Would have been early 80's. Ozark Airlines from OKC to Springfield Mo. Twin prop deal lost a blade off a propeller. Vibrations were so bad the cabinets were shaking open.

 

[Xtrmwakeboarder]

More so for my wife than me....

A few years ago, we were flying home from Cancun, and the airport had no running water. Every shitter was full of crap. I bit the bullet and took a dump on top of someone else's dump while trying not to puke, but my wife would not. We boarded the plane, and the flight attendant wouldn't let anyone out of their seats to hit the bathroom. There was a huge line as many of the people wouldn't go in the airport bathrooms. We took off, started climbing, and about halfway through the climb my wife said enough was enough, and ran to the bathroom before anyone else could cut in front. Could have been a very shitty situation if she waited any longer... The rest of the flight, it was a revolving door of people in and out of that thing. I'm guessing they maxed that sucker out.

 

[C_J_J_C]

Dublin Ireland to Los Angeles non-stop.
Middle seat, full flight.... sucks.
Now add Mother with under 6 month old at the window and father of the kid in the isle seat and the would not switch to sit side by side because they were fighting.

 

[Brian]

I was somewhere in the midwest coming back home to CA around 7-8 years ago. Had the window seat and some 400lb fat fuck had the middle seat. He was literally pouring over into my seat. After about 20 min into the flight, I made him let me out and went to a flight attendant and asked to sit elsewhere. Unfortunately they didn't have any open seats. I even asked if I could sit in the jumper seat in the galley area but none open there. They felt bad for me. They also told me that if I would of complained before we pushed from the gate that they could of removed the guy from the plane and made him take another flight and purchase 2 seats next to each other for his fat ass to take up both seats.

 

[fat rat]

I was somewhere in the midwest coming back home to CA around 7-8 years ago. Had the window seat and some 400lb fat fuck had the middle seat. He was literally pouring over into my seat. After about 20 min into the flight, I made him let me out and went to a flight attendant and asked to sit elsewhere. Unfortunately they didn't have any open seats. I even asked if I could sit in the jumper seat in the galley area but none open there. They felt bad for me. They also told me that if I would of complained before we pushed from the gate that they could of removed the guy from the plane and made him take another flight and purchase 2 seats next to each other for his fat ass to take up both seats.

I’ve been there, guy had to put both arm rests up just to fit in. Funny thing was he was going hunting on horse back. He had to be every bit of 400#, poor horse!

 

[dave29]

Phoenix to Burbank. I thought something was wrong when I saw Lake Mead below. The flight attendant announced that a fire alarm had gone off in the baggage compartment. We landed in Vegas. As we taxied there were fire trucks and men in fire suits following us. We finally stopped however, they wouldn't let us deplane. WTF........ the fire alarm was on. Get me off this plane. We sat there for about 10 minutes then taxied to a remote terminal. Only then would they let us off the plane.
I saw no logic in keeping passengers on a plane with the fire alarm on.

 

[Sandlord]

My worst flight was not the one where the young breastfeeding mom fell asleep next to me with her boobs out and I caught the baby before it fell on the floor.
I let her sleep like that for the next hour because she was tired.

 

[DaytonaBabe]

My worst flight was the Southwest flight home from Vegas after my bachelorette weekend 18 years ago. We went straight from the club to the airport to catch a 6am flight. Still drunk, I'm surprised I found the correct gate. I was the last one on the plane and had to sit in the backwards facing seat. As we had been drinking all day and all night, I had WAY more than the carry-on limit of 3 ounces in my stomach, and the backward situation didn't really work out so well for me. Luckily, I made it to the restroom in time to hurl. I'm pretty tall, so the logistics of trying to puke while standing up in a tiny bathroom made for a situation that I then had to wipe up to make sure I didn't leave a mess. Yuck. The fun didn't stop there though. Since it was spring, the San Diego airport was fogged in and after circling for what felt like an eternity, the pilot notified us that we couldn't land and had to divert to Ontario until the fog lifted. We land in Ontario and they park the plane and turn it OFF while we wait for over an hour. It was hot as Satan's rectum in there and I was sweating out Long Island Ice Tea. I'm sure everyone around me really enjoyed the smell of booze coming out of my pores Eventually made it home and I slept the rest of the day.

