7 of the strangest things to ever happen on a flight

Ram Vishwanathan from Mumbai told Quora about a recent incident on domestic flight in India.

“An Air India pilot who normally piloted the ‘Mumbai – Delhi via Jodhpur’ flight (1200 hours) was asked to pilot another flight ‘Mumbai – Delhi direct’ (1400 hours).

She refused.. and the 1400 Mumbai – Delhi flight was left was left stranded without a pilot and was subsequently delayed by over an hour”

Why?

“The pilot had ordered Kachoris from a restaurant in Jodhpur and didn’t want to catch another flight.”

This one is not only strange, but a little scary.

Daniel Deutsch shared this picture and said:

“On January 4th, 2013, a passenger drank two bottles of duty-free alcohol he picked up at the airport in Iceland. He apparently then tried to grope two women sitting next to him, along with spitting on random passengers. ”

“When he became unruly, (i.e. trying to choke the woman next to him and screaming the plane was going to crash), fellow passengers subdued him and tie him up for the rest of the flight. He was escorted off the flight by police when it landed.”

It was later revealed that man was a 46-year-old Icelandic civil engineer.

Here’s one you don’t hear everyday…

“I was sitting near the rear of business class in an aisle seat, just forward of the loo,” explains Tim Hyland.

“About two hours into the flight, after dinner was served and the lights were dimmed, I had settled in to watch a movie. Out of nowhere, some guy bumped hard into my seat back, and then landed square in my lap. Stark naked. Not even his socks.

“A very embarrassed flight attendant helped the confused man onto his feet and back into the loo where he had disrobed, and then got him dressed. (Like putting clothes on a toddler, she told me.)”

The gentleman was apparently nervous about flying and combined “pills to calm his nerves” with alcohol, which lead to his confused state.

We’ve all been there… actually, no.

We haven’t.

She was certainly… nuts (sorry).

“The infamous Nut Rage Incident took place on Korean Air,” Julie Saja.

“On a Korean Air flight from JFK, one of the first class passengers, which also happened to be one of the airline’s executives, got into an altrecation with the attendant and ordered the taxiing plane back to the gate.”

“The reason – She recieved the welcome snacks (peanuts) in a bag, and she had expected them to be served in a plate/bowl, for first class passengers.”

“Her behavior caused major outrage in her country and she later resigned from her position.”

Matt Burrough, a student pilot himself, shared a story of some very strange acting flight attendants.

“On a single flight, one flight attendant passed out copies of her resume, another gave passengers anything they wanted (blankets, extra food/drink), and a third repeatedly slammed an overhead bin before spending part of the flight crying in the back of the plane.”

The reason?

It was one of the airlines last flights.

This one is just gross…

“Can’t get any stranger/weirder than this. And on a flight I was on in 2015!”, says Anonymous.

“My British Airways flight to Dubai forced to return to Heathrow Airport after ‘smelly poo in the toilet’ became unbearable for the passengers.”

“The Captain informed us the smell was from ‘liquid faecal excrement. The plane’s crew had examined the problem, but were unable to fix it.”

“Our plane returned to London about 30 to 40 minutes after take-off.”

“We were put up in hotel rooms and offered food vouchers.”

This one was shared by Ashwin Nalwade who took the information from Weather.com

“Many travelers will never get on a flight without their ear plugs, but on an American Airlines flight from Los Angeles to New York last year, ear plugs should have been mandatory. An unruly passenger disrupted the flight when she refused to stop belting the Whitney Houston song ‘I Always Love You’ forcing the pilot to make an emergency landing at Kansas City International Airport, according to KCTV5 News.”

Yep, must remember to pack those ear phones!