Worst Flight Nightmares

The nightmares that I've had on planes are from the ars8oles sat directly in front or behind my seat rather than the flights themselves.
I'm nearly 6'5 or was when somewhat younger and have lost an inch or so in more places than one over the years.

People in front of me forever adjusting their seat forward and back constantly forcing me to sit sideways or my knees are embedded
in the back of their seat.
These same people must also be very proud of their hands as they are often on full show for me to admire as they reach over their heads
with their arms and rest their hands on their headrest. I know that a good sneeze or a cough and a golly would have them sorted but as
my wife has noticed my anger, I have to refrain the urge.

The lard ars8es sat behind that are unable to use the armrests for whatever reason and instead use my headrest to bring themselves to their feet only add
to my frustration and brings me to the verge of boiling point.

Lightning, sudden drop of altitude, turbulence pffft
Passengers = Nightmare.
 
Two aborted landings at Aberdeen when the pilot announced that visibility had dropped below three foot. I was sat near the front on one of these small twin prop things out of Teesside and the cabin door to the pilot looked like an 70's shower curtain that had been left open. I could see him wrestling on both occasions to get us skyward and dials spinning like mad.

He aborted the flight and took us to Edinburgh to land.

I've never been a good flyer since.

The other time was on a flight to Cuba from Manchester and a guy near us kept on farting for the full 10hrs or so.
 
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Teesside87 said:
Did you not watch the one where the japanese pilot lost millions on the stock market, so locked his co-pilot out of the cockpit and nosedived the plane into a river? You better pray your pilot isnt having any financial problems next time you fly
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I mean.. there’s other ways to do it!
 
I've been fortunate to have travelled quite a bit over the years, yet my nightmare flight was an Air Kilroe flight from Manchester to Teesside in the mid 90's. About 10 people on board (full) and I had a front seat looking directly into the cockpit. Half way home over the Pennines I guess, it went pitch black outside (It was still daylight) and the plane started to rock and roll big style. Massive loud banging on the fuselage, I was in a total cold sweat and thought my end had arrived. I said to one of the pilots, 'Excuse me, but what the fxxk is that noise'. Nothing to worry about sir, that's ice breaking off the propellers and hitting the fuselage.
We landed at Teeside at the second attempt. I have flown since, but not on such a small plane.
 
I remember being told by an engineer that the safety factors of the components that make up the plane are so low that it would make you really think about getting on one again. Which makes sense, as if the safety factors were high, the things would never get off the floor.

A bit of trivia as well. The back of the plane is statistically the safest place to survive a plane crash. Front = obvious impact, middle = over the fuselage, back = guaranteed safety ;).
 
About 20 mins into the flight the pilot announced a crack had appeared in the windscreen, we would reduce height and land at another airport nearby.
On the ground we were told it would take 1-2 days to fly a replacement screen and techs to fit it.
So we were all put into a hotel.
It was absolute hell hanging around on the beach for 2 days in Barbados.
 
A flight from Xian to Xining on a 1950s Russian twin prop aircraft. Delayed from 10am to 8.30pm due to "engine problems"! On getting on, the other three passengers emptied their cases to cover themselves in their clothes. No heating at -20C outside temperature when we left and colder when we arrived. The windows weren't sealed so a continual gale blew through the aircraft. It really struggled to get the elevation to get over the Tibetan plateau. Glad when we arrived and more pleased to have a 'modern' 1960s Illyushin to get back to Shenyang a month later. As the 'shuttle bus' arrived in the city, there was a huge firework factory explosion. We were probably 5-10 miles away but felt the blast. No reports in the newspapers in the following week . . .
 
Two that I can think of, the first ruined flying for me, well landing anyway. I'm a bit nervous taking off and when in the air, but not too bad, but a sweaty mess when we come into land.

1) On the approach to the runway on Crete, getting lower and lower and still seeing water, then all of a sudden the runway appeared, a big gust of wind hit the plane and as we landed we bounced side to side off each wheel which felt like about 10 times, absolutely crapped myself. We eventually slowed up and stopped.

2) On the way back from Cyprus on a half empty Monarch flight, was really weird to see, we all had our pick of rows so could have a lay down. About halfway home the cabin began to fill with smoke and you could see the panicked look on peoples faces, and the stewards/esses.... Then the captain piped up with "Hello everyone, you may notice a little smoke and a smell of burning in the cabin, it's nothing to worry about, it just seems we were struck by lightning"

:poop::poop::poop::poop::poop::poop::poop:😱
 
Coming back from Malaga into Newcastle bit of turbulence on route but nothing out of the ordinary. As we attempted to land we got to literally about 3 feet of the ground and the pilot decided to abort the landing and pulled the nose up dramatically so our ascent seemed like almost vertical. Obviously it wasn't vertical but very severe, got to a reasonable height and began circling and the pilot calmly announced "well that wasn't a very good attempt at landing was it, let's try again shall we."
Second attempt landed ok to huge cheers and applause, apparently it was a very inexperienced pilot and he had positioned the plane wrong and we could have ran out of runway if he had landed the first time. Thats what we were told anyway.
Absolutely terrifying experience.
 
I normally fly dozens of times a year, don’t have a problem with it. Had a few white knuckle moments, but I trust the professionals.

Landed at leads in a Gale and was sideways tight up to touch down when he flicked it straight. Fire engines and ambulances on standby at the runway side. They closed the airport after that.

