25 Flight Attendants Talk About Their Most Obnoxious Passengers

One lady had the audacity to birth her child on my plane yesterday.

Former FA here. We had a school group of young children sitting in the front of the plane. On takeoff one little boy leaned over into the aisle and threw up. The puke rolled and splashed down the aisle almost all the way to the back galley. Another time on approach to Denver we were struck by lightening. It was the loudest sound I’ve ever heard on a flight. I was on a Boeing 727 with a FA friend on the back jumpseat and all passengers turned to look at us. We were hugging each other and crying terrified which, as it turns out, only makes the passenger panic 1000xs worse. Plane was fine and we landed safely.

Former FA. Grossest story I have is someone smeared shit all over one of the bathrooms during a 14 hour flight to China. It smelled putrid. We put up an out of order sign, but then a couple hours later someone had gone in and cleaned it up! We figured it was a kid and one of the parents had snuck in after.

There was a woman who, interested in retrieving a souvenir from her vacation, packed a conch shell in her carry on luggage. Unbeknownst to her however there was still a conch living in it and the smell was unbearable. The woman and her carry on were removed from the flight.

Can’t 100% validate (as it was a story my grandpa told me about my grandma’s flight attendant days), but about 40 years ago, she had a passenger bring on a large garment bag which they later discovered had a dead body in it when it fell and partially unzipped. It was a very tiny woman’s body that was being brought back for a funeral, but the family couldn’t afford to send it a different way. I can’t even imagine.

25 Flight Attendants Talk About Their Most Obnoxious Passengers

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Written by Laura McNairy