Learned a big lesson about trying to save money on an early morning flight from Vegas that day. Never again.

Hoping that someone here was on that flight and their worst flight story was about the young, tall blonde chick that was drunk on the flight home from Vegas.

 

[Racey]

Dublin Ireland to Los Angeles non-stop.
Middle seat, full flight.... sucks.
Now add Mother with under 6 month old at the window and father of the kid in the isle seat and the would not switch to sit side by side because they were fighting.

My worst was Auckland NZ to SFO, didn't get the upgrade to Premium economy and had just come down with a head cold. I'm 6'2" with long legs, it fucking sucked, it's about 11-12 hours.

After that i always just paid up front for Premium Econ, which is nice as fuck on Air NZ. Ticket costs a little more than double what an economy seat does, but worth every penny.

The other flights that suck are east coast back to west against the trades. Orlando to Vegas i've had to do a couple times, first off you are basically riding a city bus in the bad part of town. Bunch of thugs all getting ready to party it up in Vegas, and it doesn't matter what airline. First class on domestic flights is useless and way over priced. For that reason i actually prefer just flying Spirit or Frontier where you can at least pay an extra 100 or so for a 2+2 seat in the first couple rows. I will NEVER fly southwest further than about denver and be stuck in 3+3 seats with no assigned seating.

 

[Done-it-again]

I had a engine shut off on a reginal turbo prop coming out of Virginia 30 min into the flight. Pilot turned around back to the airport where they shut down runway and made an emergency landing.



Back in 08' i was leaving Amsterdam and we were delayed sitting at the gate for over an hour for clearance to fly over the UK that was on strike. It had been raining the whole time and once we took off and left the ground, the plane we struck by lightning with a loud bang and it shut off all power in the cabin. Pilot came on and said he still had all navigation and controls so he was going to keep going. Cabin power came back on 30-40 min later. Never seen so many business men in business class starting to freak out. I figured we weren't that high up when it happed so the fall wouldn't be that bad....lol

 

[BabyRay]

I’ve had a few interesting flight experiences, from bad storms to near-collisions.

Probably the most memorable, though not really my worst, was when a non-English speaking woman, probably 65 or so, got up to use the restroom as we were about to touch down. The stewardesses were screaming at her to get down, but she didn’t understand them and was totally unaware of what was about to happen. Being as the stewardess were screaming at her, she happened to be stop next to me, in a state of confusion, as we hit the ground. I threw my arms around her, pulled her close, and held on just in time. Had I not been able to grab her, I’m certain she’d have gone down hard. I’m sure I scared the hell out of her by grabbing her, but it was better than watching her get hurt.

 

[Ziggy]

Flight was from New York JFK to Munich. The line of planes in taxi was ungodly long. It took 1.5hrs before we lifted off. Every passenger onboard was literally suffocating of jet exhaust fumes from the dozens+ of planes ahead of us during that hour & half.
Nauseating.

 

[framer1]

Flight #1 - I was in Anthens Greece when we notified my FIL passes, don’t ask me how the Red Cross found us. Anyways we get to Albuquerque and waiting on our flight to Farmington. So I have some time to kill and decided to have a couple American beers, my first time back n the states for over 3years. I boarded my flight that was going to be just short of 1 hour. We are airborne, I get up to use the bathroom and the flight attendant says we don’t have a bathroom, I had to piss like a race horse. She told me I was to hold till we land. I was a board a Conair 580 , stiff wing aircraft, there I sit doing everything I can to hold it. I was in total misery, we finally landed and they let me exit first. I barely made it.

