Comments by "Keit Hammleter" (@keithammleter3824) on "Passengers OUT OF CONTROL. Mentour Pilot explains." video.

  1. One time, I was on a 747 flight from one end of the country to the other - about 3000 km. Boarding etc proceeded normally until the cabin crew closed the doors. Then apparently a woman seated 2 rows behind a door started making a fuss. I was seated just in front of this door, so I could hear everything that was going on. Apparently the woman had a fear of confinement. First, a hostess tried to calm her. It almost worked, but when she was assisted with her seatbelt, she went off again. Then the purser had a go at calming her down. Each time, after much calm words, he asked her if she would like to continue with the flight, she replied something like "Yes, I do, I'm sorry I'm such trouble." But, every time, when asked to put on seat belt, she went off again. After 20-30 minutes of this, the captain came down and he had a go at calming her and getting her to agree to sit down and put on her belt. He spent 15 minutes doing that. I (and I guess most other passengers) got pretty fed up - I was wishing he would just simply kick her off the plane, or give her a vallium or something. Eventually, he gave up and told the cabin crew to open the door and he told her to sit down and belt up now, or get off. He told her that if she did get off, other airlines would be notified and she would never be permitted to fly again. That made her dither at the door for another 5 minutes. Then she announced, "yes, I'm getting off" and out she went. Whereupon 2 young teenagers suddenly got up and left with her, angrily saying "Mum, mum - we are going to miss the wedding!". Then we had to wait another 30 minutes or more for her and her kid's baggage to be unloaded. All up, we were delayed about 2 hours. Mr Mentour, can you do a video on typical airline handing of people who express fear of confinement or fear of flying? I wonder who in this case paid for the wasted fuel keeping the engines idling for 2 hours just because a silly woman couldn't make up her mind.
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