re: What's the Worst flight you've ever been on

My first flight alone as a 17 yr old flying from N.O. to RI had the honor of being worst. They had just served dinner (back in the days when you actually got a hot meal) when a minute later the Flight Attendants came hurrying back down the aisle grabbing everyone's trays while the Captain announced we had to make an emergency landing in Raleigh, NC.

The panicked look on the Flight Attendant's face really left me feeling confident all would be well. I remember trying to keep my cool and put on a brave face while thinking "WTF...I'm too young to die!"

We came in pretty fast as they must have cleared us with priority to land at the nearest airport. We had to sit on the plane while they repaired whatever was causing the lack of oil pressure. No more meals were given out after we finally took off since they trashed them all. I was a hungry teenager after I finally got my appetite back.

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I can top all these, was only 3 at the time, so don't remember flight 305 from Portland to Seattle in 1971. Actually set across aisle from him.

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That is a CSB. For real.

My dad says we took Pan Am flight 103 from England a Month or so before it was bombed when he was being transfered back to a stateside base. Since I didn't actually get blown up, worst flight was delayed at ATL on the tarmac for 2 hours and then a good hour of screaming baby right behind me on our way to Boston.

stinky stories remind me of a train ride from Copenhagen to Hamburg, overnight, in one of the little sections where 6 people sit, with a Turk who took your breath away the stink was so bad

Propeller flight BTR to IAH. Get to Houston and airport's closed due to severe weather with a tornado on the ground a few miles from the airport. So we circle for over an hour in the worst turbulence I've ever encountered. Without the seat belts there would have been injuries.

And the only bathroom was closed. They told us before we boarded. The noisy drunk who downed 3 beers before the turbulence hit became our comic relief. He was in agony by the time we finally got down.

Landing in Minneapolis in a blizzard was not much fun either. After 20 minutes of landing in blinding snow being blown by 40 mph winds we finally got to see the runway about 5 seconds before the wheels touched. Guy next to me during the landing - "last week it wasn't this bad and they sent us to Madison".

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