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WINCHENDON, Mass. -- A Winchendon woman said an airline did not help her after she sat in a urine-soaked seat on a Florida to Boston flight on Sunday night.

"I was sitting maybe 30 seconds to minute and realized that my pants were soaked," Jennifer Castellano said.

Castellano said she was wearing jeans and a long sweater. She said she went to the lavatory.

"I then realized I was saturated in urine from the smell," she said.
Castellano said a flight attendant told her someone had gone to the bathroom in the seat during the previous flight.

"A flight attendant told me that on the previous flight a man had urinated on himself in that particular seat. And I said, 'I'm not sitting on a three hours flight soaked in someone else's urine. That is absolutely disgusting,'" Castellano said.

Castellano took off the wet clothes, w\rapped herself in a blanket and changed seats. When the flight arrived in Boston, airliner personnel said the could not get her luggage.

"I get off the plane in Logan, I had to walk through the terminal in a blanket to retrieve my bags from baggage claim. It was humiliating, degrading to walk through an airport dressed like this. They did not offer me any clothes vouchers, to get my bags from baggage claim. They did nothing -- absolutely nothing," she said.

An Air Tran representative said it is against federal regulations for airline personnel to retrieve passenger luggage. They said Air Tran is investigating the incident and will refund Castellano the purchase price of her ticket and refund the cost of the damaged clothing.
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well, better to be pissed off than pissed on. :laff:

seat should have been taken out of use for that flight...I'd like to think it'd be taken out of service until the aircraft can be scrubbed, but umm...yeah that and those darn glasses in hotel rooms...
 
I'd like to see how the airline justifies having a pissed on seat occupied. Even if we're only getting half of the story, what's the deal with that?

Or I guess the airline is being just like pretty much any other business and pissing on their customers. :cool:
 
Maximillian_Jenius said:
...note to self, next time I fly do pre urine check before sitting down!
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I can't believe you guys don't look at the seat before plopping down.

When I was domestic, even on a MD-88, I think everything third leg we're requesting a new seat cover or two from cabin service.

ALWAYS LOOK!
 
Doug Taylor said:
I can't believe you guys don't look at the seat before plopping down.

When I was domestic, even on a MD-88, I think everything third leg we're requesting a new seat cover or two from cabin service.

ALWAYS LOOK!
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Prior to this, never thought to look...you'd think that if someone pissed on a seat the FA's would block off the seat, put a cover on it, or at the very least inform the person who is confirmed to sit there.

If they had prior knowledge of course.
 
Kids and old people whizz themselves all the time on airplanes. Now the flight attendants may have not known that the seat was soiled. They largely deplane, the cleaning crew jumps on the aircraft to clean it and then boarding starts.

I seriously doubt they knew.
 
ugh....makes me glad we have those pleather type seats, at least they're a little less sponge like in their fluid-absoprtion properties than your typical clothy-cushion.
 
If it was known to the crew, the seat pad should have been changed out.

But seriously folks, always inspect your seating area before sitting down. Look at the seat, floor, tray table, everything. Just a quick glance around to make sure there's no one else's "remnants" of any kind from a previous flight! (Soaked seat cushions, vomit, used yak sacks, dirty diapers, kleenex, and other assorted grossities have all been known to escape the cleaning crews.)
 
MQAAord said:
If it was known to the crew, the seat pad should have been changed out.

But seriously folks, always inspect your seating area before sitting down. Look at the seat, floor, tray table, everything. Just a quick glance around to make sure there's no one else's "remnants" of any kind from a previous flight! (Soaked seat cushions, vomit, used yak sacks, dirty diapers, kleenex, and other assorted grossities have all been known to escape the cleaning crews.)
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Ignorance was bliss. Blech! :panic:
 
Im sure the live lobsters pissed on themselves this morning with my landing, but the other boxes didn't complain...
 
Eeeeewwwwwwwww!!! Nasty.

Doug's right, though. We change those coach seats constantly. I'd say every third leg at least we have an FA come up and ask us to call for a coach cushion.
 
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