“Spicy Flight Attendant” Dishes On Pilots Sneaking Mid-Flight Cockpit Sex—So We Grabbed A Tape Measure And Checked The Cockpit Voice Recorder

‘Spicy Flight Attendant’ Cierra Misst once claimed that more than one group of passengers, and a ‘rookie pilot’ joined the mile high club on what appeared to have been:

  • a short flight between New York and Nashville
  • on a regional jet
  • where they hadn’t even known each other prior to takeoff.

This pilot was supposed to have come out of the cockpit long enough to get to know their counterparty, decide to go down this path and fully execute? It was a viral story from a woman trying to promote her OnlyFans account, not a plausible claim about reality.

The ex-Republic Airways crewmember whose real name is Cierra Huffman, whom American Airlines had to distance themselves from, is back with a new claim: “Here’s how pilots and flight attendants join the mile high club while they’re on the clock and you’re in the passenger seats”

So, there’s at least two pilots in the flight deck, and there has to be at least two people in the flight deck at all times on the flight.

If a pilot is hungry or has to pee, he has to come out of the flight deck, but a flight attendant has to go in there to replace him. And that’s how plans of initiation to join the mile high club is activated.

She says the plane is on autopilot anyway, so the pilots and flight attendants coordinate when it isn’t bumpy to get this done.

@cierra_mistt

since i switched from commercial to charter flight attendant, i can finally spill ALL the tea

♬ original sound – Cierra Mistt

First of all, a little bit of background on there needing to be two people in the cockpit even when the pilot goes to the lav. The ‘rule of two’ in the cockpit is not actually a federal requirement in the United States, except that airline rules related to security are filed with the TSA and they are required to enforce that security plan.

In Europe it is similarly an airline rule rather than an EU Aviation Safety Agency rule (though a safety bulletin for this was published in 2015, it was withdrawn in 2016). Canada issued an emergency order in 2015 but rescinded it in 2018. These former mandates came following Germanwings Flight 9525 where a pilot at the Lufthansa-owned carrier locked the captain out and crashed the Airbus A320 in the French Alps.

Let’s evaluate how likely this claim is, though:

  • Geometry. Usable floor width in the cockpit of an Embraer E-175 is about 4 feet 7 inches. Two adults can’t stand side-by-side without one of them straddling the center console. One person would have to be seated and the other sitting on their lap, but full intercourse seems like a genuine stretch of geometry.

  • Audio recording. Don’t forget the cockpit voice recorder! They’re going to have to do it very early in a long flight, to ensure any discussion or sounds gets written over by the end of the trip. And how long can the other pilot plausibly stay in the lav, 3 to 4 minutes?

  • The sex would be bad. So you slide one pilot’s seat fully aft to make room for strictly limited positions, hope nobody needs the cockpit voice recorded because of a hard landing even, and you bet on a quiet cruise with autopilot engaged and no air traffic control communication, you could probably technically do it but it wouldn’t likely be enjoyable for either party.

People have been joining the ‘Mile High Club’ since 1916 when Lawrence Burst Sperry, inventor of the autopilot, took a Curtis C-2 Flying Boat off the coast of Long Island and spent time with a woman whose husband was off in World War I. They crashed the plane into the bay and were rescued – naked – by duck hunters. If they could manage the feat then anything is possible.

However it is simply not the case that one of the two flight attendants on the planes that Ms. Misst was flying was regularly entering the cockpit of the regional jet, having sex with the lone remaining pilot while the other one waited in the lavatory, and doing it all on a short Republic Airways flight. It’s much more likely happening back at the layover hotel. A Las Vegas charter outfit does sell access to Mile High Club adventures though.

And once the 25-hour cockpit voice recording mandate is fully in effect, any chances of it ever happening will be pretty much over.

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Comments

  1. As they say, “The sex was bad, but it was better than nothing.”

    Also, as implausible as it seems, some people will do it just to be able to say they did.

  2. When the flight attendant or pilot in charge accidentally activates the radio transmit button, it alerts and entertains other pilots and air traffic control centers. I recommend using the aircraft transponder squawk code of 6969 as a suitable in-flight code.

