What would you do & expect, what's the worst you have encountered ?

[richard_smith237]

In Finn Air Business Class drifting in out out of sleep with my 8 month old Son sleeping peacefully on my chest...

The flight attendant woke me and informed me that there is a Man 5 rows in front who is drunk, getting aggressive and potentially violent.

On that flight every scenario passed my mind of what I'd do in enclosed surroundings to protect my son from a drunk and violent passenger... Ultimately it would be for my Wife and I, with our son get out of our seats and move to the back of the plane. I handed my son to my Wife so at least I was free to put up some defence if something were to move too close to us.

Eventually the drunk man fell asleep, but I never relaxed for a second for the rest of the flight.

[smokie36]

Thanks to everyone who took time to give their story.

Interesting that few mentioned little about what they did about it ? what was the eventual outcome, seems most just sucked it up , took on the chin and moved on.

Accepted the circumstances/incident but actually did nothing about it.

This is an important point...under EU law travelling to and from Europe you are entitled to compensation for various things...not adverse weather conditions though...so its always worth checking.

The flyertalk forum is a good source of info for these issues I have found.

[kbelyeu]

I was on a direct flight from Rio de Janiero to Houston back 2009 and we hit clear air turbulence. I was sleeping and woke up briefly and remember looking up then BANG.. everything went dark, bodies flying all over the cabin. I distinctly remember seeing a guy fly through the air, bounce off the center console with enough force it made a hole in the console allowing the wiring and oxygen masks fall out before he landed on the opposite side of the aircraft in the aisle. There were about 25 missiles (bodies) due to not wearing seat belts causing very serious damage to the aircraft, themselves and other passengers.

It was a very eerie feeling seeing all the ambulances and fire trucks along the side of the Miami International airport while we landed and taxied in. They removed the injured using the food and beverage scissor lifts and had to send a new aircraft from Houston to pick the rest of us up... I will never forget this incident nor seat in a seat with my seatbelt unfastened. To this date.. I see the flight attendants come around looking for unfastened seat belts and I always chuckle a little and say no <deleted> way am I setting on a moving aircraft without my seatbelt fastened.

Kurt

[4evermaat]

I was on a direct flight from Rio de Janiero to Houston back 2009 and we hit clear air turbulence. I was sleeping and woke up briefly and remember looking up then BANG.. everything went dark, bodies flying all over the cabin. I distinctly remember seeing a guy fly through the air, bounce off the center console with enough force it made a hole in the console allowing the wiring and oxygen masks fall out before he landed on the opposite side of the aircraft in the aisle. There were about 25 missiles (bodies) due to not wearing seat belts causing very serious damage to the aircraft, themselves and other passengers.

It was a very eerie feeling seeing all the ambulances and fire trucks along the side of the Miami International airport while we landed and taxied in. They removed the injured using the food and beverage scissor lifts and had to send a new aircraft from Houston to pick the rest of us up... I will never forget this incident nor seat in a seat with my seatbelt unfastened. To this date.. I see the flight attendants come around looking for unfastened seat belts and I always chuckle a little and say no <deleted> way am I setting on a moving aircraft without my seatbelt fastened.

Kurt

Was there a news article that covered this incident? Sounds almost like a partial script for a movie

[kbelyeu]

I was on a direct flight from Rio de Janiero to Houston back 2009 and we hit clear air turbulence. I was sleeping and woke up briefly and remember looking up then BANG.. everything went dark, bodies flying all over the cabin. I distinctly remember seeing a guy fly through the air, bounce off the center console with enough force it made a hole in the console allowing the wiring and oxygen masks fall out before he landed on the opposite side of the aircraft in the aisle. There were about 25 missiles (bodies) due to not wearing seat belts causing very serious damage to the aircraft, themselves and other passengers.

It was a very eerie feeling seeing all the ambulances and fire trucks along the side of the Miami International airport while we landed and taxied in. They removed the injured using the food and beverage scissor lifts and had to send a new aircraft from Houston to pick the rest of us up... I will never forget this incident nor seat in a seat with my seatbelt unfastened. To this date.. I see the flight attendants come around looking for unfastened seat belts and I always chuckle a little and say no <deleted> way am I setting on a moving aircraft without my seatbelt fastened.

Kurt

Was there a news article that covered this incident? Sounds almost like a partial script for a movie

Lots of articles..

https://www.google.co.uk/search?client=opera&q=clear+air+turbulance+continental+rio+to+houston&sourceid=opera&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8#q=clear+air+turbulence+continental+rio+to+houston

Kurt

[kbelyeu]

I was on a direct flight from Rio de Janiero to Houston back 2009 and we hit clear air turbulence. I was sleeping and woke up briefly and remember looking up then BANG.. everything went dark, bodies flying all over the cabin. I distinctly remember seeing a guy fly through the air, bounce off the center console with enough force it made a hole in the console allowing the wiring and oxygen masks fall out before he landed on the opposite side of the aircraft in the aisle. There were about 25 missiles (bodies) due to not wearing seat belts causing very serious damage to the aircraft, themselves and other passengers.

It was a very eerie feeling seeing all the ambulances and fire trucks along the side of the Miami International airport while we landed and taxied in. They removed the injured using the food and beverage scissor lifts and had to send a new aircraft from Houston to pick the rest of us up... I will never forget this incident nor seat in a seat with my seatbelt unfastened. To this date.. I see the flight attendants come around looking for unfastened seat belts and I always chuckle a little and say no <deleted> way am I setting on a moving aircraft without my seatbelt fastened.

Kurt

Was there a news article that covered this incident? Sounds almost like a partial script for a movie

Just a foot note.. the 26th injured person was hit by the beverage cart and was nearly killed.

Kurt

[4evermaat]

Ok. I was able to find this video. Very scary indeed I would have hated to have been roaming about the cabin during that time:

. Too bad no video of the actual flight. But none is needed as the details are pretty gruesome.

or the more lackadaisical Japanese approach

[Lancashirelad]

You'd think there would have been some news stories about post #8 3 out of 4 engines stopping.

[The Deerhunter]

I have one:

My daughter recently took a flight with Qantas from Auckland to Sydney and then BKK. At Auckland airport the boarding system broke down. She complained that she will miss her flight if they don't give her priority boarding. They ignored her pleas and after the system came back on they continued to give boarding passes down the line, she missed the Sydney and BKK flights. We all then missed our flights to Europe and missed hotel bookings etc etc. Not even a sorry from them.

That's Qantas for ya. Worst flights i have ever had. Flew AKL - LAX once on a real old 747, I think & the inflight entertainment system had just broken down on this flight we were told. No inflight movies or music Ten days later back LAX - AKL, same plane, same section, same problem. Just happened we were told. Surly staff. crap food & service. I never fly that airline from previous experiences but I was travelling with my business partner & he has an air-miles thing so I had to go on it to travel with him.