A particularly bouncy decent into Manchester when he aborted literally at the last minute, came on the tannoy and said “sorry about that we’ll have another go”. Which I was fine with, but thought they should send the drinks trolley round in between as a precaution.

Belting down the (quite short Cat B) runway in Lanzarote to take off when there was a loud bang and a very sharp application of brakes. Followed by 24 hours of hanging around for the spare part 🙄

With most of these things you don’t have time to anticipate, so it’s over before you know it.
 
asredastheycome said:
Helicopter everytime I went offshore. Horrible things.
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I had a visit to see my father in law one year on the rig off Morcambe bay, the helicopter flight was class tbh, loved it.

A week later that same helicopter went into the sea killing all on board. Thankfully My FiL was on shift and it wasn't his turn to fly. He lost some good pals though.

:oops::cry:
 
i had an easyjet pilot literally nose dive for about 2 minutes on the way back from benidorm on my stag do. everyone was holding onto something. was ridiculous.

flew around a hurricane on the way back from mexico. even the flight attendants were told to take their seats. we were sat next to a pilot hitching a lift who was really calm about it!

flying moscow to uralsk Kazakhstan on a 737 with just 20 people on board was interesting too. was like a roller coaster the full way
 
The stag doo thing above just reminded me of another. We'd been to Spain on a stag, and when returning we were just about to land at Stansted when the pilot put engines on full and then headed straight back up into the sky. he said "We're just going to go round again and have another go at that"

A friend of the Stag who we'd just met was an RAF fighter pilot and just turned to us and said..... "reckon there was another plane on the runway then and we had to pull up as we'd have hit it if we'd landed"


:oops:
 
Not in the same league as the scary experiences here, but it was a bad flight for a different reason.

I was flying home from Nepal via Bangladesh to London. The first leg of the flight was fine, but when we got to Dhaka we found that there was an Indian air-traffic control strike and all flights were grounded.

That wasn't the end of the world, except that I had a ticket for Boro v Chesterfield in the FA cup semi-final. After a 36 hour delay, I made it back to London too late to get to Manchester. To add insult to injury I lived very near to Highbury at the time where the other semi-final was being played - and heard the roar as a Chelsea goal went in.
 
Working in W. Africa...crew change and flew to London then a pal and I used to get on the morning buisness flight to Teesside..This one time on landing at Teesside, the speed and bouncing,crashing and shuddering the pilot landed the plane at brought a collective " fooooooooooking hell" from the entire passenger cabin...I was convinced we were gonna tip over but we were all shaken up. Never before or since had a landing like that one
2 weeks late my mate phoned me and said the pilot that flew us up that morning just crashed into the embankment at Birmingham airport........
 
1998, Yemenia flight coming in to land at Taizz airport in the mountains in Yemen. The runway was sandwiched between two mountains, so landing was, get over the mountain, then dive like a Stuka. Coming in, my head was below my feet and the engines were screaming. Genuinely though I was about to have a very bad day. After the first time though, kind of got used to it, and was funny seeing other first timers do the hail Mary's.
 
About 25 years ago I was chatting to a lass in a pub in London. One of us was moaning about being a bad flyer and was due to fly out on holiday the next day. One of the lasses got very upset which was a bit weird until we were told her Mam and two sisters had died in a plane crash, I think it was the really bad one in Tenerife in the 70’s.
 
redblood said:
The nightmares that I've had on planes are from the ars8oles sat directly in front or behind my seat rather than the flights themselves.
I'm nearly 6'5 or was when somewhat younger and have lost an inch or so in more places than one over the years.

People in front of me forever adjusting their seat forward and back constantly forcing me to sit sideways or my knees are embedded
in the back of their seat.
These same people must also be very proud of their hands as they are often on full show for me to admire as they reach over their heads
with their arms and rest their hands on their headrest. I know that a good sneeze or a cough and a golly would have them sorted but as
my wife has noticed my anger, I have to refrain the urge.

The lard ars8es sat behind that are unable to use the armrests for whatever reason and instead use my headrest to bring themselves to their feet only add
to my frustration and brings me to the verge of boiling point.

Lightning, sudden drop of altitude, turbulence pffft
Passengers = Nightmare.
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I'm "only" 6ft2 but totally agree with all of that, it's the people around that make it a nightmare. Coming back in a packed flight from Hong Kong once there was a very heavy woman in the seat in front a she was fidgeting around all over with the chair moving around all over. The bloke next to me said " she's going to knack that seat" and sure enough it gave way and went back further that maximum.
I asked to move seats only to be told there was none spare, so i was wedged in for the next 12 hours.
Also on short flights I always seem to get the one person who tries to put their seat back. I just push against the seat now and don't let them do it.
 
wilkos_perm said:
I'm "only" 6ft2 but totally agree with all of that, it's the people around that make it a nightmare. Coming back in a packed flight from Hong Kong once there was a very heavy woman in the seat in front a she was fidgeting around all over with the chair moving around all over. The bloke next to me said " she's going to knack that seat" and sure enough it gave way and went back further that maximum.
I asked to move seats only to be told there was none spare, so i was wedged in for the next 12 hours.
Also on short flights I always seem to get the one person who tries to put their seat back. I just push against the seat now and don't let them do it.
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Or you get someones rank and stinking trotters through the gap in the seats or above your head 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮
 
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