Your worst plane ride.

Post the WORST ever plane ride you've had, I'll start it off.

The worst plane ride I ever had was when I was flying back from Tennessee to California. There was a family infront of me with a little girl, she was probably 3 years old. Behind me was a little boy, 6 or 7, who kept kicking my chair because he was mad that his sister wouldn't let him sit in "his" seat.

The little girl infront of me was playing with the air conditioner. She turned it up to, like, max and when she put her hand over it, the pressure was so high that when it hit her hand and the air tried to escape it mad the loudest screeching noise. She did that for 2 hours straight and was greatly amused and I was getting a major headache.

That was my worst plane ride.

Well, mine doesn't follow the standard, but my worst plane ride was my 2nd flight lesson back in 1999.

I wasn't yet comfortable with the 2-feet braking, and the instructor was too impatient to let me practice braking on the tarmac before taking off. Well... this was my first time landing the plane. The air was a bit choppy that day so he said to go ahead and land without flaps so it's a bit smoother. Landing without flaps requires an airspeed of 80mph instead of the standard 60-65. Well, the touchdown was picture-perfect. I inadvertently applied the brakes a little unevenly and the next thing I knew, the plane was skidding sideways across the runway at 80mph. The instructor had to correct it or we wouldn't skidded off into the grass. Luckily the Piper Arrow I was flying has a nice wide gear stance otherwise we could've flipped over.

I was told later by a number of RL pilots that I should get a new instructor immediately. I haven't seen or talked to that guy since.

I can't remember the details because I have blocked them out, but it resulted in a free plane t ticket. It was a few years ago, I remember parts of it.



We were in the terminal and they anounced there was a problem and they would be bringing snacks. All of a sudden drinks snacks and a cart of books rolled up to keep us busy. Then they said that a seat was broken, and duck tape ....yes....duck tape, was fixing it. Then they said something was wrong with a piece of the plane near a window . Then we were getting a new plane. It was really awful. We waitted a LONG time.

Mine that was the worst was bad because I had a few bad things happen. This was a while ago when I was a little kid. I was flying from somewhere in northern Florida down to Orlando with my family. We were flying through a heavy storm in a propeller plane and it was incredibly turbulent. My little brother sitting next to me was throwing up from it and threw up on me a few times. These other little kids in front of me where crying and screaming and it drove me insane. I watched flight attendants lose their balance and fall down. It was the endless flight from hell.

My worst flight was coming back from Jamaica. It was all clear when we took off, but very soon we flew into a hurricane as it was heading into Jamaica!

We must have hit a low pressure pocket because the plave started dropping rapidly. Must have dropped several hundred feet before BAM we stopped dropping and bounced up. I saw a flight attendant bounce up in the air as she was trying to check seatbelts and come back down hard. Drinks, pillows, blankets and peanuts all flew to the ceiling and rained down.

I was sitting at a window seat over the wings. I heard a horrible creaking sound and saw the wings bending up and down. Needless to say, turbulence was terrible. Everyone was screaming and praying and generally losing their minds. I saw a BIG biker/bodybuilder type guy on the other side of the plane crying like a baby!! It went on for another 15 minutes till the pilot flew the plane out.

I can do without that experiance again.

Actually my plane ride would have been pretty pleasant if it wasn't for the condition i was in. I was flying from Denver to some transfer flight in Wisconsin with barely the clothes on my back. I was wearing contacts but lacked the proper solution to store them in on my stay overnight in Denver, so i used eyedrop liquid. Bad mistake. I didn't fully realize it til i was in the air and the sun was shining unrelentlessly through the windows. I was like getting out of a swimming pool with too much treatment in it x10. I thought my eyes were going to explode. And then my ears wouldn't adjust to the pressure which combined to give me an undescribable 2 hour headache. Now i'm back to wearing glasses.

My worst flight EVER was one time in cardova. This guy i didnt know asked me to test his passenger seat. I wound up seeing the moon for the first time in SL I wont say who did this because i dont want to point fingers at NICK FAIRLIGHT.

As for RL.. never had a problem flying.

Worst plane ride absolute worst was from Boganville Island in New Guinea to Bamaga, Cape York Australia in the early 90's.

