Originally Posted by hoops7k

The most frightening thing that I have had happen was on a flight from Cozumel. It was on a charter. It was an all inclusive vacation that included flight on MD-83( I think). When we took off the tail off the plane hit a sand bar at the end of the runway(Due to the plane being overweight). All of the panels on the roof dropped down and some of the oxygen masks. This revealed insulation on the ceiling of the plane.Then they came over the radio and said that they had a mechanic on board. This guy start lifting up floor panels. Meanwhile we were only a couple of hundred feet in the air looking out one wing at the ocean and the other at the sky. Everyone on the plane was silent.It was hard for the pilot to horizontally stabilize the plane. We then came over a jungle and we were looking at the tree tops. They then dumped fuel into the jungle and some how emergency landed in Cancun. People stumbled off the plane and were throwing up everywhere.