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<p>Maybe it&#39;s being confined to a metal tube that&#39;s hurdling through the air at an enormous speed. Or maybe it&#39;s something in the water (<a href="https://www.someecards.com/life/work/air-travel-flight-attendants-secrets-passengers/" target="_blank">don&#39;t drink the water</a> on flights, btw). Whatever the reason, air travel seems to bring out some of human beings&#39; weirdest&mdash;and worst&mdash;behavior. Nobody knows this better than flight attendants, pilots, and other people in the business of air travel.</p><p>In <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/3v2iid/flight_attendants_of_redditwhats_the_most_bizarre/" target="_blank">various</a> Reddit <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/6zqoj2/flight_attendants_of_reddit_what_is_the_weirdest/" target="_blank">threads</a>, flight attendants and other airline crew were <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/4dhjn8/flight_attendants_of_reddit_whats_the_most/" target="_blank">asked</a> the &quot;weirdest&quot; and &quot;most bizarre&quot; things they&#39;ve ever seen during a flight.</p><h2>Here are 19 stories from airline crew about the craziest, weirdest, and most disturbing things they&#39;ve seen while up-in-the-air:</h2><p>1.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/NoseDragon/">NoseDragon</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>Well... Two Asian men, one in his 30s and the other in his 60s, almost got in a fight on a more than half empty flight from SFO to Osaka because the 60 year old man was not happy that the younger guy was using the pillow from the empty seat.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>The old man kept yelling &quot;NO! One pillow per passenger! NO!&quot; and trying to take the pillow away. The younger guy just had this &quot;WTF?&quot; look on his face.</p> <p>Laughs were had (not by them) and the flight attendants and captain had to get involved.</p> </blockquote><p>2.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/BatMally/">BatMally</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>Was a customer service rep for Southwest Airlines. Probably my favorite story is about a gentleman who went into one of the lavs to relieve himself. As he flushed, and opened the gooseneck valve to the tank, the plane hit a pocket of dead air and dropped, like 15 feet vertically. Everything in the tank proceeded upwards at the speed of gravity. He was...covered. They had to hose him off on the tarmac upon arrival.</p> </blockquote><p>3.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/RedLegend619/">RedLegend619</a>:</p><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>I had a passenger who came back multiple times to the galley to chat. Nothing new, of course, people want to stretch or stave off some boredom. The thing was, the stuff this guy starting talking about weirded me out.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>He once was in charge of holding the nuclear codes for the US military. His family owned Wyoming and sold it to the government. He hadn&#39;t been in the US for 16 years because the CIA was after him but he was returning because his father had died but he had to be careful because his brother was out to get him. So much more but I wasn&#39;t writing it down. It was just weird and after a while, a bit unnerving. The guy was seriously intense...</p> </blockquote><p>4.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/jbOOgi3/">jbOOgi3</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>My grandpa was a flight attendant and he saw someone petting a squirrel that they snuck into the flight in a carry on</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>5.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/little_mermarx/">little_mermarx</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>I&#39;m not a flight attendant but my mom is. She has a load of crazy stories over 30+ years on the job, but there&#39;s one in particular that has always haunted me..</p> <p>It was a transatlantic flight (EU &gt; US) and halfway through the flight near the back of the plane, the overhead bin started raining maggots on the passengers in one row -- just pouring through. One of the other flight attendants on the plane investigated and discovered that a passenger had flown in from Africa and was traveling to the US via Europe, and had a whole dead fish filled with maggots wrapped inside a newspaper (apparently it&#39;s considered a delicacy in some parts of the world).</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>They wound up leaving the closed suitcase in one of the bathrooms and locked the door until everybody disembarked after landing. Some people are afraid of crashing. Not me. I&#39;m just afraid of maggot rain.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>6.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/mits06/">mits06</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>Worked security at an airport had a flight attendant chain smoking pissed off because her flight was grounded . Apparently one of her first class passengers went into the bathroom smoked pcp and came out completely naked freaking out. Who the hell goes you know what will calm me down just a nip of pcp take the edge right off.</p> </blockquote><p>7.) From [deleted]:</p><blockquote> <p>Parked my cart, asked a guy what he wanted to drink. He started to answer, then held up a finger, puked into a plastic grocery bag, and then went on to ask me for a gingerale.</p> <p>I was speechless<button aria-label="upvote" aria-pressed="false" data-click-id="upvote"><br /> </button></p> </blockquote><p>8.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/tameflyaway/">tameflyaway</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>One lady was full-on screaming at me because I wouldn&#39;t let her into the crew rest area, insisting that I let her use the non-existent crew only lavatory.</p> <p>And there was the passenger who took a sleeping pill, sleepwalked (?) and peed on another passenger.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>9.) From [deleted]:</p><blockquote> <p>It baffles and amazes me every day how perfectly intelligent, reasonable human beings lose their minds once they step foot on an airplane. I once had basically an entire convention of surgeons on a flight, and they just could not figure out anything regarding the flight. Could not understand the overhead bin is shared space, constantly ordered beverages not on the menu, got up during relatively severe turbulence for the bathroom 3 minutes into the flight despite several PA&#39;s not to. The saying goes &quot;One checked bag, one checked brain&quot; and it&#39;s bizarre how true it is consistently.