Idiots on a plane

enigmatical · 05-06-2013 04:47PM

They're very lucky they weren't flying Iceland Air !

They'd have been straight out with the duck tape and the cable ties.

http://edition.cnn.com/2013/01/04/travel/iceland-disruptive-passenger

Super-Rush · 05-06-2013 04:57PM

It was Mythbusters who supposedly busted the myth about mobile phones causing interference to planes. However they just showed phones ringing and not being answered, thats where i reckon phones would cause problems.

Also why do terrorists bother trying to smuggle bombs on board planes when they could cause havoc by just using their phones.

branie · 05-06-2013 05:09PM

Valetta wrote: »

I saw someone buy a sandwich on a Ryanair flight once.

Their sandwiches aren't that bad

StickyIcky · 05-06-2013 05:15PM

Wanderer2010 wrote: »

Why do people NEED to sit next to each other for the flight? I have lost count of the amount of times where people who are getting ready for a flight are bugging the flight crew with requests like "My husband and I arent sitting together, can you please check for spare seats so we can sit next to each other?" or "My wife and I are not together, can we take your seat so we can be next to each other?". I refused this request the last time because I would have been crammed next to 2 very heavy people and would have had no comfort for the flight, why should I give up my seat because of poor planning from other people?

Its only a few hours ffs, why people have to be with each other 24/7 is beyond me. If you cant sit next to each other just suck it up and deal with it. :rolleyes:

I would just say if I can sit next to a thin person ok fine but I ain't sitting beside anyone who takes up part of my space.

For short hauls it's ok but long hauls it's nice to sleep beside someone you know

Wanderer2010 · 05-06-2013 05:34PM

StickyIcky wrote: »

I would just say if I can sit next to a thin person ok fine but I ain't sitting beside anyone who takes up part of my space.

For short hauls it's ok but long hauls it's nice to sleep beside someone you know

But why though, you are asleep, it doesnt matter who is next to you does it? If sitting next to your significant other/friend etc is so important to people then they should make the effort to book these seats in advance. If you are getting a cheap flight but to compromise you cant sit next to each other, its just rude to pester the staff to put you together when they have better things to be doing. Its a few hours not a few weeks.

XxMCRxBabyxX · 05-06-2013 06:13PM

Wanderer2010 wrote: »

But why though, you are asleep, it doesnt matter who is next to you does it? If sitting next to your significant other/friend etc is so important to people then they should make the effort to book these seats in advance. If you are getting a cheap flight but to compromise you cant sit next to each other, its just rude to pester the staff to put you together when they have better things to be doing. Its a few hours not a few weeks.

While I agree that it's rude and annoying to pester over it, you can't blame people for wanting to sit with the people that they know. It's the same for anything that you have seats for: the cinema, a show, a waiting room, the pub, a party, etc. You feel more comfortable being around those that you know and are familiar with. No one likes being around strangers if they can help it.

looking_around · 05-06-2013 06:32PM

mind you, I've yet to turn my phone off on a plane.....still haven't been in a crash >.>

skimpydoo · 05-06-2013 06:42PM

Princess Zelda wrote: »

Time to unleash my plane story.

Flight to Alicante there was a crowd on the back of the plane who were drinking throughout the flight.

Guy near the top of the plane collapsed and whilst all the air stewardesses were attending to him, the crowd near the back of the plane started to steal the drink out of their trollies.

Then when the plane was descending they all refused to sit despite being requested to a few times.

Crowd of ignorant feckers. The one upside is the Spanish police arrested a few when they were leaving the plane and they don't take any crap. Well that, and they are probably all barred from that airline for life.

Aer Lingus or Ryan Air?.

StickyIcky · 05-06-2013 06:44PM

XxMCRxBabyxX wrote: »

While I agree that it's rude and annoying to pester over it, you can't blame people for wanting to sit with the people that they know. It's the same for anything that you have seats for: the cinema, a show, a waiting room, the pub, a party, etc. You feel more comfortable being around those that you know and are familiar with. No one likes being around strangers if they can help it.

Exactly

Princess Zelda · 05-06-2013 06:53PM

skimpydoo wrote: »

Aer Lingus or Ryan Air?.

Ryanair. It was the first time we went with one of the later flights (normally fly mornings).

NuckingFacker · 05-06-2013 06:56PM

keith16 wrote: »

Ah but they do it for a reason. People need to hear the safety briefing. Can't do that if you headphones on or are distracted in any other way.

