First airline horror story

[turnkey4099]

I've flown into LA once and LaGuardia twice, but it was so long ago that I don't remember anything unusual at either.:laughing: The weirdest experience I ever had with an airline was in March, 1992. I was working in Anchorage and my wife flew to Dallas, then on to a family reunion in West Virginia. She was due back in Anchorage early one afternoon, but one of my brothers said the airline called to say the flight had been delayed. Now my wife and I did not have cell phones in those days, so I wondered what had happened. But later I got a phone call from the airline that she would be in after 11 p.m. that night. I thought that was weird, but I went to the airport, found it almost deserted, and no indications or signs or anything about the flight number she was supposed to be on, and no one there had any information, except a gate number that plane was supposed to come to. Sure enough, about 11:30 p.m., my wife arrived. She was the ONLY passenger on the flight.

It seems the plane had a mechanical problem in Seattle, so the airline was going to put up the passengers in a hotel for the night. But as they were getting into a bus outside the terminal, a stewardess came running to tell them that the problem was fixed, and that the plane had to go on to Anchorage because it would be needed there for another flight. So they left it up to the passengers as to whether they wanted to go on to Anchorage, or spend the night in Seattle and go on another flight the next day. My wife was the only one who wasn't afraid to fly on a "broken" airplane.:laughing: So she was the only passenger with 2 pilots and I don't remember how many stewardesses. She said they told her they had about 50 meals prepared so she could sit anywhere and have all she wanted to eat.:laughing: The stewardesses sat and visited with her on the flight.

By best flight ever was the red-eye out of Anchorage to Seattle. 747 with full crew including stewardi taking care of 6 of us GIs.

 

[CADplans]

I was flying to Shipfitter A School for the US Navy, 1971,,
The plane was a Boeing 707, the flight was Chicago to Los Angeles,,,

An hour out of Chicago, the pilot announced we have lost all hydraulics,,
The flight continues,, but, VERY low, and slow.
I swear I could have stepped off a wing onto the ground when we went over the Rockies,,,

We landed with no flaps, about one hour late,,,
The landing speed was so high, everything was a blur when we touched down.
The tires REALLY screamed as they came up to speed.
The pilot used every inch of the runway to get the speed of the plane down,

The first time I was really scared was when I saw how many emergency vehicles were at the end of the runway to greet us.
It seemed like there was over 100 vehicles,, so many ambulances,,,
We finally were towed in close, and used steps to de-plane,,,

 

[Dftodd]

I flew from Seattle to Chicago. Was supposed to catch a flight from Chicago to my destination. Landed with 5 minutes to spare to reach my connecting flight. Booked it about a mile to my next gate. When I got there, the gate was still full.

Thinking I dodged the bullet. Asked a person there if they were waiting for the same flight I was. They said it hadn't boarded yet. Really feeling relieved now

Flight attendant gets on the PA system and announces that they lost our plane Apparently the earlier flight was canceled. So they parked the plane. And lost it It took them about another hour to locate it. The whole time I wondering how you lose something the size of a football field

 

[Dftodd]

I never had any issue with flying into LaGuardia. Course, I've also never been outside the airport there either, so I can't say what the area was like.

I did take a greyhound bus one time in my late teens, from Florida to Vermont. Had a 4 hour layover in New York City at the bus station. From about 1 am to 5 am. Not really sure where it was located in the city. Not realizing that there was a specific smoking area, attached to the bus station, I stepped out side with about 6 other folks that were on the bus with me. We were all looking for a smoking area.

To our dismay, we got locked out of the bus station till they reopened at 5am. Security guard basically told us tough s@@t, we were stuck outside. In the middle of cracktown, hanging with the dealers and prostitutes Across from a motel that rented rooms by the hour.

The six of us ranging from late teens to a couple in there early 70's spent a terrifying 4 hours huddled tight to the building in a very tight packed group being accosted by dealers and pimps.

That was my one and only bus trip.