Scariest plane experience

I once took off with full flaps and could figure out why I couldn't climb. I was already preparing to ditch in the lake when I saw the flaps lever and hit it.


Other than that, nothing really.

Trying to get home from iowa when I was 21 and seeing the prices.

Still never flown, talked the car rental lady into letting me rent a car.

Flying on a puddle jumper, an E145 a few years ago. As soon as we took off, maybe 100 or 200 feet up, the pilot dramatically dipped the right wing extremely fast. Scared the shite out of everyone for a few seconds, then he relieved and told us a flock of geese came out of no where and that he had to do it to avoid a mid air collision.

After that, the flight was perfect.

Landing a 172 in a 20 knot crosswind while soloing as a student.

Said a quick prayer on final.

Flying to NYC several years ago and the plane suddenly nosed into about a 30-40 degree dive for about 3-5 minutes.
Finally pilot pulled it out of the dive and we continued on.

No word from the pilot about it at all. I think I let dents in the arm of the seat I was in. Scared the crap out of me.

Sat next to a 400 lber and was worried I would pee on myself just trying to get past him

Was on a military flight and during landing I was looking down the runway from the side window. We hit hard and before we got off the plane the pilots and some maintenance crew were already under the plane looking at the landing gear.

There was only like 7 of us on that flight. It didn't take us, but a few minutes to get off the plane. We were all wondering wtf happened.

Lots of ugly turbulence over the Rockies over the years.

Had a rough landing in Dallas during bad weather. Ended up with a black eye from colliding with the passenger sitting next to me.

Airliner runs off end of the runway. No one killed or seriously hurt, but damn scary.