Trapped on a plane

"Just Jeepin'" (macintux)
06/24/2019 at 14:29 • Filed to: Planelopnik

At first her reaction seemed a bit overboard, but reading through this I began to see how traumatic it could be. School bus drivers and flight attendants simply can’t keep doing this.

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DISCUSSION (16)

For Sweden > Just Jeepin'
06/24/2019 at 14:37

If they leave you alone on a plane, you can keep the plane. Thems the rules.

CaptDale - is secretly British > Just Jeepin'
06/24/2019 at 14:37

I don’t know. Sounds kind of fun to me. Raid the snacks and liquor and wait for help eventually.

This is what we'll show whenever you publish anything on Kinja: > Just Jeepin'
06/24/2019 at 14:40

I can imagine waking up a little panic’d under the circumstance. I could see how s ubsequent dark- room wakeups might have a way of spiking the heart rate after that experience as well.

I probably would have di ck ed around in the cockpit a bit after finding the flashlight though. One of those buttons has just got to do something cool... and if not, at least the pre flight checklist is probably gonna be an in convenience with everything set at random. Tit for tat and all that.

facw > Just Jeepin'
06/24/2019 at 14:44

Yeah, I would think this would be kind of cool, though I can totally see how some people might be freaked about it. It does sound a bit like she’s hoping for a big payout, but who knows...

Regardless I totally would have gone in the cockpit and tried to play with everything. Opening the door seems like it could be interesting, all the more so if I could figure out how to arm it so it deployed the slide.

Really sloppy on behalf of the crew though, how hard is it to do a walk down the aisle before leaving?

facw > This is what we'll show whenever you publish anything on Kinja:
06/24/2019 at 14:54

Yep, the next flight crew would have had to double check everything had I been on board because you know I would have flipped every switch, fiddled with every dial, and moved every control “trying to work the radio” (at some point I would have actually tried to work the radio, and maybe set the transponder to 7700, but there are other things I would no doubt mess with first.)

My X-type is too a real Jaguar > Just Jeepin'
06/24/2019 at 14:55

Was she flying with this guy?

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > Just Jeepin'
06/24/2019 at 15:00

She said she had anxiety disorder , so it must have been terrifying for her. I would just post up with the drink cart and wait for the next days crew to pull the jet to a gate.

DipodomysDeserti > Just Jeepin'
06/24/2019 at 15:13

My uncle once fell asleep on a bus in NYC and woke up alone at the bus depot.

The Ghost of Oppo > Just Jeepin'
06/24/2019 at 15:16

If I wake up alone in a plane, does that mean I own it now?

Edit: shit I see for Sweden already made the same joke

Manwich - now Keto-Friendly > Just Jeepin'
06/24/2019 at 16:22

Yeah... I heard about this too.

But is it truly a ‘traumatic’ thing? I mean... it’s something to have cause for concern. And it’s definitely a serious inconvenience. And airline staff were definitely negligent.

But ‘traumatic’?

If she calls this ‘traumatic’, I imagine she’d completely fall apart if something really serious happened to her like seeing someone she knows get killed... which is what happened to my mother during WW2.

Or have your spouse take off with the kids and leave a letter on the kitchen counter where they accuse you of shit that you didn’t do... and you have no idea where your kids are for days... which is what I experienced.

If something like this happened to me, I would try to see if I could get out of the plane myself by opening the door and activating that emergency slide thingy and/or whip out my phone and make a few calls to Air Canada, airport security and friends/family.

I think there’s also a real possibility that she’s exaggerating her ‘trauma’ so she can get a nice payoff from the airline.

I find shit like that is far too common these days.

Just Jeepin' > Manwich - now Keto-Friendly
06/24/2019 at 16:58

I dislike playing the comparison game. Everyone is different. And not knowing how long you’ll be entirely alone in a dark unfamiliar place is jarring at the least, no matter how much bravado I see in the thread.

I have a fear of a few weird things. If I woke up and found myself at the bottom of an entirely empty swimming pool in the dark , for example, with no obvious way out, I’d be freaked out. I hate the underside of boats, of docks, and empty swimming pools. Don’t ask me why, I just do.

Just describing it gives me the shudders.

This is what we'll show whenever you publish anything on Kinja: > Manwich - now Keto-Friendly
06/24/2019 at 19:07

Supposedly her phone was dead. No way to call or text , no immediate way to illuminate her surroundings, presumably pitch black inside. I t co uld absolutely be worse, but I could see how it could give someone lasting anxiety.

Manwich - now Keto-Friendly > This is what we'll show whenever you publish anything on Kinja:
06/24/2019 at 19:17

In the linked article it stated:

“Grabbing her phone, O’Brien exchanged frantic text messages with Noel-Dale, who had been waiting for her friend to check in after landing, CTV News reported.”

“ O’Brien tried to FaceTime Noel-Dale, but her phone died mid-call.”

So clearly her phone wasn’t dead at first. But instead of calling 911, she decides to text her friend and then Facetime her friend instead?

?!?!?

This is what we'll show whenever you publish anything on Kinja: > Manwich - now Keto-Friendly
06/24/2019 at 19:27

This is interesting. I did not click the above link, but the article I read yesterday stated her phone was dead when she awoke. Clearly some reporting inconsistencies there. If her phone worked then yes, much less dramatic of a situation.

LastFirstMI is my name > Just Jeepin'
06/25/2019 at 00:33

File this under “Sh!t people do on Ambien”

pip bip - choose Corrour > Just Jeepin'
06/25/2019 at 04:28

shouldn’t have fallen asleep then :P

captain of aircraft needs a good kicking!

so clearly it wasn’t cleaned then either