What's the worst experience you have ever had in a plane ?

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Twi Light

Airline lost my luggage for over 2 months when I went to Italy. PS I live in California.

I spent the whole time in Florence with no change of clothes or frankly anything.

******* Air France.....

Same trip: We got to France and were supposed to connect to a plane to Florence (me and 15 other students). We ended up getting there and staring at the bus to the plane as it parked outside the gate. The guy would not let us on even though our teacher was on the bus and it was 5 feet away and sat there for 10 minutes. The flight was on the ground for over two hours half empty and they would not let us on.

They also would not let our teacher get off the flight so we were left behind with no guide or teacher.

We ended up getting redirected twice before getting to Florence a day later after sleeping in the airport.

On the way home our flight was delayed which made us miss the next flight along with 600 other people delayed at the same airport and others due to bad weather. The line for a new ticket literally took over 8 hours and we were towards the front! We ended up having to stay the night in a hotel and go out the next morning (flight again delayed due to a broken down truck.) was again redirected four times. Didn't get home for another week.

I feel bad for the people towards the end of that line. They must have been there for two or three days (just in line).

Fun times. Meanwhile my luggage is still missing.

J D

I was taking a one hour flight on a small 20-passenger plane. As we were taking off the gentleman (I use that term loosely here) sitting next to me tried to get up to use the restroom. The flight attendant told him he needed to wait about 5 minutes until we had reached altitude. After she walked away he pulled out the vomit bag, unzipped, and proceeded to pee in the bag. Didn't bother to cover himself or anything. When we got off of the plane I immediately notified security and he was detained. They covered the story in my local paper and I sent a copy of it to HIS local paper.

Ritch

When the inflight movie was all about fatal air disasters.

Didn't go down too well.

patrioticjock

A 9.5 hour flight in a 767. A 2 - 4 - 2 seat configuration.

I asked the checkin lady if she could please give me an emergency row seat. I was so pleased when she did, although she seemed to be in a cranky mood.

It was an aisle seat with one empty window seat beside me (no middle seat). Unfortunately there was a lavatory across the aisle from me, but I figured it was a small price to pay for the extra leg room.

I wondered if I would be so lucky as to get the window seat as well. All the passengers had loaded but we hadn't pulled back from the gate. I figured I couldn't be so lucky, since the plane was otherwise totally full. They must be processing the few standby passengers.

Then... she came in! A woman who must have weighed no less than 400 pounds. She had crutches to help keep walk with all that weight. My hair was standing on end as I watched her coming towards me. I knew my fate.

She took her seat beside me (and half of mine) and asked the hostess for one of those seat belt extentions. I didn't know they existed, and I've been a frequent flyer for ten years.

Although I wanted to sympathize with her own discomfort, my discomfort was agonizing. I was basically forced to lean WAY out into the aisle on one cheek of my butt. I actually ended up with a hemorrhoid!

Then the flight got under way. Mealtime came about an hour into the flight. My tray was in my armrest, because of the emergency exit row I was in. It was absolutely impossible to use, since a hundred pounds of the woman beside me were hanging over the opposite armrest. I had to go hungry.

Once the meal was over and the movie started, there were plenty of people who needed to use the lavatory. They queued up for it. It lasted the entire duration of the flight. I had my HEAD in the aisle.

The flight was Air Canada, which only has a few tv's shared among several rows. The queing farters continuously bumped their butts into my head as they tried to position themselves better to see the tv in the cabin in front of me.

9.5 hours of torture.

ShawnYueRox

my ear is super ultra pain that i hope i will die immediately

veito da costa

Landing at Washington, Dulles, during a thunderstorm. Wouldn't want to go through anything like that again.

