Nightmare On The Runway As Plane Gets Delayed For Hours
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This is officially my worst nightmare.
When you need to book a flight, you usually go for an airline you trust. Maybe one you’ve flown before and didn’t have any major issues with. Often people will pay a little more for such peace of mind.
On the other hand, those of us who buy tickets on the cheap know that we can’t really complain when something goes wrong in the tin can we chose to fly in. But when you pay for a ticket on a flight like Delta Airlines, you expect things to go smoothly. Well, that’s not what happened for passengers on Delta flight 555 in Las Vegas yesterday.
Nightmare on the runway.
The flight, which was bound for Atlanta, was delayed for over four hours on the runway at Harry Reid International Airport. While stuck on the tarmac, the temperatures gradually increased inside the cabin. Local weather apps show it was about 110 outside at 1:40pm, when the flight was scheduled to depart. The temperature inside the cabin rose to 111 degrees.
One passenger, Krista Garvin, gave an account of what she saw during this hellish four hours on board. She said that after two hours of the delay is when people started to get visibly ill, fox5vegas.com reported. Which included people looking faint, passing out, or throwing up on board. Garvin also reported that there were multiple first responders outside the plane, including ambulances and fire trucks.
What the airport had to say about the ordeal.
Harry Reid airport gave a statement about the event, only confirming the arrival of first responders. They didn’t give any explanation for the plane delay or the lack of temperature control inside, fox5vegas.com reported.
According to the same report, the airline gave passengers the opportunity to get off the plane, but warned them that there wouldn’t be another flight out to Atlanta for several days. After four hours of delay, Delta finally evacuated the passengers, some on stretchers. The airline offered a flight the following morning, but it ended up canceled as well.
Your Airplane Seatback Pocket Is Full Of Germs
As if we weren’t already aware of the germs, and just general yuck, on airplanes, the Covid virus made us even more aware.
Trying to stay healthy on flights has always been an issue for travelers. We’re not only keeping Purell in our carry-on bags now, but we’re disinfecting every other area on the plane from potential germs!
According to flight attendants, and Travel and Leisure magazine, there’s one thing that most travelers often ignore: the seat-back pocket.
A Reddit user and long-haul flight attendant, posted on an r/AskReddit thread about some of most germ filled places you can find on an airplane. “I ALWAYS recommend you never, ever, ever, EVER use or put anything in the seat pocket.”
Make Sure Your Seatback Pocket is Germ Free!
They are cleared of trash, but are never ‘cleaned’,” the user wrote. Eww.
They went on to talk about the numerous gross things cleaning crews have found while clearing the plane: dirty tissues, air sickness bags (not empty ones), underwear socks, chewed gum, half sucked candy, apple cores, orange peels… The list goes on and on.
Think about it for a minute: A passenger is hacking into a wad of tissues and instead of immediately throwing them out – because they’re in the window seat, and don’t want to get out – they just shove them in the seat-back pocket. It’s very common, and we’ve all done it.
Now, imagine you’re on the next flight and you’re sitting in that same seat. You put in your headphones in the pocket, your phone , so it’s handy. Oh – or maybe you put your laptop or tablet in there. The next time you touch your device, you have all those gross leftover germs on your hands – or your face, your mouth, and eyes. Again – EWW!
The seat-back pockets aren’t the only germ infested places in a plane. Everywhere from the bathrooms, to your tray tables are home to a number of bacteria and viruses.
Swab tests done on seat headrests came back with Staphylococcus, E. coli, and Hemolytic bacteria (just look em up – I don’t want to ruin your meal). Seat-back pockets tested positive for aerobic bacteria, mold, coliforms, and E.coli. Germs, germs, and more germs!
Experts say the best way to combat germs is to use hand sanitizer, and to use disinfecting wipes on all surfaces, including the seat, tables, seatbelt – so, basically everything!
Safe travels.
-Carla Rea
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– Wendy Rush, 96.3 KKLZ
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