What is your worst or funniest experience on a plane?

Question

I saw a guy pull his bag from the overhead bin and let it fall on the guy in the seat below the bin. Personally, I think that kind of stupidity is a good reason to bring back public hangings.

Answer 1

My worst: when seated next to a Nun who was complaining about her job. While I'm not overly religious, I just kept thinking that if God decided to teach her a lesson at that moment, I did NOT want to be seated next to her or anywhere on the plane.

Funniest: on an overseas flight, the elderly man sitting next to me had a bit much to drink and decided that his clothes were too binding (he was wearing a jogging suit) to sleep in so he removed them. Luckily he did use a blanket, but the flight attendants were trying to get him dressed without waking up the other passengers. Quite a trip!

Answer 2

On a fligh from London to Lisbon I had to wait until landing to go to the plane's toilet. I asked the hostesses if it was alright. Once I was out the plane was empty!? I went up the aisle and at the door the two hostesses were staring at me surprised. Apparently they changed staff at that point!
After explaining the situation they pointed towards the exit. Problem is at the end of the sleeve the door was closed! No one hadany idea how to open it so I had to go back to the plane, wait for security to be called.
The guard couldn't open it either and by then people were boarding the carrier back to London. So I went through everybody, breaking every rule on the book, got to the boarding room and the 3 policemen and about 60 passengers by the metal detector stared at me as I made the machine bleeping crazy.
Finaly I got out,going all the opposite way towards the departures lounge where enjoyed some extra shopping.

Answer 3

I had been working for a new company for about 3 weeks when I had to fly out on our company plane (seats about 10 people). On the flight I had to pee really bad. I tried to hold it as long as I could but I have this small medical thing where if I try to not pee it makes me nauseated. So now I'm having to pee and feel like I'm going to throw up. I'm on this tiny little plane which I'm sure has no bathroom. I ask the pilot how far we are from landing and he says 45 minutes. So I start to freak. There is no way I can hold this for 45 minutes. I'm either going to puke on myself (and probably wet my pants in the process) or I'm going to just wet my pants. Keep in mind that I had only been working with these people 3 weeks and I'm still trying to make a good impression. I guess I was turning colors because someone asked me if I was going to be sick. I just nodded. They said, we have a bathroom on here. My ears perked up. I couldn't imagine where this bathroom could be. Turns out, the last seat on the plane has a toilet under the seat cushion. So I switched seats with the guy in that spot. To use the bathroom you just take the cushion off. The only privacy I had was a curtain that I pull around the seat like a shower curtain. So here I am twenty thousand feet in the air with 10 people I don't know very well and trying to impress and I'm peeing in an incredibly small plane, the only thing separating me from my co-worker in the seat next to me is a cheap curtain. Needless to say - I haven't been on that plane since.


Added: I've also never been not delayed in Atlanta. Once we started to taxi and then turned around because the plane hadn't been gassed up. Glad they caught it before we took off!!!

Answer 4

When I was 5 my Mom decided that we was going by plane to see the grandparents and just as we was boarding my Dad who was not going whispered in my ear that Kadolfe (not sure of the spelling but this was a guy like bin laden)was going to blow up the plane so as we began to take flight and I could take my seat belt off I began silenlty just as my father had told me that the plane was going to get blowed up which would not be funny these days but then it was very funny to think of this tiny girl freaking out ppl including my Mom who I think never forgive my father for it they are divorced now. I am 26.

Answer 5

It was before we even took off. I was on the first DC-10 to land at the Raleigh, NC airport. The plane had a mechanical problem, and it was being worked on. No big deal. One of the flight attendants told the people 3 rows up the compass was being replaced and we would not crash because of it. How nice.

Answer 6

Worst: There was a flight on a puddle-jumper from MN. Of course it was Northworst (Northwest Airlines). As we're speeding up for take-off, suddenly the pilot hit the brakes and we veered off the runway! We were taken back to the terminal where it was explained that there was a HUGE jet coming up right behind us trying to take off at the same time!

Funniest: I shared a row with a business woman, and she worked on her laptop most of the time. We talked a bit about what we did for a living. Turns out she was into BDSM and actually taught classes and parties about it. No biggie I thought, she was nice. So when my friend who was into that) met me at the airport, as we were picking up my luggage I saw my seatmate. She cheerily said "Have a great time in ______!" I said "You too! Nice meeting you!"

My friend's jaw dropped. She asked if I knew who that was. I explained, and my friend had heard of her! It was hilarious.

Answer 7

I was on a flight and we had just taken off and were on a pretty steep incline, well all of the sudden it sounds like the plane hits a freaking truck and the whole plane shudders. I thought we were toast. Turns out we hit a vortex. The plane that had earlier crossed in front of us had left the air spinning pretty violently.

Answer 8

I've only flown on one occassion, but had four different flights within 4 days. On one flight, the captain was playing trivia the whole time with the passengers. He'd come over the intercom and ask a question to the passengers, then come back on about five minutes later to answer it. It gave me a giggle, anyway.

Answer 9

I was on a chartered plane, coming back from Operation Iraqi Freedom, and the flight attendants announced: "We keep tripping over your rifles, even though you put them under your seats, so please face your rifle muzzles inboard." Ahh, guess you had to be there. There were two hundred male Marines who hadn't seen an attractive girl in nearly a year, and 6 female stewardesses..

Answer 10

I have never NOT been delayed in Atlanta, off the subject I know. Of course I was delayed in Atlanta, as were the other one hundred or more people waiting for the plane. The more I think of it, it must have been a gag - an announcement comes over the loudspeaker "Paging Mr. Uterus! Mr. Uterus, please come to passenger services!". Everyone broke up laughing.