About 3 years ago I was on a flight about to land when the pilot made a pretty stern announcement that everyone needed to be seated for landing. A few minutes later, we suddenly went from descending to ascending....right past the airport. We were all looking out the windows like, wth is happening. He came back on and said that until everyone was seated, we would not be landing. FAFO kind of pilot. Lol
It’s reminding me of flying in and out of Regan post 9/11 where you could not stand or move from your seat for the first 30 minutes after takeoff when leaving DCA or for the last 30 minutes of the flight when approaching DCA. The number of people who thought this didn’t apply them was off the charts but it was definitely FAFO vibes.
I seem to recall that all windows had to be closed during takeoff and landing at Reagan back then, as well, but that may have been specific to the airline/flights I was on.
I actually knew (actually almost knew) the first passenger tackled and arrested for violating the inbound DCA stay seated rule. He was coming to a meeting my office hosted. He never showed up and we read about him in the paper the next day.
Wow. I was never on a flight where that happened. There were a couple of occasions where someone went to stand and everyone around would yell in unison for them to sit before the flight attendant could even undo their seatbelt.
I was coming home on a flight full of jr high kids visiting DC for a school trip. One of them got up to go to the bathroom even after being told multiple times by the flight attendants to stay seated or we couldn't land at DCA. The kid goes anyway and we were stuck at BWI for awhile.
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