Cabin crew of Reddit, what’s the weirdest, most WTF, or borderline NSFW thing you’ve stumbled upon after all the passengers deplaned?
Cabin crew of Reddit, what’s the weirdest, most WTF, or borderline NSFW thing you’ve stumbled upon after all the passengers deplaned?
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A friends husband was the cleanup crew guy for the Denver airport. He found and entire case of bic lighters that were left in the plane. 50 cigarette lighters, full of lighter fluid and packed together for changing pressure. He took them home and we all had lighters for weeks.
Not necessarily what you asked but I think story is good. We had a passenger come up to us mid red-eye flight Reno to Dallas. Another passenger had peed in the isle right next to her. Like stood up and walked 15 feet and peed. Police met the plane and he had no idea what happened, nor did his wife.
My friend found 25k in a bag left on the plane. They returned it and received a thank you card on behalf of the passenger from the company lol.
Years ago, a dirty diaper was left inside one of the seatbacks. Absolutely disgusting.
Someone had ordered a sundae or something, looked like an ice cream cake but served in a cup (based on what remained) and eaten only some of it; the cup was then jammed into the seatback upside down, where it continued to melt and pour all over the carpet. Massive pink stains and sludge everywhere.
Lots of people are fucking slobs, sure, but that one nearly made me look up their name on a flight manifest so I could hate them personally.
I was a baggage handler at a small airport back when i was younger. Used to have to cleanup plane cabins at the end of the day. The other guys favorite joke to play on new guys was to pour some bloody mary mix on a maxi pad and leave in a seat back for one of the other guys to find. Gross. Never found anything else really.
Edit: I also want to say… never check a pet. I don’t even know if they still offer that service, but pets do not do well in the baggage area. And not everyone that works back there gives a shit about your pet.
Before I became a flight attendant I worked in customer service and as a ramp agent at my station. We were the regional for a larger carrier so we did a lot of things ourselves like catering, taking care of missed baggage and even had our own lost and found. Well one day I was watching the lost and found desk and one of our gate agents came in with a laptop. She said she found it at an empty gate, so I had no flight information to go off of. The laptop had no stickers or other identifying information on it so I thought to myself, ‘Hmm I bet if I open it, it will have a lock screen with the owners name.’ So I opened it. But the laptop didn’t open to the lock screen, it opened to the tab the owner had been viewing. Which was a porn site and had a video paused right on a scene where a guy was fisting a girls gaping booty hole. I immediately slammed the laptop shut and since then I have never ever ever opened someone else’s laptop.
I fly for a low cost carrier in Europe. I’ve loads of stories of people leaving weird or random stuff behind but the one that sticks out the most was a fake leg. We were aware of a passenger with a prosthetic leg as PRM agents brought him on board with an ambulift but we would never think he could leave his leg behind.
Not cabin crew, but piloting one night my captain and I heard someone accidentally key up on the ‘guard’ frequency that they needed stations operations to have a gate and biohaz personnel ready for them because a passenger had smeared their shit all over the lavatory. Will never know if it was real or just someone fucking around on the frequency (we occasionally will accidentally forget to switch to operations frequency when making those calls), but gave us a good laugh and hoping that whatever crew had to gate return for that got their schedules cleared and a long overnight out of it lol.
Flying to Sofia, Bulgaria, and a British guy of Indian descent stood up, with a diaper tied together with a safety pin, a hard candy pacifier around his neck and nothing else went to the front of the plane, and then crawled back sucking his thumb.
He was part of a British stag-do (bachelor party) and his friends kept shouting “Go Go-pal! (Gopal). Once on the ground, the police collected him and took him away.
Edit. 1. Gopal on his way back exposed himself to a some Bulgarian women who complained to my staff, and we took the necessary actions.
way more diapers in this thread than i expected
Not weird or WTF, but, my grandpa worked for TWA cleaning planes and he’d collect (hoard) items left behind. He had boxes of reading glasses, nail clippers, pens, matches, etc. The best thing he ever found was a travel case with maybe 10 NES games that he gave to my sister and I. This was a HUGE deal in 1989.
before I scroll through, I predict A LOT of poop.
Edit: a lot less poo than I expected, even for 3 hours in…
A while back, I (pilot) was collecting an aircraft and asked the inbound crew how their flight down was. She responded that it was pretty normal except she had to reprimand a couple for licking each other’s nipples. She didn’t even seem that fazed by it.
I got upgraded on a 2 hour flight awhile back. I’m sitting across the aisle from a mom and her two young sons when I hear, “mom, I have to go poop.” Keep in mind we’re like 8 rows from the closest bathroom. But nah, instead of escorting her child to the bathroom, she had him stand up in between the seat and the seat back in front of him while she cupped her hands under his ass. That kid shit into her hands. Why.
A friend of mine who used to work as a flight attendant walked in to clean the cabin and found a used condom on the floor near the last row. Apparently apparently someone thought the plane was a love hotel and I guess someone joined the mile-high club and just left the receipt.
Poop on a chair. Figured out it was an older gentleman. We tried to see if he had another flight so we could let him know, but unfortunately (fortunately?) he only had our flight. Poor guy had no idea
Not an airline attendant, but a friend of one who I reached out to to ask the question. Her answer: “Bloody dildo. Don’t want to know where or when it was used, but needless to say we all walked on by and notified the cleaners they’d need a biohazard bag, lol. And what’s worse…we found the blood first.”
Not a cabin crew person, but I was on a flight from Toronto to Orlando pre 9/11 and the lady beside me pulled out this cheese grater thing and proceeded to spend 2 hours grinding down her feet. Just piles of flakes of skin all over the floor and seat and she would step in it and smear it around. She was trimming her nails and they were shooting all over. It was fucked. The guy on the other side of the aisle told her to stop but “I have to get my feet ready for the beach”.
She only stopped after being repeatedly asked by the steward to stop and clean up her mess. Which she never cleaned up and then argued with them the whole off boarding. Nothing like having to step over flakes of feet and toenails when getting off.
People really suck. I was on a plane the other day and got served chicken and rice. I dropped a few grains of rice on the ground while eating so I picked them all up and threw them away.
At the end of the flight walking past empty spaces you see what kind of mess other people just leave behind, absolutely disgusting. Please clean your own mess people.
Not flight crew – when I was once deplaning in Manila , the passenger in the seat infront of me left a pamphlet on his seat advertising underage sex and pedophilia.
This isn’t going to go over well, but flying into LGA with a group of Hasidic Jews is always challenging. They’re ultra needy and always leave the cabin absolutely destroyed by trash and food waste. It’s as if they’ve never been taught to be respectful and clean up after themselves. The planes frequently need extra cleaning between flights, and that causes delays.
Nine times out of ten it’s an electric razor, but every once in a while…
it’s a dildo. Of course it’s company policy never to, imply ownership in the event of a dildo… always use the indefinite article a dildo, never your dildo.
On a small, regional airline; I was asked by a passenger in the terminal to go and retrieve his leg from the overhead compartment. Artificial leg (from the shin down) in a small duffel bag.