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I was flying from Minneapolis to Cancun. We were over the Gulf of Mexico. It was quite turbulent.
Long story short, a middle aged woman, who was in the end stages of cancer, lost control of her bowels (diarrhea) spreading it down the last 8 or 10 rows of a DC-10. She then got it all over one lavatory. I mean everywhere. She put what she could in the sink and not in the toilet.
A few kids were puking (like on their parents and brothers/sisters) because of the bumps. Some woman tried to cover up the smell of the poop and puke with her perfume... This started her female friend to start puking. Due to all the smell a bunch of other adults started throwing up, too.
People were getting other people's poop and puke on them-selves. All of this and we still had about an hour and a half left of the flight. It looked like a war zone. |
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G W
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Using the outside toilet |
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nosdda
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When flying back from Australia, We ran into the edge of a Typhoon over the Bay of Bengal which is close to mailand India. They were serving drinks on the plane at the time, when the plane suddenly dropped about a 1,000ft. Drinks went everywhere and the plane was buffeted for about 20 minutes. Very Scary. Another occasion was to put up with a 12 hour delay leaving Tunisia, In a more or less Tin hut of a departure lounge. The temperature was 110F and the celing fans were not working. It was like sitting in a Sauna for all that time. |
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giucy
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NC your obviously a well travelled and experienced pilot!!!
BA don't have captains as young as 21, maybe get your facts right or not exaggerate the facts! As for coming in heavy and horizontal the plane could have come into contact with crosswinds on final approach, or someother weather related issue that was undetected on radar the pilot if in crosswinds needs to maintain speed to counteract the crosswinds so the he or she can still keep in control of the aircraft. This could then result in a heavy bumpy landing, sometimes if the landing is heavier than normal or the downforce on the wings brings the aircraft down a bit heavy then it can result in bunny hopping this is nothing to be worried about, but its nothing to do with the captains or the co-pilots capability of landing a plane, they are trained to land planes in all kinds of conditions, if the pilot was not happy with his or her approach then the pilot would of overshot and gone down again.
sometimes aircraft on heavy landings can slightly damage the undercarriage, but people tend to over exaggerate the truth and make it out that they are going to die or crash. |
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Getting back from Florida about two years ago. We were supposed to fly out on a Friday but a snow storm shut-down the US east coast. We had a connection at Philly, but US AIR canceled it. We booked a flight to Pittsburgh for Monday followed by a Tuesday flight to Toronto. Got to Pittsburgh. Next day US AIR canceled our flight to Toronto. There were no other flights to T.O. that day. Switch to plan B. We flew to Buffalo,took to a taxi into Canada, rented a car and drove home. I have not used US AIR since and do not plan to either. |
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Coming back from florida in april last year - felt sick and ended up being sick like everywhere - i love flying so cant understand why this happened :/
Going to iceland in october 07, the plane was very bumpy all the way, and when landing in Iceland, the weather was like gale force winds, and when the plane landed it toppled like from side to side a few times before finally landing. People at the bottom of the plan stairs (on the runway when the plane had stopped) were clinging onto the stairs for dear life! So scary, luckily i slept most of the way home. Iceland is amazing - go there. |
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Freeeeezing !
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I really do love flying but one time was sorta bad...
It was from Dublin Airport to Canary Islands...
and was a late flight...so most of the men had loads of booze...
3 sat behind us..and had got a massive tuna sand which the smell of it was disgusting.
Then the others at the back...were sick in the toilet...so it wasn't too nice for the airhostess'ss and we were very near the front !!! |
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Lollie
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My first time flying from Heathrow to Lisbon, I was so nervous my legs were shaking so bad!! and I screamed to much when the plane turned after take of that the man in front was laughing I was gripping on to his seat screaming "I'm going to die!!" and when we landed I had to have help to walk my legs were so badly shaking, the flight back was a lot better still shaking but not screaming. Apparently it was a very good flight, it could of been worse :s, and I want to travel the world!! lol |
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Gillygems
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Landing at Birmingham (UK) and taking straight off again - the airport was "snowbound" - in may - we had to fly onto the East Midlands in pitch black in the middle of the night. |
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pink
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It just happened to me this past September. I took my boyfriend on his first vacation ever. First before we even got on the plane he threw up from being so nervous, then he refused to talk to me the whole flight. Then we get on the plane and has an electrical break down or something like that. We sat there for an hour and a half before we even taxied on the runway. Then on the flight my boyfriend felt sick again and I've never seen him look so bad before. Then my doctor had given me a nose spray to keep my nose from being stuffed on the plane but instead it kept all of the conjestion in my sinuses and gave me this pain in my eye while landing like I've never felt before. I was crying in pain, he was naseous and sick and it was terrible. |
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Guitar Lady
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When I was flying from Melbourne to Hong Kong, the weather in Hong Kong was terrible, so the pilot spoke to us all and said that there were loads of planes in the holding pattern over Hong Kong and we didn't have enough fuel to wait for a clear landing spot, so we'd have to make an unscheduled landing in Manila. When we came in for the landing, he came in much too fast and it was really bumpy. I must admit to being a little scared at that point.
Oh yes, and the time when I flew to Palma and I had a really bad cold - the pressure just built up during the flight and I felt like my ear-drums were going to burst, it was so painful. |
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-NC- No.1 FLORIAN REUSCH FAN!
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As a passenger on a British Airways flight from London Gatwick to Faro. The captain and co-pilot were both very young, no more than 21 to be truthful. And as we were landing, I did feel as if we were coming in too fast and too horizontal.
I was right...
After a horrifying 15 minutes, suddenly the runway came into view of the windows and the plane hit the ground horizontal, all wheels at once.
There was this horrific loud bang and the lockers rattled, and the seats vibrated as the sheer force of the landing on all wheels (rather than the back wheels touching down first, then the front)
The force was so hard, the plane came back in the air, and hit again and stayed on the runway. Using maximum braking power and full reverse thrust - we stopped just at the end of the runway.
We were bussed out and the plane towed back onto the taxi-way.
I saw as I was leaving that the next BA flight was "Delayed" obviously after the landing.
No flare landing - damaged the landing gear and almost killed everyone.
Never again British Airways. |
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bavwill
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A 14 hour fight with NO turbulence. |
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Tooth ruptured 30 minutes before landing. No painkillers available, but had a 'nice' visit to the dentist the next morning! |
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A noob who never hears
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My ears getting owned by air pressure in short distrance from UK to East Europe |
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