Boarding lasts 20 minutes or so, if you’re in the gate area at the start of boarding and you have to ‘go’ you really should do it before getting on the plane.
Sneaking into the lav while passengers are trying to get down the aisle slows things down.
Sure, sometimes it’s necessary — maybe your inbound flight was late and you make it to your connecting gate just before they’re going to shut the doors and you have to go.
But here’s the risk. If you do it right before takeoff, and it takes you awhile. . .
A female passenger found herself trapped in the lavatory on board a British Airways plane as it hurtled down the runway and took off.
As the plane gathered speed the embarrassed young woman sheepishly stepped out of the toilet, only to be ordered back inside by a screaming air stewardess.
Moments later the packed Gatwick-bound flight took off – with the passenger still locked in the toilet without a seatbelt to anchor her to the lavatory.
The woman was only allowed to return to her seat after the flight was safely in the air and the seatbelt warning lights had been switched off.
The flight was from Amsterdam to London-Gatwick.
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That woman must have been pissed!
Wonder if the flight attendants yelled “urine trubble”!!
That is embarrassing! There is nothing fun about hitting the john during a flight!
She knew she was in a wee bit of trouble!
Poor woman, she must have felt like shit
After all the money she spent for her ticket, she still had to spend a penny!
She definitely pissed her pants taking off without a seatbelt!
All that yelling from the Flight Attendant must have scared the sh*t out of her!
A few years ago, I had an attack of food poisoning that hit after I boarded an AF flight from ORY to BCN but before takeoff. There was no way I could return to my seat.
The flight attendant knocked on the lav door and asked me to go back, but I told her there was no way, so she said, “Hold on!”, and off we went.
Fortunately, the climb wasn’t too choppy, and I was able to leave the loo after a few minutes.
Not fun….
Somehow makes me think of the Mile High Club scene in “Vegas Vacation” ( http://klipd.com/watch/vegas-vacation/mile-high-club-airplane-scene ).
I hope she didn’t come out of the restroom covered in blue liquid.
Not quite as dramatic, but I was trapped in the lavatory next to door 1L on a 757 because the cockpit door was open with the doorstop during boarding, which prevent me from opening the lavatory door while I’m inside. This is why there is a flight attendant call button inside the bathroom – it’s a different tone from other tones so they know it’s a distress call from the lavatory.
People must have thought she was loony.