Flight #2- Air Mexico, flying back from Cabo to DC. We are all boarding and I noticed this passenger carry helium balloons. I said this is going to be interesting, flight attendant directed her to put thee balloons n the overhead compartment. We taxi out, get airborne and on our way up. All of a sudden the hvac starts blowing visibl condensation, passengers started screaming And about the time those balloons started popping.No flight attendants responded, I’m a FAA certified flight mechanic, I stood up ,calmed the passengers and explained to them what was happening they were relieved and thanked me. During all this excitement and no flight attendant.

There is absolutely nothing worse than having to take a piss or $hit and having no where to go. If that was a torture, I would tell you anything. lol

 

[mbrown2]

Phx Sky Harbor to Havasu early 2000's July Aug timeframe when they used to have commercial service it was a smaller American plane, 2 prop deal.... I have never really had a bad flight but I guess this was bad given how everyone else was doing... Again, this was monsoon season and there were a number of storms lined up between Phx and Havasu... this pilot said we would be dancing a bit so buckle up... What is normally a 35-40 min flight was like 1.5 cause he was trying to go around thunderheads... Talk about dropping 1k at a time each time we would hit turbulence.. we were going around thunderheads but hitting bad air 10-20 miles away from them...I just put my earphones in and tried to relax but there were folks crying and screaming for a good 30-40 min straight ...that was great weekend once I got back on the ground and settled my nerves through libations...

 

[mbrown2]

Flight 2:
Leaving Austin Formula 1 race...race from race to airport only to be delayed 2hrs as the private jets were getting priority...plus just a ton of planes... miss connecting flight in Dallas, catch later flight that can only go to LAX as I am getting home so late...so get uber from LAX to SNA to get my car don't get home till 2am... Lesson, always stay another day after the race...

 

[samsah33]

Flying out of Des Moines Iowa in the middle of winter. Just after takeoff, the cabin began to fill with smoke and people start screaming. Turns out some de-icer got into the ventilation system, so all was good. Was kinda surreal thinking "this is it...!"

 

[rivermobster]

LAX to Panama.

And we got the cheap seats on the red eye to save money. I don't think I'll do That again.

At least not for a 7 hour red eye flight.

That was a LONG time to sit in one spot.

 

[poncho]

Phoenix to Burbank. I thought something was wrong when I saw Lake Mead below. The flight attendant announced that a fire alarm had gone off in the baggage compartment. We landed in Vegas. As we taxied there were fire trucks and men in fire suits following us. We finally stopped however, they wouldn't let us deplane. WTF........ the fire alarm was on. Get me off this plane. We sat there for about 10 minutes then taxied to a remote terminal. Only then would they let us off the plane.
I saw no logic in keeping passengers on a plane with the fire alarm on.

Flying into Chicago/Midway and when we landed the plane went as far as it could from the terminal and shut off, we were on what looked like a maintenance road next to a fence.
Captain comes on 20 minutes later and say's there is an issue but wouldn't say what.
Tons of emergency vehicles in the distance, I speak up, folks there's probably a bomb on here and they don't want anyone but us getting hurt, open the door I will jump.
That really pissed off the stewardesses, your going to create unnecessary panic, I don't fucking care.
Two hours later here come a bunch of busses, folks we are getting a portable staircase and will ride the buses to the terminal.
At the terminal you went with a couple FBI agents and answered a bunch of questions, one of which was did you write a bomb threat and put it on the floor of the airplane, Fuck No, Guy's I haven't slept in my bed in 7 months, I'm the last person that wants to delay getting home.
This was months after 911 (looked it up) 2006, and everyone was on high alert, found out later it was a teenage girl that didn't want to go to a relatives or something.
Called my little Sister and she say's please tell me you were not on that plane.