</p> </blockquote><p>10.) From [deleted]:</p><blockquote> <p>My mom who is a flight attendant just told me this story on her trip where a women went into the bathroom and forgot to lock the door. Now you have to remember just how small and crammed these bathrooms on planes are, so anyway, a man then went up to the bathroom and thinking it was empty, opened the door and stepped inside. Now upon stepping inside he immediately saw her and tried to quickly move back out-except he had unknowingly stepped into her pants and hooked his foot in them-so when he jumped back out he dragged her by her pants into the aisle with him and then as she struggled to break free he fell also so they started rolling around on the floor fighting one another, her half naked trying to pull her pants up, him panicked and desperate to be free.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>11.) From [deleted]:</p><blockquote> <p>I once saw David Spade change into a business suit in 2 seconds in a Jetliner bathroom.</p> </blockquote><p>12.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/xarumitzu/">xarumitzu</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>I&#39;m a flight mechanic. My most entertaining gate call was for a kitten that had gotten loose on the plane. An elderly woman had brought her kitten in a soft crate, and opened it to be nice to the kitten. It had run to the front of the plane and gotten inside the cockpit. We had to de-plane all the passengers, and search the entire plane nose to tail. We finally found the kitten snuggled in some insulation between the cockpit and the avionics bay.</p> </blockquote><p>13.) From [deleted]:</p><blockquote> <p>Had a guy in first class on an international flight strip down naked in his sleep, walk down the aisle and fail at getting into the bathroom. I grabbed a blanket and ushered him back into his seat where he woke up and asked where his cloths went! He had had a lot of wine and later i found out he mixed it with sleeping pills. Wine and sleeping pills make for good stories.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>14.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/hubberbubber/">hubberbubber</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>My father is a pilot and apparently one time when he was flying a flight back to Australia, the champion Australian rugby team was flying back on his flight. They rented out the entirety of first class, and the moment the flight reached cruising altitude, stripped down to their boxers. Allegedly they were some of the most polite patrons he had seen, but were just mostly naked.</p> </blockquote><p>15.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/robotdick/">robotdick</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>My mom was a flight attendant, one time lightning struck the plane &amp; the engine just shit the bed for a few seconds (which of course felt like an eternity) lights went out, cabin pressure dropped &amp; the little ceiling bags popped out, the plane dropped in altitude very rapidly and then...it was over and everything went back to normal. Flight attendants deserve serious props! They have to think quickly, act accordingly, and stay calm in situations like that.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>16.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/packersfan333/">packersfan333</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>I am in airline pilot and I flew up in Alaska for just about three years. I was doing one of my usual routes, Fairbanks to barter island AK. One of my passengers left their muktuk on the plane while we had about a four hour lay over... we had the ground crew put a heater in the cabin to keep the flight instruments warm... Well little did we know it heated up the muktuk as well. It smelled a lot like garbage and rotting flesh. I kept my oxygen mask on the entire flight back to Fairbanks...</p> <p>Muktuk is the traditional Inuit/Eskimo meal of frozen whale skin and blubber.</p> </blockquote><p>17.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/theinterruptingcow/">theinterruptingcow</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>Wife is a flight attendant. What happens to her rather frequently is people will blow their noses and try to hand her tissues when she has no gloves on or trash bag in hand. It blows my mind a bit why they think that&#39;s acceptable</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>18.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/anything_green/">anything_green</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>Flight attendant here. For one, some people seem to shut off their brains when entering an airplane. Weird things - people handing me over their babies&#39; used diapers - people trying to hand me their rubbish while I&#39;m giving out food (hello hygiene??) - people asking after a long haul flight if I&#39;m directly returning (of course, I&#39;m flying 12h flights back and forth until I collapse) - people not closing bathroom doors - parents changing baby&#39;s diapers on the table in front of them - people demanding three drinks on a 25 minute flight - people taking of their shoes and going to the bathroom barefoot.. Ah there&#39;s so many more.</p> </blockquote><p>19.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/octopus-prime/">octopus-prime</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>I used to be a flight attendant. I was working on a plane that had two lavatories, one in front and one in back. I was doing something in my front galley and I heard the lav door open and close, but I didn&#39;t hear it lock. I turned to politely knock on the door and remind the poor soul to lock the lav door. As I turned around I saw a man walking into the bathroom too, I could see that someone who I assumed to be his girlfriend already in the bathroom. Maybe it was a random though, I don&#39;t judge. Anyway, we made eye contact and it was pretty obvious what they were doing so I said to him, &quot;you know the lav in the back is much more spacious&quot; To which he just replied with a shrug of his shoulders and went in.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>Now almost everyone on this flight was asleep so I figured, who cares? I&#39;ll let them have their fun. So I went to the back for a little while, checking on passengers and the other flight attendant. As I came back to the front the girl was just coming out of the lav, looking classy as ever. And then a few seconds later, the guy came out too. After he left the lav he took a few steps down the aisle then turned around to give me a double thumbs up.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div>

19 airline crew share stories of the weirdest things they've seen during a flight.

