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Posted on 07/20/2025 5:22:39 AM PDT by xxqqzz
Passengers were stranded in a “war zone” at a Maine airport for over 17 hours after their flight was diverted due to a pair of butt-huffing bozos puffing cigarettes on board.
Passengers were stranded in Bangor, Maine, for over 17 hours after their TUI Airways flight from Cancun, Mexico, to London, UK, was diverted due to a couple smoking on board.
“It was like a war zone in a lounge — rows and rows of beds,” passenger Terry Lawrance said while painting the dismal scene in Bangor, Maine (pictured).
“Everybody was fed up,” UK native Terry Lawrance, 66, told Southwest News Service of the unplanned layover, which occurred July 8 on a TUI Airways flight from Cancun, Mexico, to London, UK.
The aircraft had been flying for about an hour when the pilot came on the intercom and announced that two passengers had been “smoking in the toilet” and that he’d have to make an unscheduled landing if they persisted, Lawrance recalled.
“About three hours later, around the border with Canada and he came on to let us know that the plane was being diverted to Bangor, Maine,” recounted Lawrance.
Tracking data on Flightradar24 depicts the plane turning back toward Maine, right after entering Canadian airspace.
The passengers continued smoking despite a warning from the pilot.
They landed around 9:30 p.m. that evening, after which the two smokers were escorted off the plane. “They were obviously drunk, and he basically assaulted his partner,” recalled Lawrance.
The pilot said they’d be on their way after some paperwork was done, not knowing that their short pitstop would turn into the layover from hell.
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One of these days, one of these passengers is going to snap on idiots like this and beat the living hell out of them.
What do you want them to do go outside?
Yeah ... no. I am old enough to remember smoking on planes, I used to do it. There was never a single incident (at least that made the news, and believe me it would have been all over the news) where a crash was attributed ... much less proven ... to be caused by someone smoking on board. Smoking was restricted to a part of the plane (usually back), and the air circ system kept it so those in the non-smoking section really were not bothered by it.
They push pot smoking but this is like a felony for which landing a plane off course is necessary
People smoked on airplanes. We sat in the smoking section and later on as young adults we sat in smoking because people were more fun in the smoking section
Meanwhile I have to advise a certain young adult how to keep the smoke out of the apartment they’re paying thousands for to get advanced degrees Where’s the authorities there?
Outside would be a good idea. Sick and tired of the ME! crowd thinking rules don’t apply to them. IF they were drunk, why were they let on board and did they get served more alcohol while in flight?
These days half the passengers were probably terrified that second hand smoke would kill them on contact.
Common sense is gone.
So basically there was a bunch of illegal aliens dumped into Bangor, Maine. What did ATC allow that plane to land in the US instead of telling it to go back to Mexico?
So glad it got banned.
Sounds like someone should weave this into a book or movie!!
> One of these days, one of these passengers is going to snap on idiots like this and beat the living hell out of them. <
I’d be happy enough if each of these smokers got a well-publicized year or so in prison. But I doubt very much if that will happen.
More likely it will be probation, plus a ban from flying on that particular airline.
The 717 was the last plane (and the first in a long time) that used fresh air instead of re-circulated air in the cabin.
I’m old enough to remember when coach passengers got meals served on real plates, with metal utensils and a four pack of cigarettes for an after meal smoke. But cigarettes (and especially cigars) stink. And I’m glad that’s one indignity no longer imposed on air travelers.
Yeah ... no. I am old enough to remember smoking on planes, I used to do it.
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I recall being on a plane as a teenager with a friend when he mentioned to the ‘stewardess’ that it would be nice to have some cigarettes... and she promptly gave us some of hers.
. “They were obviously drunk, and he basically assaulted his partner,”
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Two men?
Nonsense. We all smoked on planes.
Bangor is a well known international refueling stop. Remember many flights go near or over the icecap
That was what I was wondering. The world revolves around them.
Every single recurrent when I was a flight attendant, we went over this incident to understand exactly how dangerous it is for pax to smoke in the lavatories.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Canada_Flight_797
You wrote “Smoking was restricted to a part of the plane (usually back), and the air circ system kept it so those in the non-smoking section really were not bothered by it.”
You must be a youngster. I’m so old I remember when could smoke anywhere in the plane.
I also know that the introduction of the no smoking section was a joke. The whole plane still reeked of smoke. The airlines made no changes to the air system to contain the smoke to one section. Asking for the no smoking section was like asking for the no-chlorine end of the swimming pool.
I absolutely dreaded flying because of the smoke.
A Varig 707 and an Air Canada DC-9 both killed a lot of people from fires started by smokers in the bathroom.
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