re: Airport Madness......Weirdest thing you've ever seen at the airport/while flying

I will say Schiphol is an interesting airport. If you stand there long enough you'll see every body. From the dregs of Asia, American businessmen, to the royal family of Zamunda. Great scene.

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I almost threw up in the passport line when I flew from Barcelona to London...however it was an 8 oclock flight and I had been drinking all day in Barcelona

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Advice on bars/clubs? I'd like to hit a few and I'll be there over New Years

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Was on a flight from Houston to New Orleans. Literally 45 minutes into the flight they announce mechanical issues and turn around and fly back to Houston. WTF???

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That makes almost zero sense. You'd be 10 minutes from New Orleans at that point. Weird.

Well if that's the case MD I'm glad I got to drink vodka in first class while he shuffled to the back with the commoners.

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I kept my hands to myself, too, as did she.

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Now you're just being modest you sly devil you!

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Did yall bone afterwards?

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I'm too old for her ... couldn't have handled it.

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every time my wife and I fly together the third seat on our row is always a 600 lbmouth breather with gi problems

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Had a Pakistani lady scraping her grotesque calloused bare feet with a credit card on a flight to Toronto.

The light indicating that the landing gear was fully down and locked failed to come on in the cockpit on our final approach to Memphis. The pilot came on the intercom and informed the passengers of the situation and said it was probably just a bad bulb, but that we were going to do a low pass by the tower and let the ground people look at it with binoculars to see if it was indeed down and locked. We made two passes and the pilot came back on and said essentially what the hell we're going to land. The entire time well over half the people on board were crying, praying, and/or turning green. I figured we were good to go and watched the scenery as I assumed the crew did not want to kill themselves. It was strange.

Went through security behind some Hasidic Jews that only spoke Hebrew. If I remember correctly this was right after the underwear bomber. Watching the new black TSA lady argue with the Jews was one for the ages

Flight from Birmingham to Manchester, NH, we were on one of those small regional united planes. I have a lady with a small baby (4 months) or so next to me. She decides the fold down tray would be a good place to change the diaper. That baby shite was terrible.

We crash landed in a twin engine private plane in the late 80's. I was only about 10 years old.

Here is the story, when we originally board the plane the pilot and mechanic are working on one of the twin engines. My dad asked if it was ok and the guy says, "Oh yeah, its fine. Just topping her off..."

We make it North Carolina fine. On the way back my mom says, "Excuse me? Is this thing suppossed to be leaking oil?"

The pilot says, "Oh yeah, thats why we were topping it off..."

She says, "This much oil?!?!"

When the pilot looked back I could see the fear in his eyes. I looked over and the rear 3 or 4 windows were black with oil. At that exact moment, BAM! A fireball erupts and the plane starts shuttering and vibrating like crazy and you can feel it heading off to the side. It was like an old war movie, the pilot was instantly saying "May day, may day! Where are we?!?!"

We make about 2 or 3 severely vibrating circles all the while we could barely see fire through the oil covered windows. We happened to be over Birmingham, Alabama. As we hit the run way a fire truck is chasing us down and hosing white foam all over the plane as we quickly exited the other side.

The pilot apologized and offered to charter another plane for us. My dad declined and rented a car to drive the rest of the way back to Louisiana.

My mom already had flying issues, but never got on another plane and still says we could not pay her to do so in the future.

I've flown many times since then. I figure if I was already in a bad flying situation once, odds are it won't happen again. Theoretically, you want me on your plane.