 

[fat rat]

Flying into Chicago/Midway and when we landed the plane went as far as it could from the terminal and shut off, we were on what looked like a maintenance road next to a fence.
Captain comes on 20 minutes later and say's there is an issue but wouldn't say what.
Tons of emergency vehicles in the distance, I speak up, folks there's probably a bomb on here and they don't want anyone but us getting hurt, open the door I will jump.
That really pissed off the stewardesses, your going to create unnecessary panic, I don't fucking care.
Two hours later here come a bunch of busses, folks we are getting a portable staircase and will ride the buses to the terminal.
At the terminal you went with a couple FBI agents and answered a bunch of questions, one of which was did you write a bomb threat and put it on the floor of the airplane, Fuck No, Guy's I haven't slept in my bed in 7 months, I'm the last person that wants to delay getting home.
This was months after 911 (looked it up) 2006, and everyone was on high alert, found out later it was a teenage girl that didn't want to go to a relatives or something.
Called my little Sister and she say's please tell me you were not on that plane.

I had some scary flights in and out of Chicago back in 70’s!

 

[poncho]

Easily the worst flight for me was a late arrival for my connection put me in the very last seat. We sat there forever and they said we are waiting for one more passenger, guy comes aboard with 3 checked bag size suitcases, Wtf.
Whole time this kid is screaming a few rows ahead, finally got in the air hour late and all of a sudden it smells like a concert port a potti, that kid shit her pants from Nashville to Rhode Island screaming the whole time.
When we landed I told the guy with the suitcases he stay's until everyone else is off the plane, when I was younger I had anger issues.

 

[poncho]

I had some scary flights in and out of Chicago back in 70’s!

I was 14 the first time I crossed over the highway at O'Hare, that tripped me out.

 

[Nordie]

I leave Friday ya'll making me nervous, I haven't really had too terrible of experiences of flying to really mention.

Just the typical stuck on the tarmac, or a leaking hydraulic line before we took off. Or the "handicapped" people with a c boarding group on southwest and hop out of their wheel chairs as soon as they open the gate.

 

[poncho]

I leave Friday ya'll making me nervous, I haven't really had too terrible of experiences of flying to really mention.

Just the typical stuck on the tarmac, or a leaking hydraulic line before we took off. Or the "handicapped" people with a c boarding group on southwest and hop out of their wheel chairs as soon as they open the gate.

They need to do something about that fake wheelchair bullshit.

 

[yz450mm]

My worst flight was not the one where the young breastfeeding mom fell asleep next to me with her boobs out and I caught the baby before it fell on the floor.
I let her sleep like that for the next hour because she was tired.

Were you thirsty?

 

[cofooter]

I've had a bunch of nightmare flights travelling back and forth and within Asia for 30 yrs for business. The worst experience ever though came from one of my bosses coming back from China.

Boss: This lady next to me is dead!
Stewardess: She's. not dead, she's probably sleeping.
Boss: No she's definitely dead!
Stewardess: Well don't say anything to anyone well take care of it when we land in 6 HOURS!!!
Creepy

 

[n2otoofast4u]

When I crashed my Cessna.

 

[fat rat]

When I crashed my Cessna.

Are you serious?

 

[Community]

Leaving Oahu, flaps would not come in. Returned after a fuel dump. They fixed it, tried again, second time people panicked and then we had medical issues , no time to dump fuel. Fire and ambulance waiting on the tarmac. Nobody died and they gave us a much newer plane a few hours later. Longest flight time from Oahu to LAX ever. Got a free flight back though.

 

[Riverfamlee]

Maybe I am being petty , but looking at this crusty, stank ass foot for 2 hours.

 

[Racey]

Maybe I am being petty , but looking at this crusty, stank ass foot for 2 hours. View attachment 1302998

I watched a guy give his old lady a full blown sensual foot massage ACROSS THE AISLE in the row in front of me on a flight from Portland to Vegas. They were all jacked up on something, moving around blowing the seat backs from their rocking back and fourth. The guy and his chick were sitting each in the aisle seats across from each other. It was one of the most ridiculous things i have ever witnessed, i couldn't believe what i was seeing

He'd have to put her foot back when the service cart passed. It was an Alaskan fight iirc

 

[whiteworks]

Flying commercial, get priority boarding, seated and they bring out my champagne and hot towel, but the towel was just warm instead of hot, not sure how I survived that one.

