| Worst flight / service / food etc on a plane? 15:01 - Sep 15 with 4711 views | RangersDave3 |
Lots of guys and girls here have flown, so what’s your worst ever flight and why? |  | | |  |
| Worst flight / service / food etc on a plane? on 15:04 - Sep 15 with 2615 views | Boston |
Coming in low over the Mekong Delta, tracer fire arching it's way through the sky... | |
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| Worst flight / service / food etc on a plane? on 15:07 - Sep 15 with 2582 views | nick_hammersmith |
Landed at Lukla once in Nepal. Didn't find out until years later that its the most dangerous airport landing in the world!
Although I thought takeoff was more scary, as its like being in a lift with the cable cut |  | | |
| Worst flight / service / food etc on a plane? on 15:37 - Sep 15 with 2496 views | PlanetHonneywood |
I was on an internal flight from Nha Trang to HCMC in 1997. The flight attendant walked down the aisle handing out little boxes. I was the only westerner and not one local opened their box.
Thinking I might one day be asked on a QPR forum about this, I pluck up the courage, tear the tape off and open the box, to reveal a 'triangle' of God knows what inside. Before I could do any damage, the passengers across the aisle and beside me shake their heads, the latter actually put his hand over the box!
A few minutes later the attendant walks back up the plane with a load of unopened boxes and shoots me this venomous look when she sees that I had torn the tape off mine and opened the box.
I was also on a flight from Perth to Jo'burg when a fight broke out between two big old units by the doors a couple of hours in. Scared the bejaysus out of everyone, because you just don't know at 38,000 feet! Captain had to intervene and if memory serves, he threatened to turn the flight around. Every time one or other got up, there was a collective intake of breath until they sat down; coppers were at Jo'burg when we landed. |  |
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| Worst flight / service / food etc on a plane? on 15:44 - Sep 15 with 2476 views | dsw2509 |
Emirates, landing at Hong Kong during a storm. There was a screen showing the images from the forward camera. Screen was blank, plane was bouncing around all over the place. Suddenly the runway lights appeared-really close. Plane then lands with a tremendous thud. The runway lights swing to the right, then to the left. Reverse thrust like nothing I have ever heard before. Half the passengers throwing up. That was possibly the scariest 20 seconds of my life. | | | |
| Worst flight / service / food etc on a plane? on 15:55 - Sep 15 with 2445 views | BazzaInTheLoft |
Sat next to this dude on a flight who had a long bag slumped in the empty seat next to him.
Got chatting but it got awkward when I asked him what was in the bag and he said 'none of your fcking business'.
When he got up I took a peek inside though. [Post edited 15 Sep 15:55]
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| Worst flight / service / food etc on a plane? on 15:58 - Sep 15 with 2421 views | ted_hendrix |
Biman Bangladesh Airlines an aged 737 coming into land at Nepal airport, we hit a tropical storm on the way In, on the first attempt to land we were battered relentlessly by the wind and rain, we were about 100 feet above what looked like the runway, the pilot opened up the throttle and went straight back up, second attempt was even worse as the wheels actually touched down with a bloody loud bang, we bounced up and the pilot once again opened up the throttles and once more we went straight up again, this time though kids were screaming and the stink of vomit circulated the cabin. I was right at the front two seats as the only White bloke on the plane, I said to the the bloke next to me (hoping he spoke English (WTF Is going on?) he spoke perfect English and told me he lived In Kathmandu as a Nepalese businessman a frequent flyer but had never experienced anything like this before.
After getting up In the air again the Pilot eventually spent Two minutes explaining what he was gonna do next, the bloke next to me translated for me that the Idiot was gonna try and land the plane again.
Add landing attempt One and Two together and that was the result of his third attempt at landing.
We flew back up In the air again turned left and flew back to Bangladesh, there are two seats at the front of the plane where the stewardesses sit, both those Girls were terrified.
I'd already seen Mount Everest with the sun rising behind It from my journey from Kuwait to Bangladesh but I wanted to go to the Everest base camp, which I never got round to actually doing. |  |
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| Worst flight / service / food etc on a plane? on 16:11 - Sep 15 with 2375 views | EastR |
Flying in-out of Kabul is like being on the aerial equivalent of a corkscrew | |
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| Worst flight / service / food etc on a plane? on 16:15 - Sep 15 with 2348 views | aston_hoop |
Had a couple of ropey attempts landing in Cusco, Peru. Was almost like they were waiting for the airport to appear above the clouds its so high there. Didn't make it the first time after one hell of a bang on landing, pilot said nothing as we bounced around for at least 10 agonising minutes before stating (in Spanish) that we were almost ready to do it all over again. Never been so pleased to be on the ground in one piece.
