This is the fourth post of FunnelScope Funnies series focusing on fun and interesting travel stories to highlight our alpha launch of FunnelScope. I’m excited about this one because it’s not my story…it’s from one of FunnelScope’s users, a fashion model from New York named Krista Gamble.
She admits her story falls into the “not-so-funny” category similar to the story about Northwest pilots sleeping at the wheel.
After a great jet-set weekend in St. Kitts and having been hit-on non-stop by local mafia guys (Tony Soprano has nothing on these guys), my best friend and I were flying back to the States.
An hour into the flight we heard some commotion with the flight attendants. A passenger had locked himself into the bathroom. Next thing we see is this guy lying down in the middle of the aisle. A couple doctors came from behind our row to attend to him. We figured the man was having a heart attack.
Horrified, I grabbed a flight attendant and demanded she ask the pilot to land the plane so they could get this poor guy to a hospital. She rudely replied, “We only consider that in an emergency?” Surprised by what constitutes an emergency on a plane, I whispered to myself “Please stay alive until we land so they can get you to the hospital.”
Luckily things settled down and the man’s condition stablized. I overheard one of the doctors say his heart rate and blood pressure are fine. Then suddenly he took a turn for the worst and died. Just like that! Dead just three feet away from me in the aisle. The plane finally made an emergency landing in Bermuda and they took blanket-covered body from the plane. It was horrifying!!
That flight attendant never looked me in the eye again. We were all shaken up and it was sad to see someone die right in front of you, on a plane no less. I always wondered if we landed the plane as I had asked, whether he would have lived. Too bad a dying person does not constitute as an emergency.
Travel Lesson #4: (This one is obvious so I won’t bother saying it)
