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Plane Ride from Hell (Wrestling)

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 Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })The Plane Ride from Hell was an incident that occured among WWE personnel while on a flight from Britain to the United States on May 5, 2002. It has been referred to as "an orgy of excess, violence, and sexual misconduct that would ultimately spell the end of at least two notable careers." The incident occurred in the immediate aftermath of the last pay-per-view under the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) name, just two days before the name change to World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), unfortunately ending that legacy on a sour note.The WWE had just finished a tour of Britain with the Insurrextion pay-per-view. Back then, Vince McMahon chartered flights for WWE personnel instead of using commercial flights. The WWE personnel had a customized Boeing 757 all to themselves, which included a full open bar. To make matters worse, according to Dark Side of the Ring, the plane was grounded on the tarmac in London for hours due to a weather delay back in America. The bar ran out of booze before take-off, and was fully restocked by the time the plane got in the air.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })What followed next was seven hours of Alcohol-Induced Idiocy in mid-air, a hell of a Plane Awful Flight.According to Justin Credible and Sean "X-Pac" Waltman, wrestlers on the flight were drinking and popping pills. It started innocently enough when "Mr. Perfect" Curt Hennig and Scott Hall went around spraying people with shaving cream. Things got more serious, however, when Curt Hennig and Brock Lesnar got into a take-down tussle that nearly knocked open the plane's emergency exit, while they were at least 25,000 feet in the air.Then Ric Flair came out, wearing nothing but his robe, and started hitting on the flight attendants. They would later sue Flair for sexual harassment. Goldust then managed to get on the P.A. system and sang a drunken serenade to his ex-wife Terri Runnels. Scott Hall allegedly got so drunk and drugged up that he hit on some flight attendants himself before passing out.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_3'); })Things continued to spiral out of control as Michael Hayes nearly urinated on Linda McMahon, thinking he was in the bathroom.note There's some debate on whether or not this happened; Waltman is the only one to speak of this, and Bruce Prichard has claimed that this happened on a different flight. Hayes later picked a fight with John "Bradshaw" Layfield by re-opening a wound on his head. Bradshaw proceeded to floor Hayes with a punch. Hayes would continue to mess around until he finally fell asleep. Sean Waltman got revenge, however, by inflicting a Traumatic Haircut on Hayes, which Hayes wouldn't find out about until he was off the plane, and had a Freak Out in customs when he did. Hall had passed out blind drunk some time after the shaving cream spraying and had to be wheeled into customs. It's also disputed whether he hit on the attendants as well, but he definitely passed out from excess booze and drugs.The flight mercifully ended after seven hours, but the fallout was swift. Curt Hennig and Scott Hall were fired almost as soon as the plane landed. Not long after, Dustin Rhodes was also fired, though he would return later. Hall faced probably some of the worst years of his life but he managed to beat the bottle and returned as well. Tragically, Hennig died due to cocaine overdose after languishing in the independent circuit and TNA for about a year, never seeing a WWE ring again.
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