If you're ever in Indonesia, the local airlines are an experience. Flew with a company called Lion Air on a couple of legs and their planes make their near namesake Ryanair feel like business class luxury. The leg room was Loftus Road standard and the condition of the planes was awful. Might as well just have the words 'As seen on Air Crash Investigation' on the inflight magazine, because they certainly have been |  |
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| Worst flight / service / food etc on a plane? on 16:29 - Sep 15 with 2311 views | johann28 |
| Worst flight / service / food etc on a plane? on 15:44 - Sep 15 by dsw2509 |
Emirates, landing at Hong Kong during a storm. There was a screen showing the images from the forward camera. Screen was blank, plane was bouncing around all over the place. Suddenly the runway lights appeared-really close. Plane then lands with a tremendous thud. The runway lights swing to the right, then to the left. Reverse thrust like nothing I have ever heard before. Half the passengers throwing up. That was possibly the scariest 20 seconds of my life. |
Yup, much the same experience - plane struck by lightning coming into Chicago with much the same effect. Horrible combo of screams and vomit, the crunch as we (literally) hit the runway gave all the bones in my body a truly terrifying rattle.
Mind you, still less bad an experience than Wembley in 86, which I've never recovered from. [Post edited 15 Sep 16:31]
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| Worst flight / service / food etc on a plane? on 16:39 - Sep 15 with 2263 views | TakeNoPrisonRrrrs |
Sat next to this dude on a flight who had a long bag slumped in the empty seat next to him.
Got chatting but it got awkward when I asked him what was in the bag and he said 'none of your fcking business'.
When he got up I took a peek inside though.
[Post edited 15 Sep 15:55]
Know this one 😃😉 | | | |
| Worst flight / service / food etc on a plane? on 16:41 - Sep 15 with 2246 views | ted_hendrix |
| Worst flight / service / food etc on a plane? on 16:29 - Sep 15 by johann28 |
Yup, much the same experience - plane struck by lightning coming into Chicago with much the same effect. Horrible combo of screams and vomit, the crunch as we (literally) hit the runway gave all the bones in my body a truly terrifying rattle.
Mind you, still less bad an experience than Wembley in 86, which I've never recovered from. [Post edited 15 Sep 16:31]
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Chicago airport Is bloody huge, I landed there on my way to Memphis (connecting flight) It took me nigh on 45 minutes to to walk to the Memphis departure gate. (as per usual In the States the Memphis flight was overbooked and at the departure gate there was utter chaos). | |
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| Worst flight / service / food etc on a plane? on 17:00 - Sep 15 with 2197 views | loftboy |
Flying into Munich in 1990. Lufthansa 737 so a small plane, on the approach and still several hundred feet in the air I said to my work colleague, “blimey the runways down there” don’t know whether the pilot had misjudged it but suddenly he dropped, the plane bounced twice, loads of the over head lockers flew open, we had honestly thought we had crashed! |  |
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| Worst flight / service / food etc on a plane? on 17:07 - Sep 15 with 2168 views | dmm |
About 20 years ago coming into Nairobi we hit the most appalling air pockets that people were screaming and praying. It did feel like we were in free fall at times! |  | | |
| Worst flight / service / food etc on a plane? on 17:10 - Sep 15 with 2148 views | loftboy |
On the others end of the spectrum, last month I flew from Norwich airport to Amsterdam With KLM, took off, seat belt sign went off, got a complimentary snack and a bottle of water, seat belt sign went back on and we landed exactly 30 minutes after taking off.
On the way home we landed at 13:30 and was back to my car at 13:40
Flying from Norwich is great, only 4 flights a day, last year I went to Rhodes for a week followed by 10 days in menorca, we got off our plane on the Wednesday and got back on exactly the same plane with the same cabin crew on the Saturday!
Shame they don’t fly to Germany as it would save me major ballsache getting to Stansted. | |
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| Worst flight / service / food etc on a plane? on 17:16 - Sep 15 with 2111 views | nick_hammersmith |
| Worst flight / service / food etc on a plane? on 15:37 - Sep 15 by PlanetHonneywood |
I was on an internal flight from Nha Trang to HCMC in 1997. The flight attendant walked down the aisle handing out little boxes. I was the only westerner and not one local opened their box.
Thinking I might one day be asked on a QPR forum about this, I pluck up the courage, tear the tape off and open the box, to reveal a 'triangle' of God knows what inside. Before I could do any damage, the passengers across the aisle and beside me shake their heads, the latter actually put his hand over the box!
A few minutes later the attendant walks back up the plane with a load of unopened boxes and shoots me this venomous look when she sees that I had torn the tape off mine and opened the box.
