How many have had a bad plane flight?

select-fire

The mid size jet I rode to Florida was a very rough ride. My stomach did more flip / flopin' than Kerry. Didn't get sick but the pilot said it was really rough. Anyone been thru a flight you might think wouldn't land?

" It Ain't Over till its Over"

dcon12

All of mine landed, none bad here. Don

"I would not mind being the last man on earth just to see if all those girls were telling me the truth"

Muffinman

If it has a door, I am Jumping with a Chute.

bobski

1000 plus military takeoffs, no landings in them. airborne! but man i hated MOP flights. on the civilian side, i never liked those little beech commuter planes. nosiy and ruff ride. air busses were the best.

9acresofheaven

Yeah, Rome Italy, back to the good 'ol USA on Sept. 11th 2002, the one year anniversary of the Twin Towers terrorist attack. The Italian Military had vehicles lined up in a herringbone pattern so you had to slowly zig-zag thru them,while the guards peered in your windows and spoke on their radios. The search inside the airport was quite thorough,and the plane ride was the Loooongest of my life.Met a man on my flight who had just come to Rome from Greece,to catch that flight. He said that the Greeks had TANKS on the runways! What were they thinking?? Plane held 300+ passengers and there were at most 35 of us on board.Practically no one was flying that day.
That's the bad. The best was the US Customs Agent who greeted us, as we disembarked, with a hearty "Welcome Home!".

I'm the NRA and I Vote

22WRF

Engine fire on a Western Air DC-8 Honolulu to Anchorage.
Returned to Hono Sat on the Tarmac with no A/C for 3 hrs while they fixed it. Continued on same plane to Anchorage.

MAC Flight lost main gear landing at Anderson AFB, Guam.

USCG C-130 SAR Case diverted on what was supposed to a short hop from Hilo, HI to Barbers Pt. Hi. 8 hr ride just off the wave tops escorting a single pvt aircraft that had been lost to Kaneohe MCAS.

Had some bad chopper rides.

I don't fly anymore for any reason.

Warbirds

Had more than my fair share of Cod's make me believe I was done, been in them on fire, blown hydraulic reservoirs, No ECS (plane won't pressurize) single engine, ect. had a few planes crash pretty much right next to me on the flight deck, oh yeah and I rode from L.A. to Japan and back inside of an Airforce tanker, not exactly a gulfstream lear jet if you know what I mean.


quote:Had some bad chopper rides.


You and me both, but I won't bore you with any of those.

R/

Dave

How different the world would be if we could consult the veteran instead of the politician. - Henry Miller

will270win

Ch-53E returning from western Iraq to cantral Iraq. 4 rockets on the west side of the lake all missed. I guess it was not a real bad flight since we landed but I did have to change my underpants when we got back.

"When the pin is pulled, Mr. Grenade is not our friend."
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22WRF

One of things that makes for a bad chopper ride is when the Crew Chief says. "We are already 500# overloaded if we can't get off the deck some of you guys will have to get out" Then you lift off and drop down til the wheels hit the water.

HappyNanoq

I think it's fun when people say it's getting rough. =o)
I sit there thinking.. YEAH ROLLERCOASTER !! [:p]

The "worst" was a flight from Nuuk to Kangerlussuaq in Greenland.
Arctic storm coming in, snow, turbulence all over that resulted in about 3 of 4 passenger lost their cookies into the bag.
After the second try - they were out of bags..

Man that was fun.

I sat in the left side of the plane, and the DASH-7 came in almost sideways due to the crosswinds.
When you sit and look against the cockpit - you are looking forward.. well the landingstrip was about 40-45 degrees to the left of "forward" - I could see the entire landingstrip as we came down.
Just a split second before the wheels touched, the plane was * into "Forward" and landed perfectly without even a bounce.

If you think the US is bad - jumping out of a plane is bad - try an arctic storm north of the polar circle during snowfall.
We hadn't been in the airport for more than 15 minutes before we had a whiteout for about 7 hours.
The actic storm lasted about 2 days.


Don't do anything that I've allready done - That'd be just plain STOOOOOOPID.

idsman75

I had a connecting flight that was cancelled from Minneapolis to Sioux Falls. They stuck me on a different flight and they only had room in First Class. Beer was free and I had just turned 21 and had just completed MP School at Fort McClellan so I was all dried out and was a total lightweight. I drank free beer from Minneapolis to Sioux Falls. Why was the flight bad? It only lasted 45 minutes. [:D]

HappyNanoq

Sorry to hear that, Idsman =o(

We have a winner.... [:D]


Don't do anything that I've allready done - That'd be just plain STOOOOOOPID.

mark christian

I don't get sea sick or air sick but I once flew on a small commuter plane between Dallas-Fort Worth and Tyler Texas which pushed me to the very limit of endurance. The plane itself was so noisey that I had to wear ear plugs and we hit such bad turbulance over east Texas that I just know we must have barrel rolled and looped. The worst point of the flight was when the small curtan which seperated the cockpit from the passenger compartment flew open. I was seated in the front row of the 12 seats on the plane and as the co pilot reached back to pull the curtan closed our eyes met and I could clearly see the fear on his face! The curtan flew open again a few minuted later but this time he never bothered to pull it closed since he and the pilot were now too busy trying to control the plane. By now hand luggage was flying all over the plane, people were screaming and praying and a few vomited which did nothing to improve the situation. I was on my way to an LE demo and all I could think about was after we crashed what would happen to the two MP-5 sub machineguns I had locked in an aluminum gun case inside the planes aft luggage compartment; would the guns survive the crash only to have someone find and keep them or would they be simply destroyed along with the plane and everyone on it? By some miracle the plane managed to land at Tyler only to promptly be hauled off to a maintainence hanger, probably never to fly again!

"Nothing can ever be made 'idiot proof' because idiots are simply too clever"!
Mark T. Christian

Rembrandt

Worst was a prop commuter flight (Rio Sul) over central Brazil. Rough turbulance, some people had vomited and the mixture was running up and down the aisle....smell was sickening. Airport we were to land was fogged in, went on to another that could do instrument landings....then took a bus (4 hours) back to the fogged in airport. Had no way to contact the people I was scheduled to meet...no one on the bus spoke English, only Portuguese...got in about 1:00am to an empty airport....night watchman let me sleep in the waiting area for the night.

plains scout

lets see
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wing on fire

bumped my head on the ceiling

kid in front of me puked

banged my head on the side wall

hit the ground so hard the luggage compartmentts flew open

people jumping out ofthe emergency exit over the wing

full throttle and then hard brakes before the end of the run way

etc etc etc.

Just love flying[xx(]

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