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[Cheering]

[narrator] After a
sellout European tour,

the World Wrestling
Federation's top stars and

management boarded a
private 757 jet in London

to return home.

Every seat on the plane
was a first class seat.

It cost us a lot of money,
but it made it more

convenient for the
talent to travel.

What was supposed to be
a triumphant flight in

decadence, descended into a
nightmare at 30,000 feet.

The party starts when you
get on them flights and

you just start drinking.

But, that night, it was,
it was too much.

When you have an open bar...

and you're sitting
there for 7 hours,

of course, these things
are gonna happen.

Naked men with robes.

Guys passing out, drinking,
busting each other open.

Cutting pony tails off.
Sounds like hell to me.

Like, I just knew, okay,
the boys are being boys and

I'm not going back there at all.

I remember thinking, like,
is somebody

gonna say that this
has gone too far?

The talent was just crazy.

I mean, they were great guys,

don't get me wrong.

They acted like asses...

children.

The midair collision between
intoxicated wrestlers and

a flight crew determined to
prevent an all-out disaster

would erupt into one of
wrestling's most

infamous scandals.

I think people have no idea
what really goes on sometimes,

especially back then
in pro wrestling.

And this is just like
a capsule of what

pro wrestling was
like in that era.

It was just a normal
occurrence for

a crazy bunch of
wrestlers on a plane.

It seems like a crazy story
to probably everyone who is

watching this, outside of
professional wrestlers.

If I never talked about that
fucking Plane Ride From Hell

again in my life,
I would be very happy.

♪

[Cheering]

The deal is finalized with WCW.

However, the contract reads,
"Shane McMahon".

Oh, my god!

By the early 2000s,

the WWF is riding a wave of
unprecedented success,

with a roster of breakout stars

and sellout crowds
across the world.

Business was going
really well for the WWE.

Selling tickets,
Pay Per View buy rates...

everybody was making money.

Madison Square
Garden is sold out!

The crowds were there.

Every night, you're selling out.

Everywhere you go -
Europe, in the States,

Canada, and everything.

I mean, our show was booming.

During this surge in popularity,

CEO, Vince McMahon,
acquires his competitors,

WCW and ECW, consolidating
the industry's biggest players

into an undisputed monopoly
of the wrestling world.

I, Vince McMahon,
bought my competition.

The bubble had
burst in wrestling.

There was literally
the WWE, nothing else.

If you want to make a
full-time living in

professional wrestling,
it was the only place to be.

My name is Tommy Dreamer,
and I'm known as the

Innovator of Violence.

It was a much different time.

There was holdovers
from ECW and WCW.

And we're all just trying
to find our way in the WWE.

- [Match bell ringing]
- [indistinct commentary]

...Dreamer, a former ECW guy!

You gotta wonder how long
he'd been planning

this ECW assault on the WWF.

I'm Jim Ross, and I was the

Vice President of
Talent Relations.

My job, in a nutshell, was
the overall management

of the talents that
appeared on television.

The WWF's roster exploded in
size and stature

by securing talent from
their former rivals,

while also welcoming
back returning legends.

What?
There's the Nature Boy!

We're partners!

Flair and McMahon
are partners! Yeah!

Ric Flair is a legend.

So many of our younger
guys grew up watching him.

Idolizing him, and trying
to take things from

Ric's game and add to theirs.

So, yeah, having Ric in
the locker room

was a positive thing.

I loved my job.

I loved helping build
that talent roster.

Because I think that having
those talents was a

great reason, perhaps we can
say the only reason,

that the business
went crazy and blew up.

Everything was getting better.

Millions upon
millions of dollars.

Thanks to the men and
the women that came

to work for us on that team.

As the momentum in
the States grew,

so did the momentum in
the UK grow.

In May 2002, the company
travels to Europe for a

4-day tour concluding
with a sold out

Pay Per View event in London.

It's probably one of the
best crowds when we go

overseas so, we're
always amped up,

we're always
looking forward to it.

And to be honest, the
pay's pretty good when

we go overseas 'cause the
crowds are so big, so...

yeah, I'd say the morale
was high and we were,

we were stoked to
have some good times.

My name is PJ Polaco and
you may know me as the

hardcore icon Justin Credible.

Some of the big names on
that trip were certainly

Stone Cold Steve Austin.

The Undertaker
was on the flight.

Scott Hall, Kevin Nash...