I was also on a flight from Perth to Jo'burg when a fight broke out between two big old units by the doors a couple of hours in. Scared the bejaysus out of everyone, because you just don't know at 38,000 feet! Captain had to intervene and if memory serves, he threatened to turn the flight around. Every time one or other got up, there was a collective intake of breath until they sat down; coppers were at Jo'burg when we landed. |
What were the triangles for? I need to know more about this! | | | |
| Worst flight / service / food etc on a plane? on 17:25 - Sep 15 with 2077 views | BlackCrowe |
| Worst flight / service / food etc on a plane? on 17:16 - Sep 15 by nick_hammersmith |
What were the triangles for? I need to know more about this! |
Internal prop flight from Havana to Isla Juventud. It was only aboout 30-40 mins, but the russian built plane was falling apart, open gaps around the windows when we boarded and hit major turbulence. I had a few mojitos that night. |  |
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| Worst flight / service / food etc on a plane? on 17:35 - Sep 15 with 2050 views | PlanetHonneywood |
| Worst flight / service / food etc on a plane? on 15:44 - Sep 15 by dsw2509 |
Emirates, landing at Hong Kong during a storm. There was a screen showing the images from the forward camera. Screen was blank, plane was bouncing around all over the place. Suddenly the runway lights appeared-really close. Plane then lands with a tremendous thud. The runway lights swing to the right, then to the left. Reverse thrust like nothing I have ever heard before. Half the passengers throwing up. That was possibly the scariest 20 seconds of my life. |
Was that at the old airport or the new one?
The former was a scary landing at the best of times! | |
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| Worst flight / service / food etc on a plane? on 17:41 - Sep 15 with 2041 views | Paddyhoops |
They ask for a € 10 Euro “development “ fee at the departure gate at Knock airport .
I’ve flown out of there 100 times in the last 30 years. I’ve paid for a lot of development. | | | |
| Worst flight / service / food etc on a plane? on 17:47 - Sep 15 with 2018 views | PlanetHonneywood |
| Worst flight / service / food etc on a plane? on 17:16 - Sep 15 by nick_hammersmith |
What were the triangles for? I need to know more about this! |
It was the inflight meal, Nicholas.
No idea if it was animal, vegetable or mineral. Probably bit of an old tyre left over from the American War, which they are still serving up. | |
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| Worst flight / service / food etc on a plane? on 17:51 - Sep 15 with 1994 views | ted_hendrix |
| Worst flight / service / food etc on a plane? on 17:41 - Sep 15 by Paddyhoops |
They ask for a € 10 Euro “development “ fee at the departure gate at Knock airport .
I’ve flown out of there 100 times in the last 30 years. I’ve paid for a lot of development. |
I didnt know that about the fee, great little airport though and bloody handy for Ballina. | |
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| Worst flight / service / food etc on a plane? on 17:56 - Sep 15 with 1982 views | PeterHucker |
can't think of any particularly bad experiences but I once flew from New York to London via Air India and they had the best inflight food ever!! |  | | |
| Worst flight / service / food etc on a plane? on 17:58 - Sep 15 with 1976 views | BostonR |
Spent too much of my working life traveling on planes. Two very memorable moments:
1. Heathrow to Boston - Feb 2003. Enormous snowstorm and two very difficult attempts at landing. I couldn’t see outside due to the volume of snow. Bumped into the crew in customs and the BA Captain said it was the most challenging weather he had ever landed in his many years of flying.
2. London - Cork - Jan 2013. Insane winds literally throwing the aircraft from side to side. I honestly thought my time was up. The Aer Lingus crew made it on the second attempt. |  | | |
| Worst flight / service / food etc on a plane? on 18:37 - Sep 15 with 1861 views | Paddyhoops |
| Worst flight / service / food etc on a plane? on 17:51 - Sep 15 by ted_hendrix |
I didnt know that about the fee, great little airport though and bloody handy for Ballina. |
Couldn’t agree more Ted. It was tongue in cheek and worth every penny when you consider I live 17 miles away in Roscommon.
As the great Christy Moore said . They’ll never be a miracle like the airport down at Knock .
I remember the train to Holyhead then the ferry and then the train from Dublin. A days journey back then . My brother and I did it for that “Milk cup final “ . Brutal journey. Brutal result.
Great facilities there now. | | | |
| Worst flight / service / food etc on a plane? on 19:38 - Sep 15 with 1720 views | hantssi |
| Worst flight / service / food etc on a plane? on 16:29 - Sep 15 by johann28 |
Yup, much the same experience - plane struck by lightning coming into Chicago with much the same effect. Horrible combo of screams and vomit, the crunch as we (literally) hit the runway gave all the bones in my body a truly terrifying rattle.
Mind you, still less bad an experience than Wembley in 86, which I've never recovered from. [Post edited 15 Sep 16:31]
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What on earth happened in 86 to leave such a bad impression on you?
Only bad things for me was being on the first flight after the Manchester plane fire in 85 on the same type of plane and recently coming into land in fog at Milan, took two goes. | | | |
| Worst flight / service / food etc on a plane? on 19:57 - Sep 15 with 1665 views | PlanetHonneywood |
Can't believe I forgot my Air Amazonia out of the Bolivian jungle back to La Paz in 2002.
Over the Andes on a plane that I've sat around bigger dinner tables. I had a panic attack, needed oxygen duringbthe flight, and my screams from the back to 'land this f....r', caused two Japanese passengers to start crying.
All prompted by seeing ice on the windows inside the plane and the co-pilot scraping ice from the pilot's window with an ATM card. | |
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