I’m an ex-flight attendant and I saw passengers overdosing on planes and having sex with hookers
A FORMER flight attendant has lifted the lid on the less glamorous parts of the job after witnessing passengers overdosing and getting it on with hookers while on board.
Air hostess turn author Ann Hood worked in the skies from 1979 to 1986 after passing her training with flying colours before experiencing the highs and lows of flying.
In her new memoir Fly Girl, she revealed how she once witnessed a young woman die of a drug overdose on board.
Ann also told of another harrowing incident in which she had to administer oxygen to a passenger having a heart attack, while on other trips she had to comfort grieving passengers on their way to funerals.
But on the flip side, Ann - who was born in Rhode Island, US - also saw some more interesting sights and on one occasion saw the mile-high club in full swing.
In her book, she detailed how every man in first-class one by one visited a woman in the bathroom on a flight from Boston to LA, reports the
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Recalling the saucy encounter, she told how she asked her fellow flight attendant: "How did they know she would go along with that?"
He replied laughing: "They hired her. She was a prostitute."
Ann said she even once made an ice-cream sundae for actor Richard Gere in first-class, and cheekily asked him if he wanted nuts which "made her blush".
The ex-air hostess also revealed the gruelling nature of her six-week training for TWA after scoring her first interview with American Airlines.
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She wrote: "People were sent home every day because they failed written tests, showed a bad attitude, got too frightened during emergency procedures, or just got homesick."
Ann said she learned to “evacuate seven kinds of aircraft,” deliver babies, administer oxygen, apply eyeliner and lipstick without a mirror, extinguish fires, mix cocktails and “brush off passes from male passengers”.
After passing, she was sent to Boston to take on a harsh six-month probationary period, where they had to fly “on reserve,” without a set schedule.
She said instructors would randomly quiz them about safety and service - or even meet them after landing to weigh them.
Ann wrote: "Other than missing a flight, the number-one reason new hires got fired was for being overweight."
She said as newbies had to keep their hiring weight, many felt compelled to starve themselves to stay trim.
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After paying her dues, Ann got to work on international flights - watching on as she flew passed the pyramids in Egypt and other sensational sites.
Ann quit the skies in 1986 and went on to marry, have children, write and teach - but insists being a flight attendant is "one of the most demanding, sexist, exciting, glorious jobs a person can have".
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