Hello and welcome back to the Most Amazing Channel on the Internet.
I am your host, Rebecca Felgate and today we are talking about the Top 10 Scary In Flight
Announcements.
I actually scripted this a few days before filming it and I had a really horrible dream
I was in a plane crash…I was strapped in and the plane started falling backwards…
This is what I put myself through for you.
Hands up if you are slightly afraid of flying?
MMhmm..
Me too.
I am not about to alleviate any of your fears with this video…that being said, nobody
on any of these flights died…so..hurrah!
10 - 50/50 Engine Failure On a flight from Malaga, Spain to Bristol,
UK In 2017, a pilot announced that there was only a 50 50 percent chance of the engines
working and asked passengers to deliver a show of hands to see who wanted to continue
with the flight and who wanted to leave.
Passenger Terri Hill said “At this point there was a bit of a mutiny on the plane,
an awful lot of shouting and people crying, and demanding to get off.”
9 - Prepare for a Crash Landing British News Publication, The Telegraph asked
readers to write in their scariest plane experiences and one contributor told the following pretty
scary story.
On a flight from Paris to Dublin, flight crew accidentally played a pre-recorded announcement
that said “adopt the brace position and prepare for a crash landing.
There was a small amount of chaos, but luckily they were able to announce the mistake.
It must have just been a few seconds, but imagine the sheer panic you would feel.
8 - I Will Do My Best To Land The Plane Could you… would that be alright?
In another article on the Telegraph, one traveller wrote in about their experience flying in
a storm across India.
They said their plane began to roll before dropping hundreds of feet.
The pilot first gave an announcement in Hindi, and then said this in English: Ladies and
gentlemen the storm is very bad.
I will do my best to land the plane.
It turns out his English wasn’t too great and he forgot the words “on time” at the
end.
I would be crying in my seat if I heard that.
7 - We Don’t Want To Die No, we do not.
When a flight attendant says we don’t want to die whilst on a flight…you might be a
bit freaked out…if you fancy a quick understatement.
Apparently this is what happened on a Ryan Air Flight in 2016.
Basically passengers on a flight bound for Dublin were frustrated at an 8 hour delay.
As the plane sat on the tarmac in Glasgow.
Over the speaker , a crew member said: The captain cannot take off when we have ice on
the wings, and we don’t want to die.
Like….totally fair though.
A clip of the chaos that then ensued was uploaded to youtube.
Ryanair said: “We will be speaking to the crew member involved and apologise for the
regrettable comment she made in the heat of the moment”.
6 - A Quick Watery Grave In 2014, passengers were totally traumatised
when a Monarch airline pilot told passengers the reason for the 24 hour delay in Tobago
they had just experienced was because of a problem with reverse thrusters, which he said
could have led to a quick watery grave.
The pilot likened the issue to a crash in 1991 that killed 213 people.
Thanks chap, comforting to know.
Monarch Airlines admitted that the captain of flight MON368 used the wrong choice of
words.
Shortly after the flight took off, the piolet then announced that smoke had filled the cockpit
and the plane was landing in Barbados.
Apparently that was a separate issue, but blimey I would have cried.
Okay, last one from the trusty Telegraph article, we have
Look at that missile somebody just fired at us at number 5.
How is this only number 5…well…
I guess you’ll see!
A contributor to the Telegraph wrote that they were on a flight over an African state
and the pilot announced in a very blase way over the tannoy – 'Ladies and gentlemen
if you look over our starboard wing you can see trail of obsolete Russian Strela 3 that
somebody just fired on us'."
Right…so….we’re literally under siege.
Great.
4 - The Plane is On Fire On a flight to Helsinki, the Pilot made an
announcement in Finnish that made all passengers that spoke the language sit up abruptly.
A pair travelling on the flight for business were confused, until a monosyllabic English
announcement came.
What did it say?
“Ladies and gentlemen, we shall be making an unscheduled landing and steep approach
to Tampere airport, the plane is on fire, thank you.”
Great.
As the pair lived to tell the tale and write the story in the comment section of a guardian
article, I assume all’s well that ends well.
3 - We’re Going Down In 2013 the pilot of a Boeing 737 terrified
passengers when he told them they were going down.
The Southwest Airlines plane was flying from Tampa to Raleigh Durham international.
The Pilot came over the loudspeaker and was heard saying “we’re in trouble, we’re
going down.”
Passenger Shelley Wills told CNN that a woman next to her was clutching her chest like she
was about to have a heart attack.
She even text her daughter to say she loved her and that the plane was going down.
The plane sharply dived as it approached its decent to RDU, but luckily it managed to land
safely.
Southwest Airlines suggested the pilot may have accidentally trigger the PA system.
Either way…terrifying.
2 - The Engines Have Died…I Hope You Aren’t In Too Much Distress
On a British Airways flight from London to Auckland in June 1982, the aircraft experienced
a catastrophic failure.
Volcanic ash caused poor visibility to the pilot, buttttt also took out all four engines.
This is verbatim the announcement the pilot made: Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain
speaking.
We have a small problem.
All four engines have stopped.
We are doing our damnedest to get them going again.
I trust you are not in too much distress.
RIGHT.
All f….okay. by some miracle, the flight and all 263 people on board landed safely
in Jakarta.
Finally, at number one, arguably the worst thing a flight attendant or pilot could say
whilst in a flight…the scariest in flight announcement, we have
1 - Pray Urrrrm.
Doesn’t sound great does it.
So in June 2017 a plane violently shook after taking off from Perth and flying on route
to Malaysia.
The Air Asia A330 experienced a quote un quote technical issue that made the whole thing
dramatically shake.
In an announcement to the passengers, the pilot told people on board to pray.
He also said he was scared and everyones survival depends on the passengers cooperation.
There is footage of the plane shaking shot on a passengers phone…and to be honest…
I am not religious… but I am with the pilot here!
Luckily the pilot did a fantastic job and landed
the plane.