"We're crashing, we're crashing, we're crashing!"

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'Stay Calm... We're All Gonna Die!'

Virgin Atlantic has launched an investigation into claims a flight attendant aboard a flight from London-Gatwick to Las Vegas earlier this week panicked when the Boeing 747 hit severe turbulence.

The aircraft was hit by storms and plummeted thousands of feet within seconds, hurling one man to the ceiling and causing general disarray onboard the jumbo jet. According to The Independent, however, passengers were mostly calm... until the flight attendant reportedly began to, well, freak out.

"We're crashing, we're crashing, we're crashing!" the flight attendant repeatedly shouted -- sending passengers into a frenzy.

"I turned round to look at our hostess for reassurance and she screamed: 'We're crashing, we're crashing, we're crashing!' passenger Claire Daley told the London paper. "And I just thought: 'It's over; if an air hostess is telling us we are crashing'. I really thought we were crashing." The flight attendant reportedly screamed every time the plane dipped -- and when she screamed, all the passengers in the back of the plane joined her. "It was terrifying. I was almost hyperventilating," said Daley. "I was sobbing -- I thought we weren't going to make it."

http://www.aero-news.net/index.cfm?ContentBlockID=3ae2c5ff-d566-4cb3-b57e-f1532a6307b1

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I feel for those people like you wouldn't believe. Holy fuck that must've been terrifying. Absolutely terrifying. God bless em all.

And lady? :wtf:

I don't think I could be calm in similar circumstances, but I also am doing everyone else on the planet a favor and would never be a stewardess or pilot.
Once the turbulence passed, I can only imagine what the rest of that ride was like!

Except for takeoff I'm not that nervous flying. But if the plane makes a weird noise or there's unusally heavy turbulance, I always look at the flight attendants. If they look unconcerned I can relax. This one would have had me screaming for a priest (lapsed Catholics always backslide when they think they're going to die).

And even then I have to have a visit from the drink cart...

I have not flown since 911 because I know just based on my buzzed demeanor they would throw me off the plane...

I have no desire to create terra -- just a complete blotto zone in my own mind, so that I can maintain and not freak the other passengers out when I fly :(

Get me my last rites! I gotta unload a lifetime of sins!! lol

he'd given us wings and chirpy natures etc....

Just as easy to say if God wanted us to fly he would've given us the intellect to understand aerodynamics and build machines capable of us flying in them. Ohhhhhhh, that's rightttttttt he diddddd do that. :)

a young trained flight attendant's panic and nipped the issue in the bud by (?)....using hocus pocus or something

Your argument only holds water if you have direct communication with the Almighty Himself and have been granted the authority to speak the word of God and pass on His will. Since you don't, your rationale above is severely flawed.

I am SO glad I was not on that plane! I am not a good flyer, not terrified but I hate it. That attendent should probably find another job, hopefully she will have to.

a ballast blow out and it fell 20,000 feet before hitting 10K and evening out. I could feel a straight rather smooth descent and was hopeful. You never know how you will be until it happens.

I would have died of fright. There are two things I am afraid of. One is drowning, I am a scuba diver and had one accident with my air supply, scary shit. The other is some kind of strange fear of being blown out of a jet at 30,000 feet. I have no clue where that came from but I really think something like you experienced would just do me in.

If I have bad dreams tonight I can blame you because for once it won't be Bush** that gives them too me. :scared:

surreal, I didn't really get it until a few days later. The 'ballast' thing was probably the hydrolics or something. The ability of the plane to stay stable went out the window and down we came. the little breathing masks fell, my neice and mom crawled into my lap and down we went. But we used to have commercial airplanes in our family and I knew if we got to 10K feet in one piece we would level out, such was the (relatively) smooth fall. *swallow*

but that story still makes me shiver. The "down we went" part.

That scene in Castaway kept me awake for about a week.

I am so glad you were all OK, yikes oh yikes, that really scares me.

I used to work for a commuter airline here and when things were slow the pilots would take us up in their little planes. They were all trick flyers, we would loop and dive but that was WAY different than a large jet in trouble.

I thought ballast was in boats and subs...

Is used to maintain a particular weight in not fully laden aircraft, or to maintain center of gravity of the aircraft, taking into account passenger seating and cargo storage... This relieves the necessity to stagger passenger seating when the aircraft is not full...

They are SUPPOSED to be trained to be the ones onboard who remain calm...in EVERY emergency! Don't tell me she's human. I know that, but flight attendant training is a very involved and intensive routine, and it's done that way to make sure NO attendant ever reacts like that one did! Shame shame on Virgin Atlantic!

And he told me their attendants get the crappiest wages in the industry.

You really do get what you pay for!

I feel bad for her, and all the people she frightened. At least it was a false alarm.

but I have to admit, I am laughing. Too funny.

nevermind."

I totally would have puked.

jeez, they are supposed to train these people, what if they actually were crashing, would her running around like chicken w. head cut off help anything?

she's a flight attendant for shit sakes. News flash . . . she's human.

Shouldn't someone have slapped her. That's what they do in the movies when someone is hysterical.

Sorry, I really do feel for these people, but, it sounds like a scene out of "Airplane"

-Hoot

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Once when on a flight on a DC 10 that kept getting fixed in unscheduled stops in airports along the way, the attendent casually mentioned that "The tens break down all the time. One of these days one of 'em is going to crash."

lol.....i do.....

I always carry a box of dirt to stand in, when I fly the friendly skies.

this is exactly why.

ever since I spent a flight over the Atlantic drinking with a flight attendant, there were about 25 people on the 747, nice 2-1 crew to pax ratio- we all got bumped to Upper Class (yes, that's what virgin calls it) and I talked with two attendants and drank with them the whole flight. fun, but not professional.