Had a flight leaving Beirut and it was my only time flying out of there so I don't know if it was normal , but the plane banked so hard to the left immediately after take off that it looked like we would clip the runway with the wing. It literally looked like it was a few feet from the ground.
Got stuck on an Aeroflot flight out of Singapore in the early 90s because my Singapore Airlines flight out of Bangkok was cancelled. The plane was an old Pan Am jet (I recognized the apholstry on the seats from a previous trip in the late 60s - might have been the same damned plane). Full of Russians (was going to Moscow first then Germany), smoking during the whole flight, and water leaking from the AC onto the seats.
Once on a flight up from Ecuador toward Bogota, the pilot announced that the plane had encountered a serious malfunction and we had to make emergency landing; once on the ground I spoke to the stewardess to gather some info about the problem; she pointed to the pilot who was sitting under a tree munching a sandwich. “El Capitan was very hungry; said he couldn’t make another hour to Bogota without eating”.