 

[poncho]

Dutch Harbor, generally not afraid of flying but have had some seriously pucker landings. I've heard of guys that will work for free on a boat to Seattle rather than fly back out.
Had a guy sitting next to me that I could not believe how frightened he was, sheer terror on his face and an animal sounding moan.

 

[H20 Toie]

Jamaica to lax halfway over they realized they didnt have correct maintenance paperwork so went back to jamaica, then had to catch flight next day,
lax to /boston just after we took off we did came back around and landed, fire trucks pulled up and put out fire on one engine
Minneapolis to lax when i was a kid had to turn around becuase of landing gear failure, but landing nothing went wrong
Then couple years ago because of all the bs canceled flights delays etc it to 36 hours to get from loto to lax my bags showed up the next day

 

[3queens]

Honeymoon flight to Saint Lucia
3 seat row
Me my wife and 2 tons of fun sitting half on me for 11 yrs

From then any time it’s a 8+ hr flight I spend extra for FC or business class

 

[rivermobster]

I watched a guy give his old lady a full blown sensual foot massage ACROSS THE AISLE in the row in front of me on a flight from Portland to Vegas. They were all jacked up on something, moving around blowing the seat backs from their rocking back and fourth. The guy and his chick were sitting each in the aisle seats across from each other. It was one of the most ridiculous things i have ever witnessed, i couldn't believe what i was seeing

He'd have to put her foot back when the service cart passed. It was an Alaskan fight iirc

I know a chick that told me she could orgasm from the foot massage her foot doctor would give her.

She said the first time, he asked her if she would be ok with it, and of course she didn't believe him, so she told him to go for it.

Once it happened, she was the one asking for it!!!

Man I wouldn't mind learning That skill.

 

[Racey]

I know a chick that told me she could orgasm from the foot massage her foot doctor would give her.

She said the first time, he asked her if she would be ok with it, and of course she didn't believe him, so she told him to go for it.

Once it happened, she was the one asking for it!!!

Man I wouldn't mind learning That skill.

Lol, dude what kind of pervert doctor was this chick going to

 

[jetboatperformance]

The only thing made it OK was the morphine

 

[n2otoofast4u]

Are you serious?

Unfortunately, yes. Young (18), low time pilot, had a what ultimately was a very small instrument issue and wasn’t experienced enough to handle it as well as I should have. Landed, relaxed, gust of wind hit and picked it back up before I could get ahold of it and it nosed over. Was not my greatest moment in life, but I survived. If the same event happened today it would be a non issue.

 

[The Prisoner]

https://www.cnn.com/travel/horse-escapes-on-boeing-747/index.html

 

[gqchris]

More so for my wife than me....

A few years ago, we were flying home from Cancun, and the airport had no running water. Every shitter was full of crap. I bit the bullet and took a dump on top of someone else's dump while trying not to puke, but my wife would not. We boarded the plane, and the flight attendant wouldn't let anyone out of their seats to hit the bathroom. There was a huge line as many of the people wouldn't go in the airport bathrooms. We took off, started climbing, and about halfway through the climb my wife said enough was enough, and ran to the bathroom before anyone else could cut in front. Could have been a very shitty situation if she waited any longer... The rest of the flight, it was a revolving door of people in and out of that thing. I'm guessing they maxed that sucker out.

I have never shit on a plane. Was it the mexico food that wrecked your guys guts? dropping a loaf on another is an experience I wish to never have! Lol

 

[gqchris]

There is so muc

I know a chick that told me she could orgasm from the foot massage her foot doctor would give her.

She said the first time, he asked her if she would be ok with it, and of course she didn't believe him, so she told him to go for it.

Once it happened, she was the one asking for it!!!

Man I wouldn't mind learning That skill.

So much weirdness I dont know where to begin.

How does a legit dr ask to give a patient an orgasm?

