Originally Posted by
mikey2124
I have been on a 777 flying ANU-LGW before which went all the way to the runway, then back again because of an 85 ish year old lady who would refuse to sit down. She was in row 36 next to my parents who got moved to row 11 as she was in the H seat and at that point and would not stand up to let them get to there seats! As a result though, I moved from 37J to having 36HJK all to myself, and the pilot caught up our 1h30min delay across the atlantic!
I had a similar experience to Mikey a few years back. Flying to GRU from LHR on the 2100 (ish) flight. After a lengthy delay due to engine problems (inc 1 aborted take off) we trundled out to the runway. The captain throttled up the engines, and then backed them off again. Then next thing I saw was him come walking past to the back fo the plane. After 5 mins of sitting on the runway idling, the captain walks back to the cabin and takes us back to the terminal. It turns out that a guy at the back was refusing to sit down and they had to unload him. Since it was now around 1:30am they would be unable to take off due to time restrictions so we all had to get off and the flight would go at 16:00 the next day!!!
When we left the plane there were 10 armed policemen to escort the guy out of the airport!
The worse bit is that I was op-up'd from W to J so not too pleased!