The worst flight horror stories as told by cabin crew

One flight attendant who worked extensively in Africa at a time that a viral haemorrhagic disease was spotted in one of the inner countries recalled an incident when a passenger began to "implode," vomiting blood and "so much of it that the bag couldn't contain it." Writing on Reddit, he said: "We clear his row and lay him down. He looks really bad - bruising all over his face and body, flushed face, insane fever. There was a doctor on board and he didn't know what to do. He thought it might be a severe case of malaria, but it didn't quite match up. The other passengers are obviously freaking out and I'm trying to keep my cool." The steward continued that the flight landed and the passenger was taken off the plane on a stretcher but the "truly frightening part was that since 'haemorrhagic fever' had not entered the medical lexicon at that point, all the passengers got off the plane and dispersed. There was no quarantine. It is sheer, blind, stupid luck that a global pandemic did not start from this incident."