Brock Lesner was on the flight.

Ric Flair was on the flight,
and many others,

so it was stacked.

It's a long flight, and we
thought that by chartering a

customized jet that
we were being

as talent friendly as we could.

Unfortunately, it, it didn't...

it didn't work out well.

♪

My name is Heidi Doyle,
and in 2002,

I was a flight attendant on the
European charter for the WWE.

I worked for a company
called Sports Jet.

It was a private airline
that flew many of the

different sports teams
out of the Phoenix area,

the Phoenix Suns and
the Phoenix Coyotes.

We also flew the Utah Jazz
and the Mariners.

A normal commercial Boeing 757
would have 190 seats.

And our flight had
50 leather seats.

Bigger carpet than I've
ever had in my own house.

There's couches
and lounge areas.

It's just not a very
bad way to travel.

It costs a lot to
do it privately,

but you also get many benefits.

You get to order your own food,

you know what you're gonna eat.

You know you're all
gonna be comfortable.

You know that you don't have
to deal with anybody

of the general public
on the air plane.

You're just amongst the
group that's your people.

It's just nice to know that

we're not going
to offend anyone.

Like, sometimes when
the boys are on flights,

and they're a bit obnoxious,
it's kind of like you go,

like, oh, gosh, are we gonna...?

Sorry.

Hi, I'm Terry Runnels,
and I was a passenger

on The Plane Ride from Hell.

[Indistinct commentary]
a woman carrying a cigar!

I remember sitting in
the first class section.

I think Jim Ross was up there.

Linda and Vince.

The front had a lounge area,
so it was kind of like

your first class of
the first class,

I guess, of the airplane.

Generally, the coaches and
the managers sat up there.

And in this case,

Vince McMahon and his wife,
they were up there.

And then the wrestlers
were in the back.

So, I was in the back with
the majority of the wrestlers.

My responsibility in the
very back was getting them

their drinks,
getting the meals out to them.

They were hungry,
they wanted to try all the

different meals that
were on the airplane.

Ric Flair had talked
to all of us a lot.

He was very chatty and,
he was kind of like

the captain of the team,
I would say.

He had that kind of feel,
and he was very,

very nice and personable to us.

He was a little flirt,
flirty, I think.

99% of the time we had men.

That's who we were working with.

You just had to be aware
of getting too comfortable,

I think, 'cause that
can always just create a

situation that different
people can have different

thoughts of the level
of comfortableness.

But on the flight to Europe,
there's no problems.

♪

After an uneventful 8-hour
flight across the Atlantic,

the charter arrives at
its first stop on the tour,

Cologne, Germany.

[Cheering]

[Chanting]
Rob Van Dam!

[Cheering]

My name is Rob. Van. Dam.

WWE Hall of Famer.

And the whole damn show.

It's cool to see how you
affect these other cultures,

you know, and other countries.

[indistinct commentary]

They had some diehard fans,
let me tell you what.

The Germans were very into
the WWE and it was very,

yeah, it was an intense,
enlightening experience,

the match was.

Our flight attendants, they were
with us almost every day.

Some came to the show,
some were partying

at the hotels with the
wrestlers, at the bars.

In the 80s and 90s,
these flight attendants,

they kind of
would party with you,

hang out with you
in the back, drink with you.

Hello, I'm Michael Chioda.

Worked for the World
Wrestling Entertainment

for 35 years.

WWF referee, Mike Chioda!

Yeah, you used to go out,
meet up with some

flight attendants
down at the bar.

They might be staying
at the same hotel,

or you'd go to their hotel,
a 5-minute cab ride.

We went downstairs and had
drinks when the wrestlers

came back from the
first match in Germany.

We chatted a little bit
with them that first night.

It was my first trip back to
work after having a baby and

I was so enjoying my time,
resting in my room.

And getting to order room
service and not have to

wake up when, at all
hours of the night.

But I only went to the
one match in Germany.

You literally would
wrestler in Germany,

and the next day you wake up,

you're in Scotland.

It's, you wake up the next day,

you're in London.

By the time we got to London,

usually everybody's
really stoked.

I remember it being a
Saturday night because

that's when the
Pay Per View aired,

traditionally, over there.

And, it was WWE's
Pay Per View Insurrection.

The city of London is on fire!

This is Insurrection!

It was a packed house.

European crowds love us.

All the tickets for this event
sold out in 21 minutes!

