Cabin Crew member causes panic

Originally posted by papadoc

I think papadoc may have been on the outbound flight? Not sure if he's back yet?

S

Unfortunatelly I was on that flight, and I can honestly say that for about 10mins it was the worst turbulence that I have ever been through. Overall it went on for over an hour, but the first 10 mins were crazy and totally unexpected.

I was sitting upstairs in PE, for the first time, and it happened right as we hit the coast of Greenland. The captain ordered the crew to their seats inmmediatelly, and they remained there for over an hour.

I didn't hear the crew member scream, or even realise that we had dropped so much until I read this thread, but did hear a lot of shouting from downstairs. The only thing the two crew members who were looking after us upstairs said was that we were lucky to be up there, as loads of people had been sick downstairs, once one started it seemed to start a 'chain-reaction', and they had to go down to give a hand to clean up.

A couple of people upstairs did feel queasy, but luckily they were not sick, and the two girls did their best to look after them.

Needless to say, I didn't bother with any of the roller-coasters this time!

We also had the majority of the same crew on the flight back which arrived this morning, and thankfully there was no repeat performance, although it was fairly 'bumpy'.

papadoc.

I'm a seriously nervous flyer and this makes me never want to fly again!! I wonder if I'd be sick - I hope I never have to find out!

There was another article last week in The Argus (brighton area paper) two guys from burgess hill going into detail

BBS is today reporting that there is no evidence that any crew member caused panic.

Many pax have even written to VS to say thank you:

"Virgin Atlantic has received many letters of praise from passengers who felt compelled to write to the airline to put the record straight, after the allegations were made, and thank the crew for their actions."

Good of people to express their gratitude [y]

Unreserved apologies for the title of this thread...

I am really pleased, and not at all surprised, to hear that the stories were over inflated.

I'd be surprised if crew did panic after are trained and experience turbulance all the time (ok not that much but..)

[Bazz]

Glad that the event can now be put to bed. I am pleased that the staff member has been cleared and hopefully the airlines reputation has not been tainted as a result of the unfortunate episode.