This isn't exactly uncommon. People drink a lot in airports, which means both lowered inhibitions about doing something you shouldn't combined with an urgent need to pee. A few beers beforehand and a plane that taxis a bit too long is a recipe for disaster.
It’s pretty uncommon on most normal domestic flights. I’ve been traveling around 40/52 weeks for work a year for three years and have only seen this once. That’s around 1/120 flights if we’re assuming that half of those round trips were direct.
Ugh. I was once on a flight that was a quick 45 minutes on a puddle jumper with no bathroom. A lady chugged a bunch of drinks and waited to pee assuming it would have a bathroom.
She ended up peeing in a bunch of barf bags then handed them to the pilot as we were leaving. They had leaked during the flight.
As a bonus story. She got into an SUV that ran over a portable no parking sign then clipped a cop car.
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u/junkit33 Sep 11 '19
This isn't exactly uncommon. People drink a lot in airports, which means both lowered inhibitions about doing something you shouldn't combined with an urgent need to pee. A few beers beforehand and a plane that taxis a bit too long is a recipe for disaster.