Can you join the ‘Mile High Club’ by yourself?
I’m sure there’s a name for that club if you decide to ‘fly solo‘ on an airplane but a man recently joined another Mile High Club…
…the one where you get stuck in the airplane bathroom and can’t get out.
To be clear, this isn’t a case of someone being too big and then getting wedged in the tiny airplane bathroom, this lands more on the mechanical failure side of things.
A woman went on Reddit recently to recant her and her family’s experience on a Delta flight recently where her husband, let’s call him “Brent” – because that’s his name – got stuck in the airplane bathroom for some 35 minutes.
Here’s her story from Reddit:
So here’s a story for ya’ll…you really can’t make this shit up!!
On a recent Delta Air Lines flight from Salt Lake City to New Orleans, my husband, Brent, got up to use the bathroom, leaving me, my four year old and two year old in our row. No big deal, I knew I’d get my help with our two toddlers back in a jiffy.
After 5 minutes, I wondered what was going on.
Ten minutes went by, and as my 4-year-old asked yet again, “Where’s daddy?” I heard a flight attendant say the word “stuck.”
Something clicked. “Excuse me, is there someone stuck in the bathroom??”
“Yes,” she said. “The door is jammed, and someone is stuck in there.”
“… I think that’s my husband!”
My attention diverted to the rear of the plane, where sure enough, two Delta flight attendants were yanking the bathroom door handle in an attempt to free my trapped husband.
Soon, the two flight attendants (both women) recruited a random male passenger to help try to dislodge the door. He gave it his damnest, but it was to no avail.
It had now been 20 minutes. Brent had been stuck in a 3.5 x 5ft pee and poop box for almost a half hour.
Next up to try his luck, and I kid you not, was THE PILOT. Don’t ask me who was flying the plane LOL. I think they may have needed his permission to potentially damage the door to get Brent out. The pilot was really giving it is all, as you can see in the videos. But it wasn’t until Brent kicked the hell out of the door while the pilot was pulling as hard as possible that Brent finally made his escape.
Checked my watch…35 minutes trapped in a Delta bathroom.
Delta Air Lines asked that I wouldn’t share the videos a fellow passenger took for me on social media (I couldn’t leave my kids in their seats alone to take my own pictures/videos).
But customer service wouldn’t even refund our, as you can imagine, terrible flights.
So…here we are.
At least it wasn’t an exterior door blowing off the plane in mid flight which apparently is en vogue these days – but Delta might want to put check to see if bathroom door sticks on their pre-flight To-Do list and, while they’re at it, add check customer service – which also seems to be locked in the uptight position.
[Reddit]
