Late last month, the crew of a Swiss flight from Bangkok to Zurich filmed two first class passengers having oral sex in the galley.
A flight attendant on the Boeing 777-300ER videotaped this by aiming their phone’s camera at a monitor that was filming the entrance to the cockpit that displayed a live feed. They added their own explicit commentary, and shared it via WhatsApp.
The camera system is standard, was introduced after 9/11, and is designed for cockpit safety and access control – and, of course, not intended to record activity and are strictly for live monitoring. Of course the galley is not intended for the activity that was recorded, either.
Swiss has condemned the actions of both the passengers and the crew involved in the incident.
Filming people without their clear consent and sharing these recordings contradicts our guidelines and values and violates the applicable data protection regulations. This also applies on board.
Swiss has published a detailed message on its internal intranet, reminding employees of privacy guidelines and warning against further sharing of the video.
Here are the 8 most outrageous mile high club incidents of all time. Flight attendants filming are nothing new! When it became clear that passengers on a Ryanair flight were recoding their Mile High membership, a flight attendant opened the lavatory door to reveal them to the rest of the cabin after passengers egged him on to do it. Realizing they were exposed, the man inside quickly shut the door, while passengers cheered (and filmed).
— aney stokes (@VideosIrish) September 10, 2023
The flight was headed to Ibiza on the man’s 23rd birthday. He’s a car salesman, and the couple had just met at the airport. His mother saw the video on television. According to his mother, “You’re aware these things are going to happen at the holiday destination but you don’t expect it to happen on the flight.”
The mile high club is 108 years old, dating back to Lawrence Sperry, inventor of the autopilot, who took a woman (whose husband was driving an ambulance in France during World War I) up in a Curtiss Flying Boat C‑2. The two were 500 feet above the Long Island coast. During their adventure they bumped the autopilot. It disengaged, and they dropped into the bay. They were rescued by duck hunters – naked.
(HT: One Mile at a Time)
At least they were flying from Bangkok…
Geez Gary, another blatant error in your article…
Lawrence Sperry was definitely NOT the first member of the *MILE* high club!
I have the merit badge. 🙂
Thai Airways. LHR-BKK. 2014. First class, so there were two lavs for a total of like 12 passengers if I recall correctly which means they are huge and empty all the time.
It was the middle of the night. Most of the cabin was asleep.
*check*
No problem with them filming something going on in a public place. At least go to the lavatory and close the door!
Bang… kok… get it?!
Horrible flight attendants. They should be in jail. Total assholes
Incidentally, I’ve had Amex on plenty of F flights. But am careful and do not make a disturbance. Never any problems. EK, UA (when GF existed), NH, TG… the list goes on. Good times
Goddamit. SEX not AMEX. Damn phone
@1990: You said, “Bang… kok… get it?!”
Don’t forget about cock-pit.
@Adam
I see what you did there. *giggity*
Has humanity lost any sense of decency ? Pretty disgusting, it’s not about the sex, it’s about the trashing of being intimate. Sex is a gift, not to be displayed publicly that’s pornography.
@jose chompre.
Great comment and fully agree, a gift not to be displayed publically.
AF, in the days of BusinessFirst, whatever, CDG-ATL, ‘loo to the left of us in the first-section of the plane, they’re standing in the aisle around it, older and younger, curtain to the next section drawn, can’t describe a ‘sheepish’ look, but know it when I see it; look around again, they’ve disappeared. And then emerge. As we’re landing an announcement: “Please stay in your seat, there is a matter authorities must board and deal with.” Alas, they were frog-marched off, handcuffed. Thought of the ancient country music song: “Looking for love in all the wrong places …” Of course, might have just been they were using the ‘loo in First ‘stead of Coach …
Puts a whole new meaning on the word cockpit.
JetBlue from JFK to CUN. Still friends with that person many years later. haha
Did they have autopilots in World War I?