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"Steward-death", Way to Die #701, is the fifth death featured in the Season 4 Premiere "The One About Dumb People Dying", which aired on February 8, 2011, and the fourth death to be featured in the Death By Request: Special episode, which aired on October 24, 2011.
Plot[]
Valerie was an extremely irritable flight attendant on the verge of retirement after eight years on the job, On her final flight, Valerie shows her rudeness by refusing to give one female passenger a pillow when the latter politely requested one. During inflight service on refreshments, she threw packs of peanuts, pretzels, and any other foods or cans and bottles of beverages on the plane she was in. This caused the passengers to start to hate her with one passenger giving Valerie an angry glare with her response being not to give her that look.
Due to turbulence, the pilot informs the passengers to fasten their seat belts. However, Valerie ignores the plea, and gloats at one of the passengers. As soon as she started gloating, the fuselage of the plane cracked, and Valerie was ultimately sucked out of the plane. As she was falling to her death, due to high force winds, extreme cold, and lack of oxygen, she died before she hit the water of the Pacific Ocean, sending her to Hell before she even had time to drown.
Transcript[]
([] is playing)
Narrator: If you've ever wondered if airline travel has lost some of it's old luster...
Valerie: It- just, come on.
Narrator: Look no further than flight attendant, Valerie.
Valerie: It's cool, take your time. We don't have schedules to maintain.
(Dreamy and Dark Death is playing)
Narrator: After eight long years of handing out Peanuts and pillows, Valerie had had enough... She was retiring, and this, was her last flight.
Random Female Plane Passenger: Can I please have a pillow?
Valerie: No you may not, thank you very much.
(The Plane takes off, [] is playing)
Narrator: Valerie began this latest flight with her own "Coffee-Tea" or "Screw you" brand of service...
Valerie: Hey, sleeping beauty, it's nighttime...
(Valerie throws Peanut packets at the passengers, slightly annoying them)
Valerie: That's Peanuts.
(Tha Captain speaks to the passengers via a speaker system)
Plane captain: Ladies and gentlemen, this is your Captain speaking: We're gonna give this a slight drop, just a little Turbulence. Please, fasten your seatbelts.
(The passengers buckle up)
Narrator: The passengers buckled up, but the real turbulence was inside the plane...
Valerie: Those lips are flapping, and I'm not listening, thank you so much.
Narrator: Valerie had them ready to blow their tops, and then...
(The roof of the plane rips open, sucking Valerie outside the plane immediately, the passengers scream and use oxygen mask)
Narrator: The plane beat them to it.
([] is playing)
Jean-Claude Demirdjian: What would cause the fuselage to crack in this particular case, uh, was a christian of bonding...
(Footage of how the airplane was made)
Jean-Claude Demirdjian: that was used in between the skins of the fuselage. Overtime, the bonding process...
(CGI airplane shows up, the top of the airplane cracks)
Jean-Claude Demirdjian: didn't stick, and moisture got in, moisture created corrosion, the corrosion created cracks. Because of pressurization, it just ripped the fuselage open.
(View the plane's ceiling opened)
Jean-Claude Demirdjian: All of that compressed air, blows out of the airplane.
(Valerie flies off)
Jean-Claude Demirdjian: Anyone who isn't seated with a seatbelt, you're going to be sucked, literally, right out of the airplane...
(The roof shatters, Valerie falling into the ocean, [] is playing)
Narrator: When Valerie was sucked outside the plane, she was hit by a lethal "triple whammy": 500 miles per hour of skin-shredding winds, a body freezing temperature of minus 67 degrees, and less oxygen than the top of Mount Everest... She was dead before she hit the water.
(Recap, Impression Failure is playing)
Narrator: The next time you're on a flight, keep your seat belts buckled, try to ignore the hostile stewardess...
Random Plane Passenger: Can I please have a pillow?
Valerie: No you may not, thank you very much.
(Valerie throws Peanut packets at the passengers, slightly annoying them)
Narrator: And remember, the closest exit maybe...
(The roof of the plane rips open, sucking Valerie outside the plane immediately)
Narrator: Right above your head.
(The passengers are still frightened until the arrival of the destination)
Notable Cast & Interviewees[]
- Jean-Claude Demirdjian (Airplane Pilot)
- Noelle Balfour - Valerie (lead: intended victim)
Trivia[]
- This is similar to what happened on Aloha Airlines Flight 243 in 1988 when a section of the roof was ripped off in midair and a flight attendant was sucked out and died. 65 other people were injured, three critically. Fortunately, the plane was able to make an emergency landing at Kahului Airport. Article: https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1988/04/30/and-then-whoosh-she-was-gone/a4da02d6-c8c3-47f7-a4e4-da2097a73b2a/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.7731c8af3af1
- This death scene is awarded the "Best Cosmic Karma" in the Death By Request: Special episode and the only death from Season 4 to win an award.
- During the CGI recap, Valerie's scream is the same scream from Who Ded?. The scream was also heard in I'll Sleep When I'm Dead when James is hallucinating and is seconds away from death.
- The actress that portrayed Valerie (Noelle Balfour), actually died on October 11, 2017. She had been slowly recovering from a terrible accident that had broken her neck and crushed her spine, leaving her paralyzed.
- Valerie's death is similar to that of Flaky's death in Happy Tree Friends episodes, "Wingin' It".
- As a silly bonus, there are some good opportunities for you to exclaim "That's what she said".
- The UK version's nickname shares the same pun as Chairway to Heaven.
- Like Goon Interrupted, this is one of a few deaths not to feature an exact location of death.
Segment Nicknames[]
- Unfriendly Skies (Spike TV)
- Terror at 30,000
- Planeway To Heaven (Pun on "Stairway to Heaven" and "plane"; In UK Version) (Misleading pun name)
- Airplane Karma (In 1777)
- Planeway To Hell
- Die in Heaven
- "Heaven" to Hell
Foreign Names[]
- La Azafata Aspirada (The Aspirated Stewardess) - Latin American Spanish dub
- La Muerte de la Azafata (The Death of the Stewardess) - Latin American Spanish dub (The Deathies)
- Azafata Aspirada (Stewardess Aspirated) - European Spanish dub
- Abflug (Departure) - German dub
- Akutinit Katihwilat Departura (Shameless Overloaded Departure) - Lazoran dub
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