My Plane flew through lightning

just got in from a flight from DFW. We flew through the lightning storm that passed through Chicago tonight. The guy in the seat in front of us was rambling the whole flight about nostradamus and cooking what a whacko. The lady behind us was accusing the flight attendant of lying by saying to her, "liar liar pants on fire god will judge you in the afterlife" that will be the last time I fly out of Texas the plane was loaded with nuts. The flight was scary as hell though I thought I was in poltergeist someone pinch me so I know I am alive.

must be like living in hell...pinch your alive brohas.

I thought some old lady was going to lead me to the light. I was freaked out the whole way home.

I live north of you in Oklahoma... I'm surrounded by FReeps and Ultra-Religious Zealot Creeps everyday.

There was a massive weather front and a freak snowstorm over the east coast. When the wheels touched down at Logan, the whole plane (and it was a 747) broke out into applause and cheers.

I guess the fundy count in Denver isn't nearly as high as it is in Texas. I don't recall any waving arms or speaking in tongues.

Sorry to hear about your flight from Hell. It's a good thing you didn't fly through the Bermuda Triangle, I hate to think of you spending an eternity in another reality with that bunch of nuts.

out of the guy in front. Our flight was nine hours long.

That's just torturous under those conditions!

I fly a much slower plane and routinely make that trip in 3.
Sorry not buying your tale.

we boarded at two thirty went to the runway and were grounded it was the supposed to leave at 3...we taxied to the runway then taxied back..for more fuel they said then we sat until 6 on the plane to be cleared from chicago. the plane was an md80 also known as a super 80. We were in a holding pattern for an hour over indianapolis. We flew slow because of the bottleneck at ord. believe it if you want I was there and finally in the terminal at 10.

so it seemed like you were saying it was a 9 hour "flight"...6 of which were just delays. I didn't have to fly today so wasn't watching the wx & traf.

wouldnt wish it on anybody wierdest flight I have ever had.

I replied to you in regards to the "religious issue" here on DU.

and you are absolutely, and sadly, correct.

like the one that scared the pants off William Shatner in the old Twilight Zone episode? I hate it when they leer through the window like that.

I love that episode -- somehow John Lithgow just was not as convincing as ol' Bill Shatner.

thats it the gremlin on the wing...exactly what I went through tongiht if I saw that movie right now I think I would shart my pants.

it was kinda scary, but also kinda cool- looking out the window at the lightning flashes and the odd-coloured clouds(it was night-time)- it was like being on star trek and flying into a nebula to evade the borg or something- at one point the plane dropped a hundred feet or so- people and stuff were flying all over the cabin- people screaming, crying, praying...and then it was over, the rest of the flight, and the landing were smooth as silk...and nobody was seriously injured.

sometimes i feel like everyone I see is good looking.
sometimes I feel like they're some B grade actors like the maintenance men on the odd couple
it's just weird. You hit a weird one.

its the whole time continuim things as well..they grounded all airtraffic from the storm today we sat on the runway for at least five hours. They would not let us exit the plane. We were being held hostage.

My broom flies through lightening all the time. :evilgrin:

I would have been a nervous wreck! I have had a few really bumpy flights, but no real reason to 'fear' flying the way I do. What I find interesting is that you cannot even say the word "bomb" in an airport, but there are no rules for babbling on a two-hour turbulence ridden flight about CRASHING! I was flying to some place and the ENTIRE ride was like being on a damn roller coaster and the asshole behind me kept yakking about which part of the plane would come off first. Asking, out loud, how painful would it be to die in a plane crash?! WTF?!? I understand people deal with stress in different ways. The only way I could get over listening to this asshole's musings was to fantasize about beating the fuck out of her with the now defunct ashtray in my seat arm. The idea that I could do something like that with a little ashtray was pretty funny to me, so I started to giggle, then laugh. I soon realized I was laughing out loud (not too loud), and people were looking at me! :blush: But, we made it.

Anyone remember the Twilight Zone Movie that came out in 1983? Remember the story where the guy played by John Lithgow saw the demonic man-creature attacking the jet engines during the flight through the storm?

Ambulance Driver: So, you had a pretty big scare up there, huh?
John Valentine: Oh yeah!
Ambulance Driver: You wanna see something really scary?

...into O'Hare in Chicago and we also flew into a major thunderstorm. The plane started bucking and bouncing all over the place almost immediately. At that point, the pilot not only told us to fasten our seatbelts, but he also told the flight attendants to take their seats and buckle up. I've never heard a pilot say that before or since that particular flight. Lightning actually struck our plane which seemed to light up the sky around us as well as the interior of the plane.

It was a wild ride, not one that I ever want to repeat.

...south for as far as I could see. Believe me, I would have preferred "around" if that had been a viable choice.

Few things are more scary than the pilot coming on and saying,"flight attendants, take your seats NOW!" I have been on TWO flights like that. I am sure you can tell which planes they were that I was on...look for an aisle seat with embedded fingerprints! They are probably mine!

PS: I left my prints on the armrests, too.

Gawd, nothing like coming "this close" to feel really alive.....

guess that's one of the reasons I'm not so crazy about flying. The only place I'm willing to fly now is to Europe where I've never been-YET-but I will get there one of these days!

I really think that train travel is what this country needs instead of the Airlines. They gotta keep Amtrak alive!

It going to be awhile before I get into a plane.

I don't like flying, so I really empathize when someone has a bad time -- nothing worse than being afraid. If it weren't for xanax, I wouldn't fly at all.

Damn, what freaks!

may have noticed a burning smell..."

This really happened. Turns out there was a fire in the electrical system and they were "keeping an eye on it" because they "couldn't reach it."

Very reassuring, NOT. So, we are 1/3 of the way over the Pacific when this happens en route to Japan. I looked around the cabin and the mostly Japanese group of passengers were continuing to read, sleep or listen to music.

Oh shit.. Am I the only one freaking out!??

Five minutes later the movie suddenly stops and the captain comes on and says, yes, the fire is in the entertainment system wiring. Still no reaction from my fellow travelers riding along with me at five miles over open water.

Okayyyyy.... the overhead reading lights flicker and go out and I am like FUCK THIS. "Excuse me." I got up, went to the bathroom and started to recall the Hail Mary I hadn't said since Sunday school. Really.

I went back to my seat to await my fate. Then the captain comes on and says that we are diverting for an emergency landing in Anchorage.

White-knuckle flight? More like a total nightmare. I still was freaked out when the captain came on for a final time and said "those of you in window seats will see a cloud or mist coming from the wings...we need to dump fuel for the landing." I knew it was necessary but I wasn't happy to hear about it.

Could you believe after three hours of maintenance we got back on the same plane to continue our trip across the Pacific?

I used to like flying.