Maybe it&#39;s being confined to a metal tube that&#39;s hurdling through the air at an enormous speed. Or maybe it&#39;s something in the water (don&#39;t drink the water on flights, btw). Whatever the reason, air travel seems to bring out some of human beings&#39; weirdest&mdash;and worst&mdash;behavior. Nobody knows this better than flight attendants, pilots, and other people in the business of air travel.In various Reddit threads, flight attendants and other airline crew were asked the &quot;weirdest&quot; and &quot;most bizarre&quot; things they&#39;ve ever seen during a flight.Here are 19 stories from airline crew about the craziest, weirdest, and most disturbing things they&#39;ve seen while up-in-the-air:1.) From NoseDragon: Well... Two Asian men, one in his 30s and the other in his 60s, almost got in a fight on a more than half empty flight from SFO to Osaka because the 60 year old man was not happy that the younger guy was using the pillow from the empty seat.  The old man kept yelling &quot;NO! One pillow per passenger! NO!&quot; and trying to take the pillow away. The younger guy just had this &quot;WTF?&quot; look on his face. Laughs were had (not by them) and the flight attendants and captain had to get involved. 2.) From BatMally: Was a customer service rep for Southwest Airlines. Probably my favorite story is about a gentleman who went into one of the lavs to relieve himself. As he flushed, and opened the gooseneck valve to the tank, the plane hit a pocket of dead air and dropped, like 15 feet vertically. Everything in the tank proceeded upwards at the speed of gravity. He was...covered. They had to hose him off on the tarmac upon arrival. 3.) From RedLegend619: I had a passenger who came back multiple times to the galley to chat. Nothing new, of course, people want to stretch or stave off some boredom. The thing was, the stuff this guy starting talking about weirded me out.  He once was in charge of holding the nuclear codes for the US military. His family owned Wyoming and sold it to the government. He hadn&#39;t been in the US for 16 years because the CIA was after him but he was returning because his father had died but he had to be careful because his brother was out to get him. So much more but I wasn&#39;t writing it down. It was just weird and after a while, a bit unnerving. The guy was seriously intense... 4.) From jbOOgi3: My grandpa was a flight attendant and he saw someone petting a squirrel that they snuck into the flight in a carry on 5.) From little_mermarx: I&#39;m not a flight attendant but my mom is. She has a load of crazy stories over 30+ years on the job, but there&#39;s one in particular that has always haunted me.. It was a transatlantic flight (EU &gt; US) and halfway through the flight near the back of the plane, the overhead bin started raining maggots on the passengers in one row -- just pouring through. One of the other flight attendants on the plane investigated and discovered that a passenger had flown in from Africa and was traveling to the US via Europe, and had a whole dead fish filled with maggots wrapped inside a newspaper (apparently it&#39;s considered a delicacy in some parts of the world).  They wound up leaving the closed suitcase in one of the bathrooms and locked the door until everybody disembarked after landing. Some people are afraid of crashing. Not me. I&#39;m just afraid of maggot rain. 6.) From mits06: Worked security at an airport had a flight attendant chain smoking pissed off because her flight was grounded . Apparently one of her first class passengers went into the bathroom smoked pcp and came out completely naked freaking out. Who the hell goes you know what will calm me down just a nip of pcp take the edge right off. 7.) From [deleted]: Parked my cart, asked a guy what he wanted to drink. He started to answer, then held up a finger, puked into a plastic grocery bag, and then went on to ask me for a gingerale. I was speechless  8.) From tameflyaway: One lady was full-on screaming at me because I wouldn&#39;t let her into the crew rest area, insisting that I let her use the non-existent crew only lavatory. And there was the passenger who took a sleeping pill, sleepwalked (?) and peed on another passenger. 9.) From [deleted]: It baffles and amazes me every day how perfectly intelligent, reasonable human beings lose their minds once they step foot on an airplane. I once had basically an entire convention of surgeons on a flight, and they just could not figure out anything regarding the flight. Could not understand the overhead bin is shared space, constantly ordered beverages not on the menu, got up during relatively severe turbulence for the bathroom 3 minutes into the flight despite several PA&#39;s not to. The saying goes &quot;One checked bag, one checked brain&quot; and it&#39;s bizarre how true it is consistently. 