Police Called on Pilots by Cabin Crew

"if the other pilot decides to have a heart attack" Imagine making such an irresponsible decision!

Kelsey: These stories aren't about me. Also Kelsey: Here's detailed information about where snacks are kept.

"So I taped the video camera in the corner of the bathroom, Your Honour..."

showing your young fresh female colleague you've been secretly recording in the bathroom is like joking with the airport security personnel about bombs in your luggage. you're going down

Ya know, for someone who is telling someone else's story in first person, and insisting that you're not involved at all, you are a remarkable good story teller. You sure these aren't hybrid stories where you are mixing some of your own stories with these? Either way, another entertaining vid!

I'm a retired emt. You don't mess with jump kits (medical kits). They're stocked for each shift for a good reason.

Pranks that may be construed as felonies are never a good idea.

Number of years ago when flying for a large regional airline....A flight crew on a EMB 120 Brasilia, called the new FA to the cockpit (only one FA on an EMB120)....there the light crew explained the Lavatory was "overheating" while gesturing toward some flashing lights in the cockpit, and told her she needed to dump ice in it and flush it until the flight crew gives her the okay. Now the "potty on small regional aircraft is basically a portapotty with a pump that circulates the contents to filter out any solids from the fluid when it is "flushed." What the flight crew did not count on was a very intelligent and concerned FA... After the flight she first went to maintenance to check on the condition of the "overheating" toilet and to find out how often it happened and if it was a hazard in flight. That's when she was informed about being the victim of a prank. Pissed, her next stop was the chief pilot.....who sympathized with the FA and agreed to help her get even.........next day the flight crew were called into the chief pilot's office. Chief pilot immediately confronted the flight crew about their "prank"....after they admitted to the "harmless" joke , the chief pilot then explained how the pump that normally circulated the fluid had burned out due to all the ice they had instructed the FA to dump into it........they were then informed that that pump cost $10,000 and They, the flight crew, were on the hook for the cost of a new pump....and it would be taken out of their checks over the course of a few months!!!! The flight crew were left dangling for months before realizing the tables had been turned on them......

When the jokes so good HR wants to hear it.

For some reason the idea of Kelsey rummaging through snacks like a hungry trash panda is hilarious. Your videos are great!

I am a retired captain for a major airline. There is no room for fooling around as an airline captain. You can be cordial and friendly and always open to advice. You have to be very careful of joking around with crew or pax because not everyone has the same sense of humor. I have had flight attendants come to the cockpit and say off color jokes but if I ever said anything like this it would be an issue. The captain is held to a higher standard before, during, and after the flight period.

these guys really thought "haha ill make a young woman believe she was sexually harassed, itll be HILARIOUS" and thought there'd be no consequences

I realize the story is told in the first person, but the snacks story sounded both familiar and authentic. 😉👍

This is a true prank story: In our airline in the early 1970s ,we had a very mischevious prankster captain. On a flight from Dacca to Karachi on a Boeing 707, he found out that they had a new Air Hostess on her first flight. He briefed the First Class Purser about his trick and the new girl was put in the First Class--which also served the cockpit. The Captain called the girl to the cockpit to take an order for tea for himself, the copilot and flight engineer. It was a night flight in a bright moonlight sky. As soon as she left to get the teas, the three cockpit crew opened the floor hatch behind the captain's seat (to the avionics and electrics bay) and all three went down there. When she returned the poor girl was alone in a moonlit cockpit with no crew! She ran back to the purser to tell him that the aircrew had disappeared. Meanwhile the crew emerged from their hiding place and resumed their seats. The Purser led her back to the cockpit, where the crew were now seated. She collapsed on the jump seat in confusion. The captain explanied to her that "on a first flight new crew are sometimes subject to optical illusions." Weeks later the Hostess was told about the prank. It was a very stupid thing to do because there would have been no one at the controls if an emergency occurred. No one reported the captain but, a few months, later he was permanently grounded with a heart problem.

Always loved your analysis of flying and found this honesty refreshing. We all are human and I get the prank gone wrong. Thanks for the humanity, mate, stay legendary. The story telling is amazing. I will buy your book

Any pranking in the workplace is unacceptable and unprofessional and should not be tolerated.

Just when you give us plenty of reasons to put full confidence when the pilots and crew, you come along and remind us that they are still crazy humans. 😂😂

I do believe Kelsey's disclaimer and that he wasn't involved in these stories, but the one where he told about how the pilot would watch to see where the snacks are stored did seem like an instance where one of these stories did happen to correspond with his own experience. ;)

A pilot friend once invited a father with his young son into the cockpit ( yes there was once a time that was allowed.) My friend was talking to the young boy and asked him what he thought of all the dials, switches and lights. The boy was properly amazed and then my friend commented that he once knew what they were all for. The father complained to the airline and my friend had a not so nice meeting with the chief pilot.

Pranking is often humiliation humor and humiliation is the most potent way of alienating anyone.