Take off and landing are also the potentially most dangerous times on a flight so you don't want 50 people looking around confused because they didn't hear what was going on. Or not knowing what the first thing they need to do is because they weren't listening.

Also, if phones etc. are put away, they have less chance of becoming missiles! But people aren't told any of that cos it's terrifying!

Hear it? I can repeat it word for word at this stage, and here's the news, when the fecker bursts into flames and the wheel falls off as it hits the runway, top o the list of "things that cross your mind" is not going to be how to inflate your lifejacket, where the whistle is and how to crawl in an orderly fashion along the designated lines.

"Any holes a goal and it's every man for himself" is more like it. The destignated lines on the floor are going to be crowded with all the other feckers you got it hard to get past on the way in, without the fire/panic/numpties, most people cant figure out how to queue to pay for ice-creams let alone an exit with fire at their backs, and if the fecker has hit water, it's in several pieces/sinking rapidly, and your "seat" has vanished under dirty water, your lifejacket with it. That's assuming that up still is up and down still is down, and your head hasn't been torn off.

FearDark · 05-06-2013 07:02PM

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Tzar Chasm · 05-06-2013 07:06PM

Super-Rush wrote: »

It was Mythbusters who supposedly busted the myth about mobile phones causing interference to planes. However they just showed phones ringing and not being answered, thats where i reckon phones would cause problems.

Also why do terrorists bother trying to smuggle bombs on board planes when they could cause havoc by just using their phones.

people seem to have seen a different episode of mythbusters to me, because the way I remember that episode is that phones operating at 800 -900 mhz, (american frequencies) can distupt navigational equipment.

european phones operating at 1800mhz didn't seem to effect instruments, but this flight was in america so there were legitimate concerns about phones.

Locker10a · 05-06-2013 08:36PM

NuckingFacker wrote: »

Hear it? I can repeat it word for word at this stage, and here's the news, when the fecker bursts into flames and the wheel falls off as it hits the runway, top o the list of "things that cross your mind" is not going to be how to inflate your lifejacket, where the whistle is and how to crawl in an orderly fashion along the designated lines.

"Any holes a goal and it's every man for himself" is more like it. The destignated lines on the floor are going to be crowded with all the other feckers you got it hard to get past on the way in, without the fire/panic/numpties, most people cant figure out how to queue to pay for ice-creams let alone an exit with fire at their backs, and if the fecker has hit water, it's in several pieces/sinking rapidly, and your "seat" has vanished under dirty water, your lifejacket with it. That's assuming that up still is up and down still is down, and your head hasn't been torn off.

Depending on the nature of the incident/accident ! Knowing your nearest emergency exit and following the floor path lighting could save your life in certain circumstances !! In a situation where the hull is destroyed then yes sure hop through the hole but this type of emergency is less common

Stinicker · 05-06-2013 09:50PM

Wanderer2010 wrote: »

Why do people NEED to sit next to each other for the flight? I have lost count of the amount of times where people who are getting ready for a flight are bugging the flight crew with requests like "My husband and I arent sitting together, can you please check for spare seats so we can sit next to each other?" or "My wife and I are not together, can we take your seat so we can be next to each other?". I refused this request the last time because I would have been crammed next to 2 very heavy people and would have had no comfort for the flight, why should I give up my seat because of poor planning from other people?

Its only a few hours ffs, why people have to be with each other 24/7 is beyond me. If you cant sit next to each other just suck it up and deal with it. :rolleyes:

Happens to me very regularly as I am usually flying by myself, what really annoys me is the window seat stealer.

I always ask for a window seat because a). I like to look out the window and b) it saves me having to get up for people who must go to the toilet like every 30mins. I can go forever without needing to pee and I once flew 12 hours from London to Singapore without peeing once, the minute I got off the plane it was like a flood alarm in my head went off and in the words of Mrs. Doubtfire, I pissed like a racehorse. :pac:

Last time I flew economy I found some other lemming in my preassigned window, asked him to move and he refuse so I got the stewardess to shift him and she moved him down the back right next to a good noisy baby, I was delighted as it was good enough for the fecker. Like have the decency to ask me and I might consider it especially if I have flown the route before but to steal the window seat is plain rude.

Another time I was on Southwest flight from Vegas in the US and my flight had been cancelled so they had just merged us all onto the later flight and it was totally full, I had gotten on the plane early having paid their business select fare which is basically a fast track through security and free alcohol coupons.

