1)
Once I boarded a plane and found a woman in my seat. I said “I think you’re in my seat” and we compared tickets and we were both assigned to the seat.
OK, I think, no big deal, I don’t care where I sit. I signal a flight attendant and say “we are both assigned the same seat.” The other passenger FLIPPED OUT and started yelling at me and the flight attendant. “You can’t DO THIS to ME!” We retreated to a safe distance.
The pilot came back and told the woman to get off the plane, and she did, muttering curses the whole way out. The flight attendant diplomatically said the woman had “been unhappy” inside at the gate, too, so the outburst wasn’t entirely surprising.
2)
Flying cross-country once I happened to wake up while we were flying over Colorado. I had binoculars, and looking down I saw my mom’s childhood home, which my great-grandparents built in the 1880s. It’s in a tiny town in the mountains, next to a lake and a church, so it was very easy to recognize even from 30,000 feet.
3)
A friend of mine was flying to Chicago O’Hare but the plane was diverted to Chicago Midway. After a short stay on the runway, they took off and flew the last 15 miles to O’Hare. That would be fun in a full-sized airliner. There should be a commemorative pin or patch for that.