Comments on: What Would you Do?

By: Becca

Becca — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 08:53:56 +0000

I actually had a similar, but not as drastic, situation a few months ago flying home from a wedding back east. The woman behind me was convinced the two men sitting next to her were going to highjack the plane and kill us all. I heard things like this the whole flight: “I don’t care if you’re going to kill us all just let me call my husband first and tell him I love him.”; “Please just tell me how you’re going to do it so I’m ready when it happens.”; “I know you’re lying to me, you’re not really a pastor, you’re going to kill me.” And when we were on the ground she was on the phone with her husband asking “If they take me away when I get off this plane will you call around and find out where I am and come visit me?” (Referring to a mental hospital I believe) Poor thing was on a ton of drugs and wasn’t completely there. Not to mention she was totally freaked out and was convinced she was going to die.

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 02:02:55 +0000

I’d tell the captain to play “Snakes On A Plane.”

By: Crystal Renaud

Crystal Renaud — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 06:27:13 +0000

i’d have gone to the bathroom and locked myself in. until we landed.

By: Caleb

Caleb — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 05:18:30 +0000

pulled this up on my computer:

http://boortz.com/mp3/archive/countdown.swf

AHAHAHAH!!!!!!!

-cD

By: loswhit

loswhit — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 18:48:15 +0000

I would have been curled up in a fetal position sucking my thumb

By: Texas in Africa

Texas in Africa — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 18:28:28 +0000

So if you click over to the YouTube page, it explains that this guy had a panic attack on an Air Canada flight to London.

Obviously this had been going on for awhile because the passengers seemed to have gotten used to it. Those guys do seem to know him, but my question is, if they expected him to react in such a manner (or even knew it was a possibility), then why didn’t they have some sedatives or something.

Crazy. And that would make for an even longer flight than my worst ever: a nine-hour Warsaw-New York LOT Polish Airlines flight during which I was seated in the middle of eight unaccompanied, Polish-American minors who had spent the summer with their grandparents on the Baltic Sea coast and who switched between Polish and English mid-sentence without realizing what they were doing. There were times I wanted someone to restrain some of them…

By: Rachel

Rachel — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 18:25:31 +0000

Chad…haha. Sounds about right to me.

That looks like an international flight, so if I were someone in authority on that flight, I’d go the route of a sedative/tranquilizer, if it were available. A shot in the leg, just like the movies. Otherwise it would be a very long plane ride. Those guys can only hold him for so long. Not sure what the backstory is though, so it’s hard to say.

By: Chris Baker

Chris Baker — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 18:04:29 +0000

Make me wonder where the flight crew was also….it seemed that there was no one from the flight crew assisting the matter either. I could be wrong.

By: Chad Jarnagin

Chad Jarnagin — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 17:50:18 +0000

1. push pause my ipod

2. pray for him

3. push play on my ipod

4. probably go to a foo fighters tune (Hero, or Pretender maybe)

5. turn up volume a few clicks

6. post a blog about the experience

By: CJ

CJ — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 17:43:24 +0000

Wow that’s crazy! I’m not sure what I’d do. As I was watching this though a scene from that movie Airplane came to mind.

http://cjalvarado.com/?p=334