Lancelot

there were snakes on it

nicolefrenzy

last September we took the kids on holiday 2 boys ages 4 and 1 and a half complete nightmare for me and probably the whole of the plane kids screamed the whole time or were shouting and fighting never again will stick to butlins for the next few years or go to Paris on ferry

Lady Hazy

Kenya Airways - a Focker Something, we shared the flight with 8 goats 10 chickens several dogs 4 monkeys and a cow (no that wasnt the stewardess) not to mention 5 very warlike masaii warriors complete with spears, and yes this was on the passenger deck i dread to think what was in the cargo hold,

Not too sure the pilot had ever actually flown a plane before, he seemed to think the more he actually bounced the plane down the runway the more chance he had of getting off the ground and to this day I am sure he had his eyes closed when we landed.....

ditzylea

taking off for the first time, I was freaking out. it was scary biscuits.

Stefbear

I love this question! My worst experience was in 99 going to Colorado. Our flight was fine. We had a layover in Detroit. Our lanind felt really funny that day and rough. My 9 year son at the time had looked out the window and we were sourrounded by every kind of emergency vehicle you could think of. Our plan had blown 2 tires in the landing gear upon landing. We were miserable! We had to sit on that plane on the runway for almost 2 hours while they tried to decide how to get us off the plane. They kept going back and forth from the emergency shute in the back or taxing the plane to the terminal. They would line us up then make us sit down. I had my 2 oldest sons with me a 9 year old and a baby with me. Not an expiereince I will ever forget. They told us if they taxied the plane to the terminal the plane could tip and then explode with us on it. They ended up putting a truck under each wing of the plane and taxing the plane to the terminal. We were glad to get off of that plane!

koz

The worst experience I have ever had on a plane was when I lost my passport between paying my exit fees out of Samoa at the counter in the airport and queuing to board my flight. Although it is illegal to knowingly let a passenger depart without proper authority to enter the arriving country, the agent let me board the flight. Upon arrival to Australia, however, I had no visa or legal rights to enter the country. It was a very long day with customs.

bigtdotcom

flying with british airways absolutely dire give me emirates all the time

Barbara Doll to you

Really bad turbulence. Or was that flatulence?

elly

Not so much worst but thought funny.
Whilst travelling and they had shown movie but was not enough time for another so they showed the first episode of 'LOST'.
Highly inappropriate for those with fear of flying!!! TEE HEE HEE

MÃ¼tterchen Frost

Two noisy rows of Germans in front of me, smelling of cabbage soup. Yikes..

soccerknocker199

never actually had one besides lost luggage which isnt that bad and we have always gotten it back.

sticky

I've been pretty lucky really for how much I have travelled. The worst general experience was flying from New Orleans to LA. There was a thunder storm right before takeoff and we were grounded for four hours. I had taken a sleeping pill on boarding and fell asleep on my tray table as soon as I sat down. When I woke up we still hadn't taken off and I was stuck with a sleeping pill hangover for the actual flight.

vitomurc

it was the first time i flew ,i was 30 yrs old and i dropped off to sleep. my husband woke me up as i sat by the window, in view of the wings . he said rose the plane is on fire, i started panicking,he said only joking it was the colour of the sun reflecting, thank god i was happy to go on holiday or i would of killed him, in a manor of speech.

itry007

Was taking off and suddenly remembered I hadn't seen my keys for the entire trip. As plane was taking off, I began frantically searching through my purse. I was dizzy, etc. then experienced motion sickness...luckily not until I got off the plane tho.

Amelie

Dropped a bit of oil from my pasta on my jeans. I was off travelling for 3 months, and I only had 2 pairs. The stain never went away.

Oh, and Chantelle and Preston sat behind me on a flight, that was quite horrible too.

landing in Atlanta, Ga. Descent seemed kind of rapid.

<BEE>

1st the delay,then cramped seats then the food.

Super Girl

I had to sit next to a smelly fat guy that snored so loud he had to be waken up several times and his feet smelled like Britney spears.

I will never fly again.

scaffmasterus

Flying charter into an airport with 2 pounds of hash and seeing a runway full of cops. The rest is history.

creak165

dunno

Dr Jeep

I once had to fly economy class.

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