Whats the strangest....

landing at zakinthos in Greece it sounded like the pilot couldn't get the landing gear down? kept hearing banging and bumping underneath and he kept trying to approach the runway, my wife was getting a tad worried.

a hen party for 4 hours grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr SHUT UP !!!!!!!!!!

I was on a test flight where thy were showing me how a spiral spin starts. All the warnings were flashing and shouting "danger danger", the altitude was dropping super quick and the spinning was total disorientating. Great fun!

[squirrel_hunter]

My Sister.

On a flight to Paris (her first time on a plane) she had wound herself up so much with worry about flying that she was crying as we were taking off. Her face was red with tears streaming down her face and snot coming out of her nose. Just as we got airborne she started to realize just how stupid she was being and started to relax a bit as she accepted that we were not plunging to our doom and started to smile with relief.

But even as she was smiling looking relived and special, she still continued to cry with sheer terror. I have never before or since seen anyone display two distinct polar emotions at the same time.

She was 16 at the time.

i managed to hussle a complelty free 1st class ticket to the states!

when my brother went on a plane for the 1st time he was really excited and wanted to watch the take off, but he fell asleep, and my parents couldnt wake him (he was about 3/4) and he slept all the way through the flight only to wake up after the plan had taxied in after landing, to ask the question 'are we going to take off soon!?'

been in a few dilberate stalls in 2 man planes and gliders, barrel rolls and loop the loops, but they just make me feel sick! lol

I would really hate to be sat next to someone who was a real nervous flyer. You know the type that grabs your arm and sinks in their nails at the slightest bit of turbulence. I am an ok flyer, I just find it soooo boring but someone like I mentioned can easilly unsettle you.

Do you find flying like riding in an elevator? I NEVER speak to a stranger sat next to me or to anyone in a lift?

Hmmm ... not sure that's the right place to share it with people but .... once ... I sh*t myself on the plane ... wearing white City shorts ... priceless! Is that strange enough?

Originally Posted by Vickster

Whats the strangest thing that you have done on a Aeroplane?

Originally Posted by squirrel_hunter

My Sister.

She was 16 at the time.

Originally Posted by Pedrosa

I would really hate to be sat next to someone who was a real nervous flyer. You know the type that grabs your arm and sinks in their nails at the slightest bit of turbulence. I am an ok flyer, I just find it soooo boring but someone like I mentioned can easilly unsettle you.

[timwilky]

I had grabbed a last minute "crew" seat due to flight **** ups and the available empty seat, strange was the guy sitting across the aisle from me on a flight to Dubai. He seemed to be talking to himself. The returning cabin crew who was sat next to me had clocked him and commented on him to me.


Well he goes to the toilet and next thing holy hell breaks out. The off duty crew next to me jumps up, opens an overhead, grabs a fire extinguisher and kicks open the toilet door.

He had only filled the toilet with paper and set fire to it. I had the job of restraining his travel companion until such time as they could fit them both with cable ties. Amazing how the training kicked for the crew who had pushed me out of the way to get to the locker with the extinguisher shouting to me "hold him".

Most disturbing was a flight to Paris, I bumped into my FD in the lounge and was chatting over a coffee about how much the company spent on airfares and he casually commented that statistically we must be due to loose someone in a plane crash. The flaps stuck on that flight and the landing was aborted, we came round again and the pilot had to compensate for a lack of flaps with power and came in very hard. All the trolleys broke away and went flying down the aisle. I honestly thought that I was going to be that statistic