So first off, I'm not sure if this is the right place for this post, if not, let's make sure to get it where it goes.
Secondly... I hope nothing ever happens, but...
As I'm sitting here, thinking back to our last trip, we had an interesting occurrence. My DGF has a severe peanut allergy. We chose our airline based on the fact that the airline itself is peanut free. When we were coming home from WDW, we let everyone know about her peanut issues and such (airline, gate agents, flight crew, everyone). Well, as we're sitting in the terminal, a lady has a bag of peanut m&m's. I then notice, they're in our row. My DGF goes up to the gate agent and tells them about this. The bag of peanuts was allowed on the plane. As we sit, the lady with the m&ms puts them in the pouch of the seat in front of her. The flight attendants for this airline came through, PRIOR to takeoff, stopping 3 rows in front of us, at our row and 3 rows behind us. At each stop, they say "we kindly ask that you refrain from eating any products that contain peanuts or tree nuts as there is a person with a severe allergy within this buffer zone and if you would like to consume them to go to the front or rear galley of the plane to do so." Ok, seems like we'll be fine. Well, we get over the Georgia/SC border (in the air) and this lady cracks open the m&ms. DGF starts having issues (not enough for the epi but close). I get the flight attendants involved, they tell this lady again to stop (she had the balls to say she thought it was just for "during takeoff") and she didn't. Longer story short, we did make it home, flight attendants were very helpful and very upset with the lady (the pilots weren't thrilled either... we had a high ranking gov't official on our flight, so there were definitely air marshals and FBI on our flight most likely). To add insult to injury, this lady then wiped her hands on EVERY SINGLE headrest on her way out of the plane.
My question is... What happens in an emergency in the air? I'm sure if we needed the epi, that would've hopefully helped give us time, but what happens should things go downhill fast? I'd hope an emergency landing to get medical help and a booting off the plane for the people that were ultimately responsible for the event. But has anyone ever had to have extreme measures done and what happened?
For the record, we'll use that airline again, we just had a very rude set of people (sadly in our row) that couldn't resist a bag of peanut m&m's for 2 hours...