Gabby Logan has revealed she almost caused an emergency plane landing after experiencing extreme pain and feeling unwell, before realizing her ‘illness’ was something totally different.
The BBC star revealed she was unable to lift her chest up or ‘unravel [her] body’, and the plane had to be lowered to 10,000 feet.
It turned out though, Gabby just had some trapped gas, but she had no idea at the time and caused a bit of panic on the plane.
The 50-year-old explained the shocking incident on her The Mid Point podcast, during a conversation with her husband Kenny.
‘Remember that flight we went on, I’ve just remembered now, where you had to get the pilot to lower the plane to 10,000 feet?’ he began.
Kenny continued: ‘I was sat next to my wife and she had gone a bit white and she said, “I’m not feeling well”, and I was like, “You’ll be fine, just get some water.”‘
‘It started in the airport!’ Gabby chimed in with, explaining: ‘I wasn’t feeling well in the airport, I got on the plane, I felt worse, and to the point where I couldn’t unravel my body.
‘I was crunched over and couldn’t lift my chest up, and I didn’t know what was wrong.
‘The air hostess looked really worried… I had gone really white.’
Gabby was taken to the front of the plane into the galley, and overheard the air stewards talking about whether they needed to land the plane to help her, or give her oxygen.
‘And then he just said, “I’m going to see if we just slightly lower the plane a little bit, what that does to you, it might just change the way you feel.”‘
Taking over on telling the story, Kenny revealed how ‘suddenly’ he heard Gabby burping after her ‘trapped wind’ was released.
‘Basically, I had trapped wind. It’s not as if the whole plane didn’t know about this by this point,’ she laughed.
Kenny joked that Gabby even got a ‘cheer’ by the other passengers, after she felt much better.
The mum-of-two and former gymnast added that the story was also shared on Would I Lie To You? when the steward who helped her actually surprised her as a guest.
On the show, hosted by Rob Brydon, Gabby explained as the air steward appeared on stage: ‘This is Richard, he is the flight attendant who convinced me I wasn’t dying, but I had trapped wind.’
She added on the BBC programme that she felt ‘really breathless’ at the time and ‘uncomfortable’.
‘I thought I was dying,’ she added, before recalling how she was told by Richard that it was just, in fact, trapped wind.