We were setting up communications towers for the local government when a spot of 'civil unrest' occured -- our beat up transport, and ancient 'black duck' caribou was hit several times by local dissidence on take off and leaked fuel all way to the mainland.. theres something about flying 50ft above the ocean for miles so you can 'put down gently' at any moment that kinda sucks. What sucks even more is when you're halfway home refueling and the most reliable thing you can find to patch holes are g clamps and duct tape.

Second worst flight ever - my older brother taking me for a flight in an F111 fighter bomber, determined to make me throw up because 'Diggers don't like flyin'

How bad could that have been? Ever read streetsigns from the cockpit of a jet? Its a little alarming.

(Digger -- Australian term of endearment for their soldiers, dating back to WW1 in Galipolli).

Siggy.

Worst plane flight ever? This spoiled little kid kept asking the attendant for seven-up. He had about 15 cans. Then he had to pee. Naturally, the bathrooms were closed. So, he made do with what he had.... his pants. Being the spoiled kid he was, the attendent HAD to clean the mess up... and I had to watch/smelll it. I got a headache from the urine. Then what did he do after it was all cleaned up? "MOMMY, GIVE ME A SEVEN UP."

On that note, I once saw a kid who went to her mother and said, "Mommy, give me a f***cking milkshake, b*tch." He got his milkshake. Arrrg, spoiled kids.

I'm not even a pilot (unless you count virtual flying ) and a red flag even went up for me there....good job ditching that dood.

What's with the little brat kids?

It's not *quite* as black and white as it sounds, but almost. This was at an international airport with a lot of commercial traffic -- airliners everywhere. The instructor didn't want to upset anyone or break any rules. However, there was plenty of empty tarmac where I'm positive ground control would've been fine with it. I have the feeling I was one of his first students. I also have the feeling he was rather uncomfortable around all the heavies.

On another note, try landing a little 2-seater plane right after a 737 and with another commercial jet right behind you. Wake turbulence from a 737 is bad enough, but ATC telling you to speed up to 130 on approach? hehe, that'll keep a newbie pilot on his/her toes. Great learning experience though.

My worst plane ride was from Amsterdam to Athens. I had just spent all night awake traveling across the Atlantic (I don't sleep well on planes), when I got seated in front of a lovely family with three boys between ages, I'd say, 4 and 10. The parents sat across and back one seat from them and enjoyed a leisurely 3 hour trip while their sons kicked our seats, screamed, bashed their hands on the traytable, and had a good ole time. When I mentioned for them to stop kicking my seats, the parents just looked at me dumbfounded. Maybe "stop" isn't a universal word, that is when I asked the flight attendant who spoke Dutch as well as English if he could do anything. He appeared to basically be in la la land, smiling the whole time without a care in the world. Instead the three guy flight attendants catered to these boys ever want and actually played a few games with them. I felt boxed in to enjoy the festivities because the guy in front of me decided to put his seat back as far as it would go. The plane didn't land quick enough for me. Next time I fly KLM out of Amsterdam I'm making a layover and partaking in whatever those flight attendants were because apparently they didn't have a care in the world.

My three worst flights:

1: Coulda been bad. Our plane was landing, when suddenly it aborted the landing and took off pull power. Passengers all around me were panicking. Didn't phase me tho, I figured there was still a plane on the runway. which turned out to be the reason for the abort.

2. Bad for the folks around me. 14 hour flight from Thailand to Hawaii. I had gas. BAD gas. I farted 14 hours non-stop, continously, and in volume. I was red the entire flight from embarrassment. For some reason the other passengers were green.

3. This one coulda been in the news if the pilot had been a couple seconds slower. I wasn't IN the plane. I was a security guard patrolling a parking lot in Tucson for the sears catalog. There is an AF base in Tucson with A-10 Warthogs. 2 Pilots were doing manuevers in their planes where they would do high speed curves. One of the pilots got way to close to the ground doing his curve and almost lost it. He was so close to me I could see individual nuts and bolts. I literally could have picked up a pebble and tossed it inderhand and hit the plane with it. If he hadn't regained control at the last second, he woulda plowed right into me, and then into the building where 4 or 500 people were taking phone calls. That was fun.