I remember the show being solid.

The talent seemed to be
happy with their performances.

And, they were even
more happy to get

back on the plane and go home.

Well, I'd been away from my
daughter for the first time and,

it was... I was more than excited
to go see her, yeah, yeah.

The excitement to return
home is quickly deflated

as the passengers are
delivered troubling news.

Everyone took their seats and
we taxied out onto the tarmac.

And we got advised that

we were on a weather hold
from Connecticut.

When we were told that
there was a weather delay,

I bet we probably all
thought 20 minutes,

40 minutes, an hour tops.

Well...

we were delayed for 7 hours

before the plane takes off.

So, we sat on the
tarmac for a little while.

Commercial airlines,
you would all be familiar with

the small, little mini
bottles that you serve.

We had just normal bottles.

And, the liquor cart
ran out of alcohol.

And, another liquor
cart was ordered,

at their request.
And that was also drank.

So, that liquor cart ran out.

And then a third
one was ordered.

I've never, ever
done it ever before,

and never again.

Never, and we went
through three, yeah.

Imagine your
varsity football team,

they just won a game,
except they can't

get out of the parking lot.

And, there's cases
and cases of beer.

That's what it's like.
A bunch of high school guys.

To say it's high school is
really like giving it too much.

It's more like 5th grade.

Even though it was their plane,

in a sense, we serve
the drinks still.

But that became not the case.

They started to serve
themselves the drinks and

they didn't want our help.

I was very concerned about

the carts being replenished
on the ground.

If they were to
try to cut us off,

we would have
gotten to that booze.

Somebody would have.

Flair probably could have thrown
a couple thousand dollars

at 'em and said,
"Here, take this,

we're gonna get the,
we're gonna get that liquor."

We would 'a got the liquor,
absolutely.

I think the release that
they're finally going home

was cause for celebration.

They only got a small window
now to really

let their hair down
and become... stupid.

And that's what a lot
of 'em chose to do.

♪

After spending several
grueling hours grounded on

the tarmac and indulging in
an unlimited supply of alcohol,

the passengers aboard
WWF's private charter

are relieved as the jet is
finally cleared for takeoff.

I don't remember how long
we'd been up in the air

before it was very,
very evident that

we had a lot of drunk people.

Oh, shoot, the boys, they could
get drunk in one hour.

When you're doing GHB or
pills or anything like that,

Percocets or Vicodins and
stuff that were around,

you can do a lot of damage,
period, in one hour.

But it was always booze
and pills in the WWE.

And because we had
doctor's prescriptions,

and as long as you had a
doctor's prescription,

it was okay.

Of course, it wasn't because,

you know, we'd have doctors
write us whatever we wanted.

Halcions, GHB.
Placidyl?

No, the placidyls, I think,
were in the early 90s.

But I know there was some
GHB and Halcions on the flight.

Halcions were things that
we took sometimes

just to go to sleep for a
long period of time.

And, sometimes you
use 'em for a rib, too.

Way back in the day it
used to be called H Bombing,

and it was Halcions.

And I seen so many guys
dropping these H bombs

in drinks in order to get
the mark to pass out.

They shave his head, you know,

whatever they do.

Girls, local girls, you know,

were put out so the boys
could have their way with them,

while they're out.
I mean, this was...

[Sighing]

It was kind of normal

in some of the places
that I've been.

Never leave your drink exposed

because the boys
think seeing somebody

froth at the mouth and

slur their speech,
they can't stand up,

manage their own
faculties, is funny.

The story was out that
Michael got H bombs.

Michael Hayes worked in
creative at that point in time.

I don't know if he was
officially an agent,

a coach, producer.

They've gone
through several names,

they all do the same thing.

With the Halcion in his body,

and I don't know what else
could have been in there,

he was not himself.

And he made bad decisions.

Bradshaw had gotten split open
the night of the Pay Per View.

Oh, yes, he is busted open!

As Bradshaw is sleeping,
Michael Hayes just

knocked him in his head and
reopened the wound.

So now, JBL is
bleeding all over his shirt.

So, JBL slapped him
and knocked him out.

He knocked out Michael Hayes.

We're like, "Holy shit!"

Then I hear, like,
chanting for X-Pac.

X-Pac was one of the
sweetest guys in the world.

He really is.

Jay Strongbow used to call
him The Trailer Hitch 'cause

he was always following the
big load of Hall and Nash.

