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Describe your worst flight experience.

Posted on 12/22/13 at 1:52 pm
Posted by pivey14
In Your Head
Member since Mar 2012
15445 posts
Posted on 12/22/13 at 1:52 pm
I remember traveling to Disney World and the flight was extremely bumpy and the flight attendants were terrible as shite. Kids were crying and flight attendants were losing their shite because of it. Don't remember which airline it was, but Definitely the worst experience I have ever had.
This post was edited on 12/22/13 at 1:52 pm
Posted by Alahunter
Member since Jan 2008
90738 posts
Posted on 12/22/13 at 1:54 pm to
Flew coach once from Vegas to Atl. :shuddersatthought:

Ran short on the free peanuts in 1st class once.


(It's been awhile since I've flown)
Posted by UMRealist
Member since Feb 2013
35360 posts
Posted on 12/22/13 at 1:59 pm to
30 minute flight from Jackson to Memphis. It was my first fight ever and I was pretty nervous. It was a tiny twin engine plane and they sat me on the very back row by myself. Bumpy as hell
Posted by aslavey
Chicago
Member since Nov 2013
1380 posts
Posted on 12/22/13 at 2:03 pm to
Flight from LAX to Sydney was miserable. 15 hours in cramped seats in the back portion of the plane where everyone was standing in the aisles to stretch their legs.
Posted by beebefootballfan
Member since Mar 2011
19000 posts
Posted on 12/22/13 at 2:24 pm to
Went with a group of about 100 to teach English in China when I was in college. Because of the large number they took any ticket they could get their hands on to get us there.

LAX to Oakland
Crossed the Bay by bus to San Fran
San Fran to Tokyo
Tokyo to Bejing

Total time in airport or airplane 25 hrs.

Posted by wmr
North of Dickson, South of Herman's
Member since Mar 2009
32518 posts
Posted on 12/22/13 at 2:28 pm to
I was on a Southwest Dallas to Houston once, and as we were climbing, there was a loud whistling sound coming from the middle emergency exit on the right side. Freaked everybody out. The dudes in the exit row were holding it with their hands because they thought it was going to pop open.

I've been on extremely bumpy flights. Seems like every flight ever into Florida is nasty, because of the constant rain and clouds.

LAS to DEN this summer was so bumpy I thought I was going to throw up.

I really have too many to list.
Posted by aslavey
Chicago
Member since Nov 2013
1380 posts
Posted on 12/22/13 at 2:29 pm to
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beebefootballfan
Yeah but your flights were broken up by a pleasant bus ride.
Posted by wmr
North of Dickson, South of Herman's
Member since Mar 2009
32518 posts
Posted on 12/22/13 at 2:30 pm to
Asian couple changing a baby on a LA to DFW flight. Smelled baby shite the entire flight.

Hispanic woman who spoke no English had a huge panic attack on a ABQ to PHX flight once. She starts SCREAMING at the top of her lungs as we are taking off.
This post was edited on 12/22/13 at 2:31 pm
Posted by aslavey
Chicago
Member since Nov 2013
1380 posts
Posted on 12/22/13 at 2:32 pm to
quote:

She starts SCREAMING at the top of her lungs as we are taking off.
That's classic. I would have had a blast with that.
Posted by Montezuma
Member since Apr 2013
3629 posts
Posted on 12/22/13 at 2:32 pm to
Heavy turbulence and lightning during a flight from NOLA to SD. Admittedly thought I wasn't going to live.

And flights to Iraq were quite cramped, either commercial or military aircraft.
Posted by pvilleguru
Member since Jun 2009
60453 posts
Posted on 12/22/13 at 2:33 pm to
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Kids were crying
There really should segregate flights by people with kids and those without.
Posted by wmr
North of Dickson, South of Herman's
Member since Mar 2009
32518 posts
Posted on 12/22/13 at 2:35 pm to
It was terrible. Shrieking. And the flight attendant comes back and her translator/daughter is saying "She's saying she can't breathe', etc. They start wrapping her wrists with wet towels, putting one on her forehead. It must have been her first flight.

Posted by beaver
The 755 Club
Member since Sep 2009
46861 posts
Posted on 12/22/13 at 2:48 pm to
London to Barcelona on RyanAir

the worst landing I've ever been a part of

ETA first off, it was Ryan Air which is bad enough...longest flight I've taken on Ryan air...

So it smells like shitty hamburgers and BO, and sounds of shitty Ryan air ads for scratch tickets

Sitting in the cramped seat, we come in way too fast and hard, almost got whiplash when we slammed on the breaks
This post was edited on 12/22/13 at 2:54 pm
Posted by 3nOut
Central Texas, TX
Member since Jan 2013
28799 posts
Posted on 12/22/13 at 3:33 pm to
Posted by The Spleen
Member since Dec 2010
38865 posts
Posted on 12/22/13 at 3:49 pm to
Flying home on Christmas Eve my first Christmas after I graduated college with a stomach bug. Flight was fine, and the plane was virtually enmpty since it took off at 8pm, but it was a miserable 3 hour flight.
Posted by DCRebel
An office somewhere
Member since Aug 2009
17644 posts
Posted on 12/22/13 at 3:55 pm to
The worst I've experienced was just a lot of crying babies. No major turbulence, no vomit or shitty britches or any of that. Just the ear-piercing shrieks of babies.

Oh, and this one time from DC to Jackson, I sat next to some Jehova's Witness or some shite and she would NOT STOP TALKING ABOUT THE BIBLE. Like, the whole time. To me. In my damn ear. I was obviously reading something not the Bible, and she just had to let me know what I was missing out on.

It was really, really uncomfortable.
This post was edited on 12/22/13 at 3:59 pm
Posted by Hardy_Har
MS
Member since Nov 2012
16285 posts
Posted on 12/22/13 at 4:05 pm to
You probably needed it you dirty brained bastard..
Posted by Prof
Member since Jun 2013
42610 posts
Posted on 12/22/13 at 4:11 pm to
Never had a bad one. Then again, I flew in the roaring 90s and early 2000s when the airlines didn't cut every damn thing they could and TSA didn't want to give you an anal probe.

I really don't like the idea of flying now due to all the changes.
Posted by InfantryDawg
Valhalla
Member since Oct 2013
1777 posts
Posted on 12/22/13 at 4:21 pm to
Worst flight over all would be in a C-130 landing in Baghdad, Iraq. We were just getting in country and we just seemed to go straight down instead of circling before landing. Not sure if they did it to mess with us or out of necessity.
Commercial flights have sucked as well but I try to get a good buzz going so that I do not care what is happening.
Posted by trickydick12
college station
Member since Sep 2012
1669 posts
Posted on 12/22/13 at 4:24 pm to
Cleveland to Houston and some dumb counts had their hands up screaming like they were on a rollercoaster for 2 hours.
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