7 Hours Sitting In It: British Airways Passenger Wets Herself And Shoves Bare Feet Into Neighbor’s Seat

A passenger flying British Airways from Boston to London Heathrow reports that the woman seated beside them in premium economy urinated in her seat. And sat in it. For the full duration of the flight, blocked at about 7.5 hours.

The woman, seated in 21J at the aisle in the back, “already didn’t smell great” and stuck her bare feet through the gap in the seat in front of her. Yet, oddly, there were no signs she was intoxication – “[s]he didn’t seem drunk or acted weird beyond the wee and taking her shoes off.”

When the woman finally stood up, the passenger at the window was among the last to deplane and flagged the seat issue to a flight attendant, hoping that it might be addressed while the aircraft was on the ground and could still be cleaned before the next flight.

Instead of getting up and going to the bathroom, the woman next to me in 21J (who already didn’t smell great) urinated in her seat and then sat in it for the entire flight.

… it was the aisle seat right at the back of premium economy. I was in the window seat and tried to sleep most of the flight.

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One online commenter tried to be sympathetic but failed, “Maybe she has bladder issues … but again… aisle seat.”

This kind of incident is handled as routine biofluid contamination. The proper procedure is cleaning and cushion replacement, unless there’s suspicion of a communicable disease. Cabin crew note the contamination. Engineering removes and replaces the seat cushion, and the surrounding area gets sanitized during the turn.

(HT: Paddle Your Own Kanoo)

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Comments

  1. Mental illness is a real thing and is getting worst. She may have not been drunk but I’d bet money she was pilled to the max.

  2. It is a misconception that urine is sterile. Somebody that sits in it the duration of the flight must have mental health issues. I hope nobody had stuff under the seats!

  3. Yuck.

    I feel for the surrounding passengers, the cleaning crews (if any), and the passengers on the next flight, who likely will have to deal with the lingering smell.

    Urinating on your seat and/or feet poking through to anyone else’s seat are both disgusting and wrong.

    As @George Romey would say, probably a ‘Cluster B’ individual; perhaps, they felt ‘entitled’ to piss themselves…

  4. If she was asked to move her foot and didn’t a sharp object to the foot would solve one problem.

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