A
Daughter’s
Missing Ashes
Grieving mother Iddy
Pierre-Canel, 57, was flying
home to Tucson with an urn
containing the ashes of her
late daughter Carm-Idrelle
Casseus when, she claims,
agateagentforcedherto
check the bag—which the
airline then lost. The suitcase
was returned a month
later—minus the urn. “Where
is my child?” says Pierre-
Canel, who is suing the airline.
“It’s like I lost her twice.”Is That a Snake Under Your Seat?
Just minutes into a March commuter flight from Aniak
to Anchorage, one of the pilots announced that a passenger
from a previous flight had misplaced a pet snake—and thought
it might be loose on the plane. A little boy—one of seven
passengers on board, who was sitting with his mother in the last
row—found the nearly 5-ft.-long snake behind his seat, curled
up under a carry-on bag. “He said, ‘Oh, Mom, look at this. What’s
that?’” passenger Anna McConnaughy told the Associated
Press. “That’s how we figured out there was a snake sleeping in
the corner.” Fortunately a flight attendant was able to safely place it
in a bag and store it in the overhead bin for the rest of the trip.3
7
No Cellos Allowed
John Kaboff and his cello—for
which he’d purchased a seat—
were awaiting takeoff on a
flight to Chicago when, he
says, the captain appeared and
said the cello was a safety
hazard. Kaboff, who’d flown
with the cello many times
before, protested but was told
to leave the plane—or be
forcibly removed. “I got off.
What was I going to do?” he
says. Outside a gate agent
booked him and his cello on the
next flight, no questions asked.
4 5
Warning:
Scorpion in
the Over-
head Bin!
Richard Bell
was eating lunch
on a flight from
Houston to
Calgary when he
felt something fall
from the overhead
bin and land on
his head. “I picked
it up, and it was a
scorpion!” he told
CBS News. “I was
holding it by the
tail.” Eventually
a flight attendant
trapped the
potentially deadly
arachnid in a cup
and flushed it
down the toilet
—but not before
it stung Bell,
who was met by
medics upon
landing. “It was
lucky that it
hit my nail more
than my skin,
I think, so maybe
my thumbnail
saved me a little
bit,” he said.Pierre-Canel (right)
with her daughter
in 2015.Is That Lady Dead?
Tiffany Gomez, 25,was on
a 2014 flight from London
to New York when a woman
two rows ahead of her died in her
seat. “The flight attendants picked
her up like you’d handle a drunk
person and carried her to the back of
the plane,” she says. “It was freaky.”Feet on the Seat
Jessie Char, 30, thought
she’d lucked out with an
empty row on her flight to
San Francisco on July 18.
That is until a pair of feet with
chipped red toenails made
themselves at home on the
row’s armrests. “She even
opened the window shade
with her foot!” says Char.
“It was one of the weirdest
things I’ve ever seen.”WW
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COUNTERCLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: RAQUEL LONAS/GETTY IMAGES; COURTESY JOHN KABOFF;COURTESY JESSIE CHAR; COURTESY IDDY PIERRE-CANEL; STEVE WILLIAMS/GETTY IMAGES