I was in the very last row. Also took off late bc the incoming flight had someone on a stretcher and had issues offloading them. But I ended up sitting across from the giant metal stretcher.
20 min into the flight captain comes on and has everyone sit down and buckle in - flight attendants included. Can barely understand him even in English bc of the heavy accent.
Flight attendants start getting antsy. Speaking in French (no clue what), not allowing anyone to move. This lady came back to potty and they made her sit in the open seat next to the stretcher and buckle up. Wouldn’t let her pee or go back to sit with her husband. She and I are now trauma bonded. We cried out of sheer stress when we landed safely.
I put some smell good lotion on and they freaked out wondering where it came from. I told them and she even smelled my hands to make sure it was the right scent.
All the sudden the attendant stand up and start almost running down the aisle telling everyone to tighten their seat belts and start handing the passengers in the emergency exit rows pillows.
They sit back down and buckle in their 5 point harnesses and the lady I could see behind me was basically bracing herself under her legs with her hands and tapping her foot super nervously.
Absolutely terrifying.
We landed safely. Technical support people came out, fixed the window - and fixed the bathroom door, bc it kept falling off when someone opened it
. And we left. And everything was fine. Like it never happened.
QF142 AKL - SYD (18/10) took a more northerly route. Would this be indicating a MEL or something similar that required a longer route to stay within ETOPs limits?
