Category Archives: Crazy Passengers

Drunk Passenger Fights Crew When She’s Refused A Drink

Posted by on March 29, 2012 No comments

After flight attendants refused to serve alcohol to an already inebriated passenger on a US Airways flight Tuesday from Charlotte to Ft. Myers, the passenger attacked crew members and had to be physically tethered to her seat.

She apparently “kicked, spit on and cursed at” crew members and was arrested and charged with battery and interfering with the operation of an aircraft when the plane landed in Ft. Myers.

The moral of the story, of course, is to bring your own alcohol on a plane, as who knows if the flight attendants will refuse to serve you.

Southwest Passenger Arrested After Painting Nails on Flight

Posted by on March 8, 2012 2 comments

My family knows that I basically have one rule in my life: no one can paint their nails in my vicinity. I’m serious. I’d rather sit in a middle seat for 18 hours on a charter flight filled entirely with tuna fish sandwiches. (Why would tuna fish sandwiches be chartering a flight? Good question. I’m not really sure.)

Anyway, a passenger on a Southwest flight from Los Angeles to Houston thought that for some reason it would be acceptable to inflict that smell on the other 150 people on the plane. Thankfully for those other people on the plane, the flight attendants asked the woman to stop. She agreed.

But then she decided that she really only had a couple of nails left to paint, and she really, really, really wanted to get them finished, so this person, obviously the most selfish person in the universe, headed to the bathroom to finish painting her nails in there, since no one would notice that smell trapped in that tiny cubicle.

A flight attendant confronted her when she exited the now-very-stinky bathroom, an argument ensued, and the passenger apparently spoke in a not particularly nice manner at the flight attendant. When the plane landed in Houston, police arrested her.

Charges were eventually dropped, but only after spending 10 hours in jail, which was clearly not long enough.

Yes, a Passenger Is Suing Continental Because There Was Turbulence on Her Flight

Posted by on October 12, 2011 1 comment

Back in 2009, Colleen O’Neal took a Continental Airlines flight (operated by Colgan Air) from College Station, Texas, to Houston. The flight encountered some pretty severe turbulence due to thunderstorms and tornadoes in the area, causing the quick hop to take about two hours as the plane maneuvered around the scattered storms.

For this, Ms. O’Neal is now suing Continental Airlines (as well as United Airlines and Colgan Air) because she claims she has post-traumatic stress disorder from the flight.

(pause)

Yes, she said she has post-traumatic stress disorder from the flight. How so? The suit notes that the plane “fell repeatedly, and felt as if it had lost power and was falling out of the sky.” Felt as if it had lost power? Falling out of the sky? Oy.

Anyhoo, she’s claiming loss of income because she was hoping to go to work for FEMA, but now she can’t fly. Obviously, she’ll collect millions.

Actress Kicked Off Southwest Flight for Kissing Girlfriend (Or Something Like That. Maybe)

Posted by on September 27, 2011 No comments

Is Southwest the only airline that kicks people off its flights?

Actress Leisha Hailey, who stars in the L Word, was kicked off a Southwest Airlines flight because either she was kissing her girlfriend in a manner not appropriate in a public setting or because Southwest hates lesbians.

You make the call.

Woman Calls in Bomb Threat so Family Won’t Fly on 9/11

Posted by on September 14, 2011 No comments

File under genius: A New York woman phoned in not one, but two bomb threats on September 10th regarding a Southwest Airlines flight from Tucson to Albuquerque because she did not want her mother and brother flying on September 11th.

The plane was searched with dogs, but departed only 15 minutes late. Police arrested the woman in her home.

Flight Returns to Moscow After Drunk Passenger Starts Dancing

Posted by on August 29, 2011 No comments

A BMI flight from Moscow to London was returned to Domodedevo Airport on Friday after a passenger got drunk (on a 7am flight, mind you) started pulling eyeglasses off the faces of some passengers and, in the straw that broke the camel’s back apparently, began performing some sort of erotic dance on the plane. The crew decided she was a threat and turned the plane around, landing 90 minutes after departure back in Moscow. She is being held for examination in a hospital, though cabin crew said she was likely just drunk.

