https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Wed, 20 May 2026 20:01:30 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/spinoff-worst-flight#post-199414 Fri, 22 Jun 2012 13:39:44 +0000 pelikila 199414@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>One was a large C-4 military flight where we had to put on the oxygen masks due to loss in pressure and the strap to tighten the mask onto your face broke so I had to just hold it on. I was around 15 I think. The other was a recent flight that was so turbulent one flight attendant was telling another flight attendant that in her 10+ years of flying it was the worst she'd ever been on. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/spinoff-worst-flight#post-199367 Fri, 22 Jun 2012 13:15:31 +0000 LuLu Mom 199367@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Super small plane from St. Louis to Lincoln during a thunderstorm. It kept going up and down constantly, it was a rough one! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/spinoff-worst-flight#post-199351 Fri, 22 Jun 2012 13:05:20 +0000 MamaMoose 199351@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@FutureMrsMcK: I've BEEN on that flight between Philly and Boston where they make one person move to balance out the plane. Scared the crap out of me too!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/spinoff-worst-flight#post-199344 Fri, 22 Jun 2012 12:58:43 +0000 Mrs. Pickle 199344@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I've never really had a bad experience. Well, on my last flight I sat in the very back. Someone got sick in the bathroom and the smell was terrible. :/ </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/spinoff-worst-flight#post-199294 Fri, 22 Jun 2012 12:14:32 +0000 lovehoneybee 199294@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Mine is a weekend of ridiculous flights. I haven't flown much, but when my BFF was in staying in FL and I was in PA her mom passed away. I booked the next flight down, which left in like 2 hours.</p> <p>All the self check-ins were down. It took me over an hour to get through the security line, and then I got flagged for a pat down, then was taken to a little tiny room where they swiped the inside of my shoes and purse with a Q-tip and put it through a machine that said "Checking for Explosives". I had to RUN across the airport (because of course my terminal was on the other side), barefoot and just barely made my flight. </p> <p>For some reason, in order to fly from PA to FL, you first have to fly to Boston. After again running across the airport to catch my connection, I found that my flight had been canceled. Not even delayed, just canceled. Luckily they were able to put me on another flight (8 hours later) to Atlanta with a connectikon to FL (instead of direct from Boston, like it had been), and they gave me meal vouchers, which was nice. </p> <p>When I got to Atlanta, I saw the sign for the terminal I wanted, and that it was about 1000 yds away, and I had time so I thought I'd walk it instead of taking the subway connection thing...and walked right out of the secure area before I realized it. Had to go back through security (which luckily had almost no wait), but got flagged again, and had to pat down and my shoes and purse swiped for explosives. </p> <p>On the return trip, I again was flagged at security (I assume it was the last-minute ticket?), and went through all the hoopla again. When I got to Boston I had another made dash across the airport, was panting when I got to the terminal, asked the guy through pants if they had started to board yet and did I have time to use the bathroom. He said "Yes, we'll start boarding in a minute, but I'll make sure you're on the plane." Awesome. I come back from the bathroom only to learn that because of really bad weather in Boston and Philly our flight would be delayed. And delayed. And delayed. In the meantime I hadn't slept in two days, and was in tears when I talked to DH on the phone. </p> <p>Finally they told us that we needed to get boarded and in the air in 15 minutes or our flight would be canceled. Once we were all seated, the flight attendant told us that one person needed to move from the front of the plane to the back (it was a small like 50 seater) or the plane wouldn't be able to take off. And the whole time I'm sitting thinking "Really? One person's body weight will throw the whole plane off balance? Holy crap I'm going to die." It was storming (like lightning and sheets of rain) and there was a ton of turbulence. I clutched the sides of my seat the entire way flight, seriously convinced we were going to go down at any second. </p> <p>I think that was the last time I flew, haha! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/spinoff-worst-flight#post-199042 Fri, 22 Jun 2012 09:56:25 +0000 DillonLion 199042@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I took my first oversees flight to Israel when I was 22. I didn't know anyone going on the trip, so I was basically traveling alone, over a huge ocean, overnight. It got delayed 4 hours, so by the time we were boarding, no one had slept, and the sun was shining brightly in the sky. For me, I have this mental block about sleeping with its bright out, even if I can get myself into total darkness inside. </p> <p>I wound up in the middle seat of one of those huge inter-continental planes with like 5 seats in the middle. Everyone around me immediately fell asleep. </p> <p>I took a Seroquil thinking it would help me sleep. But all it did was make me feel like I was drugged, and I was left fully awake, with an decrease in my motor abilities and felt like I would be drooling momentarily. </p> <p>I could never get comfortable enough to relax or fall asleep. Then we hit a bunch of turbulence. </p> <p>It was miserable. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/spinoff-worst-flight#post-198303 Thu, 21 Jun 2012 20:25:18 +0000 matador84 198303@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>traveling from omaha to dfw and having to make an emergency landing in oklahoma city due to extremely high winds! then i had to stay in a crappy hotel, alone and overnight in okc. oxygen masks were popping down and it was horrific!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/spinoff-worst-flight#post-198295 Thu, 21 Jun 2012 20:23:07 +0000 eeh 198295@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Mine wasn't that bad but we had a 5 hour flight to Anchorage, AK where I was in the very last row of the plane by the bathroom in the aisle seat. I understand the need to go to the bathroom but seriously people...lay off the freaking drinks if you have to pee that much. A few must have been extremely nervous because they were coming back there every 10-15 minutes or so. It was the middle of the night and impossible to sleep because of the people bumping into me. