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Rightly or wrongly, I found the following article highly amusing:

 

Panic broke out on a flight to Paris when the cabin crew played an emergency landing announcement by mistake.

 

Passengers on the Aer Lingus flight from Dublin to Paris began shouting out and crying as they thought their plane was about to ditch.

 

The drama followed an initial announcement made in English, telling passengers to return to their seats because of turbulence.

 

But then the crew accidentally played out a recorded emergency landing warning in French as the plane headed south over the Irish Sea.

 

Around 70 French passengers were reported to be "freaked out" on hearing the warning.

 

One English-speaking passenger said: "The French man sleeping next to me woke up and looked very startled.

 

"He then translated what had been said, that the plane was about to make an emergency landing and to await instructions from the pilot.

 

"I got quite alarmed. The woman behind me was crying. All the French totally freaked out."

 

The plane was just 20 minutes into its flight to Paris when the bungled announcement was broadcast.

 

The Irish airline's cabin crew quickly realised their mistake and swiftly apologised in French.

 

An airline spokesman said: "There was a malfunction of the public address system and we apologise to our passengers."

 

"This sort of thing happens very rarely."

 

Link: http://uk.news.yahoo.com/5/20090914/twl-plane-crash-warning-boob-panics-pass-3fd0ae9.html

 

I'm not sure which I found funnier the fact that it was an Irish cabin crew, or that the announcement was in French and thus mainly effected the French passengers.

 

And before anyone mentions it, no I am not a xenophobe and most probably have far more foreign friends than the vast majority of users on here, including Irish and French ones!

 

Anyway, does anyone on here have any funny 'in-flight' stories? (Even if you didn't think they were funny at the time.)

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Anyway, does anyone on here have any funny 'in-flight' stories? (Even if you didn't think they were funny at the time.)

 

My other half is senior cabin crew for a transatlantic airline. I hear loads of stories about what goes on and this one does make me chuckle.

 

They had a z-list celeb who said "Do you know who I am?".

 

This was followed by this announcement:

"Attention all passengers. We have a passenger seated in 34K who doesn't known who they are. If anyone can offer assistance with this, please make yourself know to cabin crew."

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Rightly or wrongly, I found the following article highly amusing:

 

Panic broke out on a flight to Paris when the cabin crew played an emergency landing announcement by mistake.

 

Passengers on the Aer Lingus flight from Dublin to Paris began shouting out and crying as they thought their plane was about to ditch.

 

The drama followed an initial announcement made in English, telling passengers to return to their seats because of turbulence.

 

But then the crew accidentally played out a recorded emergency landing warning in French as the plane headed south over the Irish Sea.

 

Around 70 French passengers were reported to be "freaked out" on hearing the warning.

 

One English-speaking passenger said: "The French man sleeping next to me woke up and looked very startled.

 

"He then translated what had been said, that the plane was about to make an emergency landing and to await instructions from the pilot.

 

"I got quite alarmed. The woman behind me was crying. All the French totally freaked out."

 

The plane was just 20 minutes into its flight to Paris when the bungled announcement was broadcast.

 

The Irish airline's cabin crew quickly realised their mistake and swiftly apologised in French.

 

An airline spokesman said: "There was a malfunction of the public address system and we apologise to our passengers."

 

"This sort of thing happens very rarely."

 

Link: http://uk.news.yahoo.com/5/20090914/twl-plane-crash-warning-boob-panics-pass-3fd0ae9.html

 

I'm not sure which I found funnier the fact that it was an Irish cabin crew, or that the announcement was in French and thus mainly effected the French passengers.

 

And before anyone mentions it, no I am not a xenophobe and most probably have far more foreign friends than the vast majority of users on here, including Irish and French ones!

 

Anyway, does anyone on here have any funny 'in-flight' stories? (Even if you didn't think they were funny at the time.)

 

 

Well I have 300 friends on facebook, and some of them are not even white!

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Had a pilot once announce that "Good morning ladies and gentleman, I'm particularly excited to be with you as it's my very first flight...........................this morning"

 

ho ho ho, there's a reason he's a pilot and not a ****ing comedian.

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My other half is senior cabin crew for a transatlantic airline. I hear loads of stories about what goes on and this one does make me chuckle.

 

They had a z-list celeb who said "Do you know who I am?".

 

This was followed by this announcement:

"Attention all passengers. We have a passenger seated in 34K who doesn't know who they are. If anyone can offer assistance with this, please make yourself know to cabin crew."

 

Hahahaha that's quality.

 

I swear once I had a pilot called Michael Jackson. I found it fairly amusing, even though it's not very funny at all.

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Johnny Bognor

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Some of the train drivers on the Piccadilly line think they are airline pilots and make their announcements in 'pilot stylee'.

It's quite funny at times when the are giving us weather reports for example.

 

 

There was one recently in the news where the train driver announced:

"Good morning ladies and gentlemen. I have some bad news and some good news. The bad news is that the engine's broken. The good news is that you are not on a 747."

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Hahahaha that's quality.

 

There is another funny story (probably more funny if you know the person), but here goes.....

 

Cabin Crew used to smoke on the stairs to the rear door many moons ago. A friend was havng a crafty ciggie on the platform at the top of the stairs when the driver of the moving stairs drove off. She was left at the top of the stairs (hanging on for dear life) until it got back to the terminal.

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Some of the train drivers on the Piccadilly line think they are airline pilots and make their announcements in 'pilot stylee'.

It's quite funny at times when the are giving us weather reports for example.

 

I had a good one on H&C Line going Westbound towards Paddington. They were terminating the train at Edgware Road so he said "We are going to play a little game when we get to Egware Road, we're all going to get off the train and walk to the train at platform 2. I'll be getting on that one as well, so I won't leave you behind." He did this a couple of times.

 

Anyway, everyone gets to Edgware Road and trudges over to platform 2. A couple of minutes later. "Is everyone on the train?" A few people mumble "yeh". Then from the driver, "I CAN'T HEAR YOU! Is everyone on the train?!!"

 

Crazy.

 

p.s. I didn't miss the train, so I suppose he did his job.

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Im struggling to see how you find an Irish cabin crew, on an Irish airline, funny?

 

I remember a story about an Oirish captain on his first approach to heathrow, amazed at how short the runway was, then his first engineer comments at how bloody wide it is.

 

Soem of my best friends are Irish, so I can't be racist, can I?

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Was on an Emirates flight from Beirut back to Dubai, It had a stop over in Larnaca.

 

I had a seat in an emergency exit and for take off there were two Emirates Girls crew sitting facing me in the jump seats, one was going out with a mate of mine

 

After sitting around an hour we started to taxi. The chick I didn't know starts the whole safety briefing, I wink at the one I did know...

 

The chick gets to the bit - If there's anything I or any memeber of our crew can do for you to make your flight more enjoyable please let us know.... at which point I say - oh, that's nice, I'll have a BJ then.

 

Which was picked up by the PA mike, as were the fits of hysterical giggles as she tried desperately to finish the rest of the announcement.

 

Well, at least I got a glass of champers from 1st class sent back to me afterwards. Poor lass was red as a beetroot all the way back as all the expats on board kept pinging the call buttons saying "I say any chance of joing the queue"

 

(ps this was a few years ago before PC land was invented)

 

and of course, she was Oirish

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