Yet Another Peeing on Plane Story: Gerard Depardieu Edition

Posted by on August 17, 2011 2 comments

Back when I was in high school I took French and I seem to remember that every single French movie we ever watched had Gerard Depardieu in it. I say that to say this: Mr. Depardieu was caught urinating on a CityJet flight from Paris to Dublin on Tuesday.

Unlike me, who urinated on a plane this week, Mr. Depardieu did it in the aisle of the plane, not in the bathroom, which is where I (and every other passenger on a plane this week) decided to do it. The actor was apparently drunk.

Drunk JetBlue Passenger: “I Did Not Realize I Was Pissing on Her Leg”

Posted by on August 12, 2011 1 comment

An 18-year old man, drunk from downing 8 alcoholic beverages on a JetBlue flight from JFK to Portland, Oregon, was arrested after he urinated on an 11 year old girl on the plane.

The man says that he was so drunk that he didn’t realize that he wasn’t in the bathroom when he decided to urinate on the young passenger. Incredibly, the girl’s father did not beat the living crap out of the guy, though he apparently had to be restrained. Which is understandable.

The drunk passenger was moved to the back of the plane for the remainder of the flight and was arrested and charged with indecent exposure when they landed.

As if that wasn’t enough, another passenger complained of heart trouble shortly before landing, then vomited. Sounds like quite a trip.

Woman Sues JetBlue After Being Kicked Off Plane for Not Wearing Underwear (Except She Was Wearing Underwear)…No That Doesn’t Make Sense

Posted by on July 22, 2011 No comments

A woman is suing JetBlue because she was removed from a July 2010 flight for supposedly not wearing any underwear. Except she was wearing underwear. And that’s the odd part of this whole thing.

Malinda Knowles claims that a supervisor approached her after she sat down on the flight from LaGuardia to Ft. Lauderdale and placed a walkie-talkie between her legs, then asked to see if she was wearing underwear (perhaps thinking that she was just wearing a shirt and no shorts). Knowles said she was humiliated by this, adding “It was vulgar. It was macho.” Macho indeed.

The “former fashion model” says she was then taken to a hanger where she was asked to show her shorts, then returned to the plane. She was then told that the pilot would not fly with her on board. (Note: I work for a clothing company and, not that this has any bearing on this story, I wanted to note that I cannot imagine what kind of fashion this woman modeled based on the pictures in the article.) I don’t know why the pilot would not let her fly, as JetBlue did not respond to the allegations.

Knowles said, “”It was really crazy,” she said. “I’ve never had a corporate employee ask me about my underwear.” Apparently she has had non-corporate employees ask her repeatedly. Perhaps they were from a distant sales office. Or temp workers. But no corporate employee has ever asked that.

Knowles summed up the incident thusly: “”I really feel like the guy just wanted to demean me in some way,” she said. “Maybe he thought I was cute.” Yes, perhaps this was all a way for the guy to get a date with her.

I would say there is approximately a 0% chance (or, as we used to say in math class, a limit as x approaches 0 chance) that this is how this whole thing went down. But amusing nonetheless.

Piss Drunk Passenger Pisses Drunk on Passenger

Posted by on July 5, 2011 2 comments

A drunk man traveling on an 11-hour Jetstar flight from Auckland to Singapore decided to urinate in the aisle of the plane about halfway through the trip, spraying his effluvium on a passenger’s leg and a woman’s scarf.

I think this passenger summed it up: “I hear this sound of running water and then I hear a guy going ‘No, no, no, what the hell is wrong with you?’”

Strangely enough, the airline let him off with a warning and did not call the police when they arrived in Singapore.

The passengers on the receiving end of the shower were even more upset, as they claim that the airline did little to help them, while staff members laughed about the incident for 20 minutes before offering any assistance.

This editorial suggests that this is just one in a long line of poor customer service stories from the lowfare arm of Qantas.