...I would love to
get my hands on Austin.

Yeah, yeah.

But he wanted to be
accepted so badly,

and perceived as
a main event guy.

Michael Hayes, had been
burying me in the booking

meetings and he's got that
fucking pony tail, that mullet.

So, as he's out cold,
I grabbed that fucking tail

and I lifted up
and I just went, whack!

I remember the big pop.

And it was like him
holding up the title,

but he had the ponytail.

[Laughing]

Back in the day, you were
not allowed to sleep

on those flights.

You would end up
with a shaved eye brow.

You always had to
have one eye open,

so to speak, when you're on
a plane full of the boys.

I had my hat on, my sunglasses.

Even though it was night time,

you had to wear all that
stuff because you didn't

know who was coming
by with shaving cream.

If somebody went to
lift your shades up,

you had a chance of waking up.

Or take your hat off,
you have a chance of

waking up and kicking
out real quick.

♪

The roster is especially on
guard for any potential hijinks,

finding themselves
in the presence of one of

the industry's most
legendary pranksters.

What else would you
expect from Mr. Perfect?

Curt, boy, he knows how to rib.

He was one of the best
rib-ers in the business.

Ribs started happening once Curt

came back into the company.

Curt would always
play with Brock.

Brock was sitting in
his chair and, Curt Hennig...

"Sh!" Put shaving
cream on his head.

He went, "splat", and
splat it on his head.

Boosh!

Next thing I know,
Brock is chasing Curt,

like a full sprint,
you know, like...

Wham, wham!
Brock went right behind him.

And then Brock
just swoops him up.

So now you have
Brock Lesnar, who's 6 "4.

And he's picking up Curt Hennig,

who's about 6"4.

They went into one row.

Like, a bunch of
the guys had to move.

So, they would go from
one side of the fuselage,

and then into the other, and
overhead bins got broken,

and tables got broken, and
arm rests got broken up.

Things started to break, yeah,

'cause they're just so big.

Like, I do remember
one of the seats,

like, the middle of the
seat came completely off.

And as a safety professional,

there's not a damn thing I
can do to stop these two men.

Like, there's not a damn
thing I can do to get them

to hear my voice.

One of the wrestlers
had commandeered our PA.

So, in the middle of
the fight going on,

we have someone
yelling at the airplane,

"We're gonna die,
we're all gonna die."

So, here comes one of the pilots
to the back of the airplane,

trying to get these
two men to stop

slamming each other
against the fuselage.

And they wouldn't
even listen to him.

One of our
illustrious agents said,

"You need to
come back here."

So, I go back there and
they're play fighting.

They just started
play fighting in the

emergency exit row.

Brock picks Curt up, and then
they hit the emergency door.

This was a big boom.

Everyone jumped up,
and we're like, "Stop, stop!"

It was their own teammates
that finally got it to stop

'cause they were scared.

I'm not a mechanical engineer.

I don't know what all it takes
to pop that security door,

but I didn't want
to find out at 30,000 feet

above the air.

You have all these people, "Ah,

could you imagine what
happens if that door opened?"

If you, you think about it,
it's physically impossible

to open that door.

They would have no idea of
knowing the door couldn't

pop out, but they were
throwing each other

against the fuselage.
And if that fuselage breaks,

the airplane can depressurize.

Now you're doing an
emergency landing,

and where are you gonna land
if you're over the Atlantic?

The weight and the size
that they are, of wrestlers,

I mean, they can go
through a wall in a house.

Why couldn't they go through
a wall on an airplane?

Because just the, the banging,

you know was, you know,
Brock is so big.

He was just a thick, solid,
big bear is right, man.

He was a solid boy, young.

This is scary!

He was getting a big push.

Brock Lesnar is an animal.

Brock was very new
to the business,

and he exposed himself to me

at the Insurrection
Pay Per View.

Like a real dick.

I remember that night,
I was doing interviews.

Trish and Jackie in
the tag team match.

I was backstage.
And I hear my name called.

And, Brock was in this room,
Dustin was in the room -

my ex-husband at the time.

And, Brock did
the whole thing. I, I...

no sold it, went to my
dressing room and

Dustin came, he's like,
"Don't sell it."

I'm like, "I'm not selling it.
I didn't sell it. Not gonna."

In other words, let it lie,
leave it alone.

