11 horrible things passengers have done while flying

Getting lost, navigating language barriers, and spending too much of a foreign currency are part of the experience of being a tourist. But making a major mistake while flying can have consequences for everyone on board.

First-time flyers, superstitious travelers, and passengers who have simply reached the end of their rope have caused everything from flight delays to cancellations.

Here are 11 times that passengers have reportedly caused trouble.

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A woman was reportedly kicked off a United Airlines flight after complaining about sitting between "two big pigs."

A video filmed by passenger Norma Rodgers appears to show a woman ranting about her seat on a flight from Las Vegas, Nevada, to Newark, New Jersey, and calling the passengers on either side of her "two big pigs."

"I don't know how I'm going to do this for the next four hours," the woman said to someone on the phone, sitting between Rodgers and another man. "This is just impossible, they're squishing me, it's unbelievable."

She then said "At least they'll keep me warm." 

Rodgers then called a flight attendant to ask them to reseat the woman, saying she would not be "verbally abused by anybody."

When a flight attendant told the woman to wait in the back of the plane for another available seat, she said "Thank goodness, because I eat salad, okay?"

Another passenger can be heard in the video telling her that the way she was acting was "terrible."

"I'm not going to be politically correct. Why don't you sit between those two big pigs?" she said.

United Airlines staff eventually escorted the woman off the plane.

"United flight attendants care about the safety and well being of all of our customers which is why they acted quickly to find a different seat for the disruptive customer," a United spokesman told The Independent. "When it became clear that this passenger's behavior was likely to be problematic on this flight, she was provided alternate travel arrangements first thing the next morning."

A passenger tried to open an emergency exit on an American Airlines flight while it was mid-air, but a celebrity came to the rescue.

Actor Michael Rapaport was on a flight from Houston to Los Angeles when he said he saw a man with both hands on the lever of the emergency exit door, trying to open it.

The flight attendants were gathered at the back of the plane, so Rapaport ran to the man and pinned him against a seat until the crew could restrain him.

When interviewed by authorities when the plane landed, the man said he thought it was the bathroom door, according to Fox News. A source told the outlet that the man was "really confused and made an honest mistake."

A video appears to show a woman slapping a gate agent at Wuhan Tianhe International Airport when she missed her flight.

In a video shared by China Global Television Network in 2017, a woman appears to slap a gate agent at Wuhan Tianhe International Airport.

According to the report, the passenger in question arrived at the airport for her flight to Paris 14 minutes after the gate had closed. When she was told that she had arrived too late, the woman allegedly hit the gate agent in the face three times.

The South China Morning Post reported that the woman was a 36-year-old PhD student in Wuhan that was on her way to an "important conference."

She was detained for 10 days, according to The Daily Mail.