  3. Two bit hoe. That’s all she is, and some of you idiots pay her on Only Fans?

  4. Holy smokes, she has gained a bunch of weight. I’d been ignoring her for some time, so her new “look” came as quite a shock. I guess at least we know it’s not her squeezing into the limited space available for cockpit quickies.

  5. @tom — Gotta do somethin’ to pass the time while nearly every flight in NYC is delayed 2 hours. Wind? Seriously? Psh.

    @Coffee Please — Wait, some of y’all pay? Oof. I mean, you do you, but there are better ways.

  6. @coffee please such a waste of $ I’ve seen her whack for free. She could use some pointers, but she’s got nuts for putting it out on video.

  7. @Gary. I assume, please correct me if I’m wrong, that the cockpit voice recorderings are only ever reviewed if there is an incident. Thus, someone with risk-taking behaviors might very well ignore the risk from the extreme unlikelihood they’d ever be caught on the tape (or even enjoy the gamble, like public sex lovers). There are, as you point out, many others reasons to question this story. BTW, I have to imagine we’re not long from a world where, every time a plane pulls up to the gate, all recorded data since it last left a gate is uploaded and saved.

  8. Cockpit voice recorders….No problem, There is a circuit breaker to turn it off. Reset the breaker when finished. Or you could erase the recorder. Most CVRs I have seen over 30 plus years have a 30 minute loop. Meaning if you did this after 30 minutes it would be erased.

  9. Why is this web site even showing this “hoe”? I’m surprised that her employer hasn’t recognized her. Like most narcissistic people posting stuff that best not be shown, her expose’ will soon catch up and…POOF…fired!

  10. @Bob. There is a saying comparing sex with pizza: “When it’s good it’s really good, and when it’s bad it’s still pretty good.

  11. Gary dramatically underestimates the creative positions and lustful desires of flight crews. Also, his blanket statement that the sex is bad is… well… said from a viewpoint of someone that doesn’t seem that sexually advbenturous! It’s like saying “Chocolate ice crem tastes bad.” Maybe for you…

  12. Her breasts alone would require weight and balance check. Gary. This does nothing for the rep of the profession. Aren’t things bad enough? Disgusting.

  13. @CommercialPilot — “advbenturous” … I see what you did there, you little contortionist, you.

  14. @Ken A:
    > I recommend using the aircraft transponder squawk code of 6969 as a suitable in-flight code.

    TL;DR – jump to the ### part.

    The Mode A (or C or S) transponders transmit a code (transponder code aka “squawk code”) of 32 bits, represented on most transponders as 4 octets. An octet is an 8-bit representation of data, commonly known as a byte, but bytes have traditionally been variable in size so “octet” is more correct.

    The digits used to represent octets are octal in nature, meaning there are 8. Zero through 7.

    Well known codes:
    7500 Hijack (Hi Jack)
    7600 NORDO (Can’t talk)
    7700 EMERGENCY (Going down)

    For VFR flight 1200 is for all aircraft not otherwised assigned an ATC beacon code in the US. In the UK it’s 7000.

    In the US 1203 is the lead aircraft of a multi-aircraft (“flight of N”).

    2000 is the “I’m an idiot IFR pilot who lost contact with ATC and have now entered an area where I need a discrete code. Hepp me queek” code.

    ###
    There is no 9.
    There is no 69.
    Queue the Beavis and Butthead “heh heh he said 69.”

  15. @gavron:

    A very through explanation that’s mostly wrong.

    Bytes are not “traditionally” not always 8 bits. They may ARCHAICALY be something other than 8 bits, but it’s been decades since 8 bits per byte hasn’t been the standard.

    Bytes are also not recorded in octet notation. They are recorded in two digits of hex notation, 0-9a-f. 4 digits of that is indeed 32 bits.

    Squawk codes are recorded in octet notation because Squawk codes are 12 bits and an octet (0-7) is 3 bits. Four 3-bit octets = 12 bits.

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