♪

I had complaints about Brock
Lesnar's behaviour on the plane.

And, but I don't recall
any advances or reported

advances from Brock
to, to Terri Runnels.

Could it have happened?

Of course, it could
have happened.

It could have happened.

I did my job to the
best of my ability

to look out for the talent.

I can't follow everybody around

to see if they're
acting like an adult.

That should not be my job.

It really shouldn't.

♪

After the terrifying
brawl at 30,000 feet,

the passengers try to settle
in as the WWF roster is

due to perform on live
television the following day.

We've got TVs tomorrow,
you know,

it's like, let's get
some rest now.

I'm leaning against the window,
you know, sleeping.

All of a sudden, I hear
this very familiar voice.

And, Dustin,

my ex-husband, starts singing a

David Allan Coe song called
"Pledging My Love".

Forever my darling,
my love will be true.

Always and forever,
I'll love only you.

I immediately am like
[gasping] mortified.

Everyone that's just
drifted off to sleep is now

woken up by, yeah, it's bad.

I was about to get up and go
back there and tell him to stop.

But Paul E. was
across the aisle,

and he looked at me,
he's like...

"Don't sell it,
don't sell it."

So, I left it alone.

Don't sell it.

Because that's just the
smartest way to deal

with our business.
Just don't sell it.

If Dustin could sing,

it would've made it a
little bit easier.

But he couldn't carry
a tune in a bucket.

I did not like his behaviour.

I generally felt for the guy,

in the sense, he was
obviously hurting, you know.

That pain was real.

I don't like to see
anyone hurting like that.

However, he still should have
given me my microphone back.

It got uncomfortable,
it got uncomfortable.

Like, you know,
JR had to stop that.

You know, he literally went
up to Dustin and said...

Sit your ass down.

Go to sleep.

You know, give us all a break.

Eventually he passed out and
that's how we got our PA back.

He fell asleep and I got
the microphone from him.

If I was a flight attendant,
to be on that flight that night

would have been
probably one of the worst

experiences of my career.

Some young ladies just
trying to do their job and

just trying to,
to get home, you know,

I could imagine it being
very disheartening for them,

and scary in some ways,
I'm sure.

Hours into the flight,

the mid-air chaos shows
no signs of slowing down.

There was another situation
that occurred with Ric Flair,

for me, that was
very uncomfortable.

Sometimes as a joke,
Ric Flair would put on

his robe and not wear
anything else and,

walk that aisle like Ric Flair
and then open it up and, woo!

That's the big high spot,
everyone'd see Ric

coming out naked in his robe.

And so, he did it on the
airplane for everybody and,

that's what the
guys want to see,

that's what makes 'em laugh.

He could move his
hips and twirl it.

And so,
his well-endowed penis...

spins around like a helicopter.

So, hey, he's the
Nature Boy for a reason.

He's got a hammer on him.

He's the life of the party.

And, if you know him,
you know where

to exit the party and go to
your own safe place.

Or, you don't know the rules and

you find yourself in deep water.

And that may have happened.

And I was in the galley.

The galley is where our little
kitchen area on an airplane.

Ric Flair was
naked in a cape only,

and then he decided to come back
to the galley to get a Coke.

And then he
wouldn't leave the galley.

He had me back
against the back door.

And I couldn't, I could'nt move.

I couldn't get away from him.

I couldn't, I couldn't,
I couldn't move.

He was spinning around
his penis and

he wanted me to touch it, and...

he, he took my hand and,
and put it on him.

Ric Flair is not going to
try to impose by force

any sexual stuff onto anybody.

He's just flaunting style
and in profile,

and doing like the
Ric Flair stuff where

everybody's going
to laugh about it.

But, obviously,
someone took offense to it.

I remember him crowding
the flight attendant, like,

in the aisle way back
there by the bathroom

where it's like real skinny and
you can't fit two people

through there and stuff.

I remember him like
crowding her and,

you know, trying to make
her touch him and stuff.

[Heidi] And he kept me
back there for,

I don't know how long.

But it felt like a
really long time.

It wasn't short,
like, it was minutes.

And I asked him to please stop
and he didn't, he wouldn't.

♪

I don't remember somebody
really helping me except for

one, I believe Gold, Gold Dust?

Who had the mike.

I do believe he,
he told Ric Flair that

he should leave me
alone, eventually.

He should,
he should leave alone.