 

[RichardMango]

Flight #1 - I was in Anthens Greece when we notified my FIL passes, don’t ask me how the Red Cross found us. Anyways we get to Albuquerque and waiting on our flight to Farmington. So I have some time to kill and decided to have a couple American beers, my first time back n the states for over 3years. I boarded my flight that was going to be just short of 1 hour. We are airborne, I get up to use the bathroom and the flight attendant says we don’t have a bathroom, I had to piss like a race horse. She told me I was to hold till we land. I was a board a Conair 580 , stiff wing aircraft, there I sit doing everything I can to hold it. I was in total misery, we finally landed and they let me exit first. I barely made it.

Flight #2- Air Mexico, flying back from Cabo to DC. We are all boarding and I noticed this passenger carry helium balloons. I said this is going to be interesting, flight attendant directed her to put thee balloons n the overhead compartment. We taxi out, get airborne and on our way up. All of a sudden the hvac starts blowing visibl condensation, passengers started screaming And about the time those balloons started popping.No flight attendants responded, I’m a FAA certified flight mechanic, I stood up ,calmed the passengers and explained to them what was happening they were relieved and thanked me. During all this excitement and no flight attendant.

Who was your father in law? Were you flying Mesa airlines?

 

[Xtrmwakeboarder]

I have never shit on a plane. Was it the mexico food that wrecked your guys guts? dropping a loaf on another is an experience I wish to never have! Lol

Haha to be clear, I dumped on top of other people’s dumps in the toilet. No flushing. Lol

And it wasn’t that everyone was messed up from the food, just no where to go until you got on the plane unless you wanted to brave the bathrooms in the airport. Think filled to the brim port a potties in the airport. It was disgusting.

 

[rivrrts429]

Lol, dude what kind of pervert doctor was this chick going to

He became the USC gynecologist

 

[fat rat]

Who was your father in law? Were you flying Mesa airlines?

My FIL was Navajo, WW2 vet, wounded on Dday and over all good guy. I don’t recall the airline, it was almost 40 years ago.

 

[LuauLounge]

We were in the exit row on a SW flight. Taxi out and starts runup and get about 100 yards down and shuts down, saying that they had a warning light. Sitting right next to the engine, it wasn't a warning light, the engine didn't make a noise the entire way. Goes back to the gate, maintenance crew looks at something and away we go again. Same deal, fortunately, they decided this was a good time to change planes.

 

[Sleek-Jet]

My FIL was Navajo, WW2 vet, wounded on Dday and over all good guy. I don’t recall the airline, it was almost 40 years ago.

If you flew on a CV-580 it would have likely been the original Frontier.

 

[Boozer]

October 2000. I was flying from Denver to LA for my brothers 18th birthday.

Mid way through the flight the oxygen masks dropped and the flight attendants initially said not to worry about it, it must have been a mistake. I got light headed and put on the mask, shortly after the captain came on the intercom and told us it wasnt a mistake and to put on the masks. The cabin depressurized at 30K feet, it’s a very eery feeling and something I will never forget.

Shortly after the cabin depressurized the cabin started to fill with smoke. The captain came back on the intercom and said we were making an unscheduled landing in Las Vegas due to a mechanical issue with the plane.

I was sitting in a seat over the wing. They started dumping all of the fuel out of the wing. The plane made a hard roll to the side and it felt like the plane was almost completely sideways, at the same time the plane dived and was coming down insanely fast. Looking out the window all I could see were mountains, we were nowhere near Las Vegas.

Everyone on the plane started panicking, women were screaming and crying. We were all convinced they were going to fly us into the side of a mountain and weren’t telling us.

We ended up landing at a regional airport in Bryce Canyon Utah. It was built during WW2 and the last time something like that happened there it was the deadliest plane crash in history at the time.

The airline offered to bus us to LV and put us on a plane to LA once we got there. I ended up finding someone to rent a car with and we drove to LA, I wasn’t getting back on another plane that day.

I’ve got a whole other crazy story about the rental car situation but that’s another story for another day.

The situation made national news but what was reported and what actually happened were very different situations.