Scary airport/aeroplane instances

[ferretchucker]

okay, I was 9 and was going on my 3rd trip to America. Well, when we got to the x-ray bag bit, a guy walked through the metal detector and was fine, but suddenly, three men jumped on him and he started fumbling for something in his pocket. I was behind him and had just walked through and had heard someone scream My dad picked me and my sister up and all of us and my mum were going away when a guy called out "It's okay! False alarm!" It was halloween time and he was french. He couldn't speak english so he was fumbling for his translator. In his bag he had a fake human head he was taking to a party. I look back and laugh now but I was bloody terrified at the time. I thought he had a bomb and was trying to detonate it.


What scary things have happened to you in airports or on aeroplanes?

[bloody_ribcut]

whats an aeroplane?

is that like what the red hot chilli peppers were singing about?



anywho, i remember one time i got chocolate chip cookies on a plane.

[Papillon Noir]

I have so many stories about the airport. I actually used to work at the airport here in Baltimore as a baggage handler. Fun job, you really get in shape and the benefits are great (free airfare U.S. and $40 International), but the pay sucks so you can really go a lot of places.

Anyway, probably one of the grossest stories is about Ghana Airlines. If you ever decide to go to Africa, do not ride this airline. You can smell the bags across the tarmac. In that part of the world, they consider rotten meat as tasty so they do not go to great lengths to preserve it.

Some of co-workers used to work over there and they said that someone had checked a "bag" that was literally the back half of a zebra that was wrapped in saran wrap. It still had the skin on and everything. They would also have these real flimsy tote bags that they would have meat in that would tear open when you try to pick it up by the handles and maggots would fall out. It's gross.

There was also a time where there was this suitcase that was ridiculously heavy, over 200lbs. So they opened it an it was filled with doorknobs.

Iceland Air was bad too because people would try to "bring back" Salmon with them and forget that something like that needs to be refrigerated.

[ferretchucker]

something about that story stinks.

[stubbornforgey]

I have never had any bad experiences with any flights..
oh yeah Air New Zealand..

a wheel fell off ..stopping the wheel thingy to slot in properly
a part of the engine fell off during take off..
a bird got sucked into the engine

Quantas..a 1st time flyer was getting all hysterical..kept rocking in her chair
..demanding the plane land and let her off..
so wanted to walk over and thwack her across the back of her head'


other than that ..no problems at all :rolleyes:

[Kemal]

Scariest thing?

I stood behind this toolbag at the airport once:

http://img481.imageshack.us/img481/6026/leskomatthewnw8.jpg

Yes, he was wearing the question mark suit. I should have pushed him into a turbofan.

[Papillon Noir]

something about that story stinks.

What? You don't think it's true?

[ferretchucker]

(smelly meat...stinks...sarcasm...trying to make joke...need speach therapy...keep pausing...)

[novadawn969]

(smelly meat...stinks...sarcasm...trying to make joke...need speach therapy...keep pausing...)


More like a pun or whatnot.
Sarcasm is a bit different.
Like saying. " that must have been refreshing :rolleyes: "



Oh, and I've only been on a plane twice.
Nothing happened.
It was fine.
The airport was kinda boring...

[monalisa]

This wasn't scary, but it was funny. The BF and I were coming home from vacation and there was an open seat next to us (3 seats per space). So we were thinkin' "cool we have room to stretch". Then this woman sat next to us. Her husband was across the ailse and they were obviously not getting along, cuz she sat by us and hubby-poo had 3 seats all to himself. I was seated next to her and tried the obvious annoying things like wiggling in my seat a lot and hogging the armrest, but to no avail. So the BF takes it upon himself to let one rip, very audible and stinky. But it worked, she glanced over at us in disgust and went and sat by her husband. As embarrassed as I was, I was also grateful that it worked. Of course he giggled about it most of the flight home.

[Shadow]

I was all geared up and sitting in a microlight ready for the pilot to take off, on the half hour flight but it was taking ages. The pilot was repeating checks and stuff. At first I thought cool I'm in safe hands but then he got out and the tool kit came out. So I start to doubt just how safe I was gonna be, when the pilot gets back in, still nothing. So then out he gets again some more checks then gets back in. I am still unsure what the problem was but it was all ok apart from that rattle I heard during take off. I was pretty nervous about it but it was a damned cool flight. I'm ok with flying but when you know there are problems it is a bit scary.