And maybe that's why I
didn't get as angry about

the mike as I maybe I
should have, you know.

I think he did try
to help me and

he was the only
one that did, yeah.

♪

Scott's issues have
been well documented.

He's documented 'em.

He had issues with
substance abuse.

We were not doing him any
favours putting him

back on the road so he could
resume his routines.

And we didn't do him justice,

but we didn't
know how bad it was.

And, and for those who
think we should have known,

well, we didn't.

You don't know until you see it,

you interact with it.

We were quite close to landing.

And I came to Scott Hall
who had just woken up.

I'd offered him
breakfast, and...

He grabbed my shirt and
pulled me down and

my shirt buttons got ripped.

And he had told me what
he was gonna do to me.

[Whispering] Yeah.

He said a number of things,
but what I do remember is,

as my shirt ripped, he told
me he was gonna lick me.

And then he proceeded to
try do that, which...

[Sighing] I don't want to
say scary 'cause that might

sound too dramatic, but it
was a moment of great...

violation, discomfort,
to have a person put their

hands on you without you
wanting them to do that and

to not let go when
you ask them to.

And to create a,
a level of fear,

when you're there to do a job
and you're doing your job,

and now you have to be afraid
that you're gonna get hurt.

It didn't feel to me that he was
gonna let go any time soon.

And then he passed out.

And I was able to, you know,
dislodge him from me.

I think that Curt H-Bombed me.

Because I've been taking
pills and drinking for a lot

of years at that point,
and I was out.

After that happened
with Scott Hall,

I never left the galley.

I didn't serve anyone.

And they got
angry at me for that.

They wanted more
food and drinks,

and I was done.

I didn't come out
of the galley again.

♪

After spending a total of
14 nightmarish hours

on the plane, the weary
passengers and crew

finally touch down
on American soil.

When they landed and I
heard the door open...

yeah, it was a very, very
excellent feeling to

not be over the
Atlantic anymore.

It was a long flight.
It was a very long flight.

The plane was trashed.

Blankets, pillows,
drinks, cups, food stepped on.

And a normal flight,
they're passing by

three or four times with trash
bags and this and that.

Well, this wasn't a
normal flight so,

I think Scott was passed out.

I think they were actually
worried he was dead, you know.

So, they were all
stressed, like,

they got a dead person
on this flight now.

And like, oh, boy,
don't worry, he'll kick out.

[Laughing] You know,
it's like...

he'll kick out.

He wouldn't wake up.

So, I'm picking him up and I
had to get him a wheelchair

and literally take him
through customs myself.

I put the sunglasses
on him, laid him there,

and he's just kind of, you know.

I had to get his passport,
had to say that

he had some kind of condition.

And there I am wheeling
Razor through,

you know, customs.
And there's Jim Ross.

He had the black hat on,

and just looking
at me with disgust.

And I'm like, I'm, I'm here.

I'm wheeling him.
I didn't do anything.

Once we landed,
Michael Hayes woke up and

his ponytail was missing.

And Michael Hayes was
pissed off about it.

He was hell-bent to
find out who did it.

"You know who did it,
you know who did it."

And, would have fought the
entire plane if he could've.

He was really angry,
he was really angry.

♪

And when we landed,
we started to pick up the

airplane and there was vomit,

and there was blood.

There was syringes found
in seatback pockets

in other places.
And I'm going,

"Oh, no, we're not
cleaning this airplane.

We're gonna get
off right now."

And my superior was saying,

"No, you need to
clean the airplane."

Me just walking
off the airplane, you know.

If that happened on Delta
or American or whatever,

when we got back to the States,

the FBI would have
been waiting on us.

There should have been more
repercussions, for sure.

There should have been some.

I don't know, they did
have repercussions,

I learned later, but...

They were only I think
'cause they knew they had

to do something, you know,
'cause it didn't look

real good for Vince McMahon's
organization, I don't think.

For better or for worse,
I'm taking ownership.

But it was a,
it was a black eye.

Good thing about a
black eye, you heal.

♪

Shortly after landing,
Vince McMahon and Jim Ross

urgently meet to discuss
repercussions for the

flight's most egregious acts.

I just couldn't believe
everything was getting

out of control with
Vince on the flight,

you know, but it did.
It got out of control.

I don't know.

I don't know what Vince
was doing this whole time.

[Laughing]
I wonder what.

Vince was well aware of it,
but it was my job to handle.

