Originally Posted by
gr8pirate
LH 453/452 (LAX-MUC or the other way around) a few years ago.
This happened in the farthest cabin back, I was fortunately in the one with the stairs down to the bathrooms:
Turbulence. Commotion in the cabin behind us, with FAs scuttling back and forth to help. I asked them about it later and they said someone ended up throwing up in one of the middle seats. This caused a chain reaction of vomiting in the people around them which apparently went on for quite a while longer than the turbulence did.
Eek!
My mother experienced a chain reaction mass vomit on a propliner in the 50's. It was bumpy, and that made her sister throw up..which made her throw up..which made almost everyone else throw up. It started slow and got fast. A perfect example of a primal sympathetic response. Behavioral scientists would have loved it..until they barfed too.