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It was something so bad that “with this kind of being a biohazard, I think we need to get this plane on the ground ASAP” according to a doctor on board. “The crew is vomiting and passengers all around are asking for masks…I talked to the crew and it sounds like it’s quite bad back there.”
An Air Canada flight from Casablanca to Montreal was cancelled on Friday after a flight attendant went berserk on a passenger who asked for a blanket. The cabin for flight 73 was cold, and video shows the purser responding aggressively.
The crewmember yells in French and in English, “You will behave or we will get off!” and “I don’t want no bullying against my crew.” She also yells at passengers who were recording her rant. The blanket offender asks for the captain, and the flight attendant refuses.
The lavatory of an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 MAX 9 from Honolulu to Anchorage flooded the aisle with up to 4 inches of water on Saturday, forcing the aircraft to turn around.
Flight attendants can be seen on video trying to sop up the water using paper towels. It was a losing battle.
Passengers aboard the flight recounted moments of chaos and fear as some individuals, not secured by seatbelts, were propelled through the cabin, causing injuries and damage to the aircraft’s interior. Passenger Brian Jokat described the plane suddenly dropping without warning, likening the experience to a nosedive at the top of a rollercoaster before stabilizing again. Passengers hit the ceiling, with one individual suffering broken ribs after falling back down, among other reported injuries involving broken bones and head trauma.
This is a pretty shocking altercation in first class. A woman in a bikini prances onto the plane. She must violate every airline appearance standard, but she’s been allowed to board. And she gets into a fight with the woman in the row behind her, because the scantily clad passenger appeared a little too sexy to that woman’s husband.
In fact, the wife threw a blanket on the passenger in the bikini – something that woman didn’t take kindly to.
Two Ryanair flights operating the same route both had to divert because of onboard fights within the past week.
The longest American Airlines flight became a biohazard disaster on Monday when lavatories began overflowing with sewage, pouring out into the cabin.
American Airlines flight 293 from Delhi to New York JFK kept flying this way for “10+ hours” of the 17-hour flight after “4 lavatories flooded with sewage.” It appears that crew used Casper blankets to cover up the mess in the aisle. Video shows the refugee camp that the cabin had become, and a photo shows a lavatory sink filled with poo water.
Four Delta Air Lines passengers were removed from a flight in Minneapolis on January 8 because a flight attendant determined it was suspicious that they were Palestinian Americans. They were taken off of the plane on arrival and questioned for an hour before being released. Two of the passengers missed their connecting flights. Apparently they were guilty of “speaking in Arabic and English and wearing Palestine necklaces.”
A woman had her hair draped over her seat back, so that it covered the entertainment screen behind her. The man’s daughter, seated behind her, couldn’t watch her inflight TV. The dad got creepy on board the flight home from Mexico to put the female passenger in her place, and I’m trying to decide whether it was a genius move or crossed a line.
On Tuesday a Delta Air Lines passenger was arrested in Austin “for allegedly making a terroristic threat.”
The man was onboard a flight headed for Atlanta. A flight attendant “asked him to move his briefcase,” and she reported to the captain that he said the briefcase might contain one of three things: “money, a bomb or a gun.”
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