Weird/Disturbing things you've seen other passengers do on Flights

My usual flight routine consists of me panicing and telling my travelling partner "we are going to die ... we are going to die ... why are all these people so okay knowing that they are going to die ... can you hear that flaps retracting, they shouldnt be retracting we are going to die .... the engine sounds like its struggling we are going to die .... "


Im a joy to travel with.

I once saw someone order an inflight meal on a flight - they were obviously a seriously disturbed individual and the whole experience made me disgusted

Passenger ate an entire pack of pistachio nuts on the plane and put the empty shells everywhere.

When he was finished he picked up the shells and sucked them

flying once from London to Accra, i'd prebooked a nice isle seat with extra leg space, when i got onto plane it was like i had walked onto a game of musical chairs on a plane, no-one seemed to be interested in the seats they were allocated, a mother and 2 kids were sitting in my seat. in the end it must have taken 90 minutes for the air hostesses to get everyone sitting in designated seats.

as for internal flights in africa, on an 8 seater plane had this old man in traditional local clothes sit beside me, he spent his time talking on his mobile, praying with these beads and looking around panicked, i'd be lying if i didnt think he was a bomber.

Absolutely nothing wrong with watching a cricket DVD, in fact, cricket is a great sport. Neither weird nor disturbing. In fact, its worse that you think that you closed minded individual.

dilallio wrote: »

My colleague had to take a flight from Shannon to Miami around 1989.
It was an Aeroflot flight and there were only about 50 people on the flight. Everyone was in the front of the plane and there was a curtain segregating the front from the rest of the plane.

About an hour into the flight, he wanted to go to the loo, but all the toilets in the front were occupied and had queues so he asked the hostess if he could use the one at the back as her was desperate. She told him to use the one at the back but to be careful on the way.

He went by the curtain which was dividing the front from the back and halfway down he could see some movement in the dark cabin. When he got closer he could see that the floorboards were lifted and there were 2 mechanics working on the plane! They were speaking russian, but one was passing a large spanner to the guy who was working below.

He told me he spent 20 mins in the toilet trying to remember the rosary.

Sir, that's one funny post.

I was on a flight years ago to Turkey when a nutjob asked the hostess, could he smoke.Needless to say she said no and shortly afterwards he decided to burn the split ends off his hair.

When the plane landed three police officers, that looked like some of the characters out of Midnight Express dragged him off the plane.

All I wanted to say to him as he was marched off was ' Ever been in a Turkish prison ?'

I’ve been the weird one at times on planes. I’m 6ft 2”, long legs and I’ve got little or no space between my knees and the space in front of me. On the plane, hung-over to bits, drinking Guinness straight for two weeks me o'll bowels were not the best at all.

I settle down and I look up, a guy about 6ft 10” walking towards my seat, I’m like please keep on walking, of course, he launched himself into the seat in front of me and his weight made the seat flop back and whack my knee out of it, a bit painful but not too bad. The chap then puts his seat all the way back. With his weight and the recline he was in my face. I’m freaking out at this point, 9 hours of this fooker I could not handle, I will be done for air rage in about an hour.

Plane was 3/4 full, decided to call the attendant. I said, the gentleman in front of me, when he first sat down, the chair hit my left knee and I’m in incredible pain right now. She said do you need a Doctor or medical treatment? I said, don’t think so, however with the pain in my knee I don’t think I can sit here in this space for 9 hours, it hurts to much and just very uncomfortable, she says, wait a moment. Now my plan at this stage was to get 3 seats to myself, worked like a charm, she moved folk around and I had 3 seats to myself, result, happy camper so I was.

Flight takes off, 2 very hot American girls to my right and I lay down with my head to the left and go to sleep. A couple of hours later, I wake up as the food it being handed out, the two hot chicks are giving me the most disgusting looks, I’m like wtf is their problem? Air hostess comes by with the trolley and says, wow what is that smell down here? I can’t smell anything, the two chicks look towards me and say, yes we’ve been smelling it for 2 hours now. What was happening was, I was farting Guinness farts while I was asleep, my arse pointed in the direction of the two hot chicks and I burst out laughing when I realized they had to put up with my Guinness farting while I was sleeping. Now if anyone drinks the black stuff for one night, it will tear the arse out of you, but two weeks straight on the Guinness, well you could only imaging what the farts were like. Not my proudest moment but I could not stop laughing to myself about it.