10.) From [deleted]: My mom who is a flight attendant just told me this story on her trip where a women went into the bathroom and forgot to lock the door. Now you have to remember just how small and crammed these bathrooms on planes are, so anyway, a man then went up to the bathroom and thinking it was empty, opened the door and stepped inside. Now upon stepping inside he immediately saw her and tried to quickly move back out-except he had unknowingly stepped into her pants and hooked his foot in them-so when he jumped back out he dragged her by her pants into the aisle with him and then as she struggled to break free he fell also so they started rolling around on the floor fighting one another, her half naked trying to pull her pants up, him panicked and desperate to be free. 11.) From [deleted]: I once saw David Spade change into a business suit in 2 seconds in a Jetliner bathroom. 12.) From xarumitzu: I&#39;m a flight mechanic. My most entertaining gate call was for a kitten that had gotten loose on the plane. An elderly woman had brought her kitten in a soft crate, and opened it to be nice to the kitten. It had run to the front of the plane and gotten inside the cockpit. We had to de-plane all the passengers, and search the entire plane nose to tail. We finally found the kitten snuggled in some insulation between the cockpit and the avionics bay. 13.) From [deleted]: Had a guy in first class on an international flight strip down naked in his sleep, walk down the aisle and fail at getting into the bathroom. I grabbed a blanket and ushered him back into his seat where he woke up and asked where his cloths went! He had had a lot of wine and later i found out he mixed it with sleeping pills. Wine and sleeping pills make for good stories. 14.) From hubberbubber: My father is a pilot and apparently one time when he was flying a flight back to Australia, the champion Australian rugby team was flying back on his flight. They rented out the entirety of first class, and the moment the flight reached cruising altitude, stripped down to their boxers. Allegedly they were some of the most polite patrons he had seen, but were just mostly naked. 15.) From robotdick: My mom was a flight attendant, one time lightning struck the plane &amp; the engine just shit the bed for a few seconds (which of course felt like an eternity) lights went out, cabin pressure dropped &amp; the little ceiling bags popped out, the plane dropped in altitude very rapidly and then...it was over and everything went back to normal. Flight attendants deserve serious props! They have to think quickly, act accordingly, and stay calm in situations like that. 16.) From packersfan333: I am in airline pilot and I flew up in Alaska for just about three years. I was doing one of my usual routes, Fairbanks to barter island AK. One of my passengers left their muktuk on the plane while we had about a four hour lay over... we had the ground crew put a heater in the cabin to keep the flight instruments warm... Well little did we know it heated up the muktuk as well. It smelled a lot like garbage and rotting flesh. I kept my oxygen mask on the entire flight back to Fairbanks... Muktuk is the traditional Inuit/Eskimo meal of frozen whale skin and blubber. 17.) From theinterruptingcow: Wife is a flight attendant. What happens to her rather frequently is people will blow their noses and try to hand her tissues when she has no gloves on or trash bag in hand. It blows my mind a bit why they think that&#39;s acceptable 18.) From anything_green: Flight attendant here. For one, some people seem to shut off their brains when entering an airplane. Weird things - people handing me over their babies&#39; used diapers - people trying to hand me their rubbish while I&#39;m giving out food (hello hygiene??) - people asking after a long haul flight if I&#39;m directly returning (of course, I&#39;m flying 12h flights back and forth until I collapse) - people not closing bathroom doors - parents changing baby&#39;s diapers on the table in front of them - people demanding three drinks on a 25 minute flight - people taking of their shoes and going to the bathroom barefoot.. Ah there&#39;s so many more. 19.) From octopus-prime: I used to be a flight attendant. I was working on a plane that had two lavatories, one in front and one in back. I was doing something in my front galley and I heard the lav door open and close, but I didn&#39;t hear it lock. I turned to politely knock on the door and remind the poor soul to lock the lav door. As I turned around I saw a man walking into the bathroom too, I could see that someone who I assumed to be his girlfriend already in the bathroom. Maybe it was a random though, I don&#39;t judge. Anyway, we made eye contact and it was pretty obvious what they were doing so I said to him, &quot;you know the lav in the back is much more spacious&quot; To which he just replied with a shrug of his shoulders and went in.  Now almost everyone on this flight was asleep so I figured, who cares? I&#39;ll let them have their fun. So I went to the back for a little while, checking on passengers and the other flight attendant. As I came back to the front the girl was just coming out of the lav, looking classy as ever. And then a few seconds later, the guy came out too. After he left the lav he took a few steps down the aisle then turned around to give me a double thumbs up. 

Maybe it&#39;s being confined to a metal tube that&#39;s hurdling through the air at an enormous speed. Or maybe it&#39;s something in the water (don&#39;t drink the water on flights, btw). Whatever the reason, air travel seems to bring...