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/spinoff-worst-flight#post-198289 Thu, 21 Jun 2012 20:22:22 +0000 Mrs. Jacks 198289@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Either my emergency landing in Portland or my huge elevation loss at Dulles. Everything I know tells me that flying is so safe, but after my experiences I'm not so sure! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/spinoff-worst-flight#post-198274 Thu, 21 Jun 2012 20:18:44 +0000 BananaPancakes 198274@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@MamaMoose: Mine was also on a prop plane from Nassau ( but into Orlando). But it was just because there was no air, the plane was packed and it was July. I have never been hotter in my life and I live in Florida. People smelled so bad. Thank god it's only a 45 min flight. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/spinoff-worst-flight#post-197915 Thu, 21 Jun 2012 18:56:52 +0000 Mrs. Oatmeal 197915@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I was on a plane home from Germany several years ago, the summer that there was a massive blackout all over the Eastern Seaboard. Rather than land at the Toronto airport, we circled over it for an hour, flew back to Montreal and emergency landed on the runway there. We then sat on the pavement in a non-air-conditioned plane for 4 hours, before being let off, sleeping in the airport, and taking a school bus back to Toronto. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/spinoff-worst-flight#post-197829 Thu, 21 Jun 2012 18:36:33 +0000 mrs. bird 197829@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@MamaMoose: she said she wanted to sit near the baby, the stranger's baby... That she'd never met before. But not next to them because then she would be in a center seat. She was an odd woman. And the man didn't want to sit in my center seat or near the baby, probably not near his wife either, but he didn't verbalize that one. Maybe it was meant to show us what a marriage shouldn't look like :D </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/spinoff-worst-flight#post-197811 Thu, 21 Jun 2012 18:30:24 +0000 MamaMoose 197811@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mrs. bird: why on earth wouldn't she switch so she could be with her husband and you could be with yours?? So weird! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/spinoff-worst-flight#post-197801 Thu, 21 Jun 2012 18:26:57 +0000 mrs. bird 197801@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Not too bad, but on our honeymoon we flew south west and didn't know about how their seating worked, so we ended up not being able to sit together. He was crammed in a row with two other big guys and was miserable and I had to sit with one of their wives and a lady with a baby and the two of them talked across me to one another the whole time and the older lady made some nasty comment to DH when he politely asked if she would mind switching since we were on our honeymoon, she refused. It was fine, but not enjoyable in the least! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/spinoff-worst-flight#post-197781 Thu, 21 Jun 2012 18:20:34 +0000 MamaMoose 197781@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I was on a prop plane from Nassau Bahamas to Miami and one of the engines failed. Lights went out, plane dropped significantly. I was 17 and on spring break with my girlfriends. It was terrifying. Most of the women were crying. Thank God we had only been in the air about 15 minutes and we turned around and coasted back to Nassau. I honestly don't know how I got back on another plane a few hours later. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/spinoff-worst-flight#post-197774 Thu, 21 Jun 2012 18:17:26 +0000 littlebug 197774@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>LA to Sydney, Australia. A kid in the seat behind me was kicking me the ENTIRE time. Even after I asked his mother to get him to stop, like, SIX times. I wanted to kill him. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/spinoff-worst-flight#post-197771 Thu, 21 Jun 2012 18:16:39 +0000 SleepyMonkey 197771@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>we were flying back from aruba and there was a big nor'easter storm in the northeast, so we couldn't land for a long time. we circled for about 2 hours, then had to land in scranton to refuel and take off again and circled for another hour. add that to some really awful turbulence, and people were throwing up on the plane. the woman sitting directly behind me was throwing up for the entire hour before we landed. i was shaking when i got off the plane, it was terrible. it has made me a nervous flyer. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/spinoff-worst-flight#post-197764 Thu, 21 Jun 2012 18:14:31 +0000 LinzR 197764@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I haven't any terrible experiences once I made it on the plane, but last summer I flew to Atlanta to meet DH and got delayed SIX hours at the airport. Then I flew home from Charleston, SC (who has an airport the size of a matchbook) and my flight kept getting delayed to the point I was afraid of missing my connecting flight. Eventually they decided no more flights were going out at all the night. So thankfully DH was still in Charleston so he got to pick me up. Ugh. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/spinoff-worst-flight#post-197725 Thu, 21 Jun 2012 17:38:34 +0000 hilsy85 197725@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>One of the plane rides we took on our honeymoon to get from Johannesburg to the safari lodge in South Africa where we were staying. I have NEVER been on a bumpier ride and was convinced that I was going to throw up all over myself. Not to mention, the plane was over heated, crowded, and very small! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/spinoff-worst-flight#post-197724 Thu, 21 Jun 2012 17:37:07 +0000 BSB 197724@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I've actually had pretty good experiences on planes. The worst will be being on a plane for a long long time taxiing. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/spinoff-worst-flight#post-197717 Thu, 21 Jun 2012 17:26:16 +0000 DillonLion 197717@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>What is the worst plane ride you've ever been on? </p>