Anyway this couple and their little girl came on the flight and there was no two seats together on the whole plane and the child was having to sit in across the aisle and two seats up from the mother whilst the father had to sit way up front. The little girl (maybe 10-11) was very afraid and as soon as she was seated on her own started crying and the ignoramus sitting next to me in the middle would not budge to accommodate the mother and child. I immediately interjected and said here seeming as you won't move you can have my window seat and I will swap with the little girl, you could see it was upsetting the child and her mum too as the plane was totally full and they were the last ones on.

The mother thanked me profusely and the father came down to me during the flight to thank me also and I gave him my southwest coupon for free alcohol and they thought I was some sort of saint! I was going to miss nothing on the short flight and it costs nothing to be nice and I find that doing these gestures of kindness will repay yourself in future karma etc. The airstewardess thanked me also and having flown as much as I have there is practically nothing I have not seen.

cruais · 05-06-2013 11:41PM

On a funny note about idiots on planes, I just read a funny tweet on overheard in Dublin.

Flight to uk. Impatient Indian man in his 70's (with finger in the air) to aerlingus hostess: "I've been fingering you for the last 5 minutes!"

Locker10a · 06-06-2013 08:57PM

Some of the things mentioned on this are mentioned in this article! Including mobile phones on planes!
http://www.perthnow.com.au/travel/travel-news/the-plane-truth-about-flying-revealed/story-fnho5w8j-1226649790296

mattjack · 06-06-2013 09:24PM

Can I tell my flight story ?

Years ago on a flight to Turkey , a fuckwit asked a hostess could he have a cigarette , she politely said no ... a couple of minutes later the genius starts burning the ends of his hair......

When we landed three police officers dragged him off the plane , one of them looked like Andre the Giant in a sweat stained shirt about four sizes to small for him.

Whenever I see that film "Midnight Express" or hear that comment "ever been in a
Turkish prison ? " , I think of that poor clown.

Gene Parmesan · 06-06-2013 10:35PM

i saw a fist fight break out on two separate occasions between the same two guys on a plane to Cyprus a few years ago

both were drinking and one insulted the others ability to 'pull'

arrested off the plane... think it made the tabloids here too

keith16 · 07-06-2013 09:01AM

NuckingFacker wrote: »

Hear it? I can repeat it word for word at this stage, and here's the news, when the fecker bursts into flames and the wheel falls off as it hits the runway, top o the list of "things that cross your mind" is not going to be how to inflate your lifejacket, where the whistle is and how to crawl in an orderly fashion along the designated lines.

"Any holes a goal and it's every man for himself" is more like it. The destignated lines on the floor are going to be crowded with all the other feckers you got it hard to get past on the way in, without the fire/panic/numpties, most people cant figure out how to queue to pay for ice-creams let alone an exit with fire at their backs, and if the fecker has hit water, it's in several pieces/sinking rapidly, and your "seat" has vanished under dirty water, your lifejacket with it. That's assuming that up still is up and down still is down, and your head hasn't been torn off.

I don't buy this, there have been several crash landings in recent years with everyone surviving and exiting in an orderly fashion. People getting their shit together slows this process down.

stateofflux · 07-06-2013 09:05AM

mattjack wrote: »

Can I tell my flight story ?

Years ago on a flight to Turkey , a fuckwit asked a hostess could he have a cigarette , she politely said no ... a couple of minutes later the genius starts burning the ends of his hair......

When we landed three police officers dragged him off the plane , one of them looked like Andre the Giant in a sweat stained shirt about four sizes to small for him.

Whenever I see that film "Midnight Express" or hear that comment "ever been in a
Turkish prison ? " , I think of that poor clown.

he only had to pay a fine of '2 american dollars'

Aglomerado · 07-06-2013 09:26AM

enigmatical wrote: »

They're very lucky they weren't flying Iceland Air !

They'd have been straight out with the duck tape and the cable ties.

http://edition.cnn.com/2013/01/04/travel/iceland-disruptive-passenger

"You have used one inch of sticky tape. God bless you."

I Heart Internet · 07-06-2013 11:59AM

I've been on a plane where I've seen the pilot get his head stuck in the closing cabin door as the cabin crew closed it.

I sh1t you not.

That was the final scene at the end of an awful delay flying out of the UK a few years ago. Having put down a couple of hours of calming angry, delayed passengers (you know it's bad when the pilot comes out to apologise in person), he just tried to laugh it off and get on with things....must have hurt though.

Idiots on a plane

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