That's why I'm still
embarrassed about it

to this very day.
It was my job to handle.

Vince McMahon
makes the decisions,

but Jim Ross is the one
who has to execute them.

Jim Ross is the guy who
has to fire you as well.

Jim Ross is the guy
who has to tell you,

"Hey, you're messing up."

He's the guy who
has to fine you.

That's that position.

It wasn't a tough decision
on my part to cut some guys

from the roster because

it's what Vince McMahon
told me to do.

And the guy that writes the
cheques has the last say.

I was troubled by Curt's firing.

I just thought he had a
bad night with the boys.

He had a reputation of being
kind of a practical joker.

And, Vince had enough of it.

And you kind of
figure maybe, okay,

Curt got fired, but
then he's gonna come back

and circle his way
around at some point,

which he would have, I'm sure.

But, he passed away
not too far after that.

And Razor, I think it was
just his drug addiction that

kind of maybe just his career
kind of slipped away there.

We let Scott go

within hours after he got back
to the, to the States.

I was told to cut him, now.

And so, I called him
at home and, you know,

I just said, "I think
we made a mistake.

You're not ready to
get back on the road.

Until you're better suited
to handle your demons,

we need to put you back in
your comfort zone,"

which meant at home, primarily.

Dustin Rhodes is one of my
favourite people in the world.

We go back a long way.

I don't know if it was just
the rebound of his divorce

with Terri, what it was,
but he was in a,

a tough place.
But, no excuse.

So, you know, he was
dipping his snuff and

using a seatback cushion
as a spittoon.

I had two options: fine him

and I would get his
attention, or fire him.

Which I thought was extreme
and did not need to happen.

That was my call.

He learned from his mistakes.

He was immature.

He had substance abuse issues.

And, sometimes he controlled
'em and sometimes he didn't.

But the bottom
line is, is that...

we have to stop in our
society letting others'

transgressions go
without punishment.

[Sighing]

Good question.

Ah...

I guess...

lack of a better term,
he was a made man.

And he was such a high
level made man that...

he got a pass.

Was it the right thing to do?

I don't know.

You're listening to it,
folks, you decide.

He got a pass.

As the WWF deals with the
fallout from the flight,

Heidi is forced to
consider her next steps.

I remember walking off
the airplane on the tarmac.

Then we went to a hotel that
was quite nearby and talking

about how horrible, like,
and the girls from the front

saying they didn't
know that it was that,

you know, that it was that bad.

And then I just went to
my hotel room and

I took a shower and I cried.

I called Sports Jet.

They said that it was
unfortunate that that

had occurred on the airplane.

They preferred that
we kept it to ourself,

the story, because we work
with professional athletes

and things happen on airplanes.

And they let us know it was
expected that we would...

respect the
privacy of our clients.

So, then you have to
figure out how you tell

your husband,
"How was your trip?"

"Well, it wasn't excellent."

What do you tell your husband?

It can even create...

situations where
they say, "Well,

why did that happen to you?

What did you do to make
them do that to you?"

And I would say that might
be the worst question

you could ever ask somebody
who's been hurt because

you already feel a sense of,
what did I do?

Did I smile?

Was I too nice to
him or did I...?

And, then you feel almost
like you've done

something wrong, when I hadn't.

But I know another girl,
there was another girl

on the flight that was very
upset about things that

were similar, things that
had occurred to her.

She went to a lawyer and
then she contacted me and

said I should do that as well.

If I filed a lawsuit for
every time something

like that happened
to me, dear god,

I would be in court for...

all my adult life.

My sense of it was that the
company wanted to

address this matter,

take it off our books...

do the right thing by
those that had complaints,

and then move on.

There was an agreement
that was reached and,

and you know,
they offered us a settlement.

My husband just didn't want
the story told to the public,

maybe just to
protect our daughter,

or himself, us, I don't know.

So, he was very, very
supportive of the settlement.

It's sad that money has
to be that compensation,

like, I think definitely
truth, and honesty,

and change is more powerful.

But money is, money is
what ends up on the table,

I think, and then it
also buys your silence,

which then can add to
another layer of the guilt

of a victim, like it can...

it can be a cycle
that's not good, yeah.

Perpetually bad.

If that's how she felt,
maybe she should have

not taken a payout and went to
the fullest extent of the law...

to then truly put this
heinous person in jail.

My opinion.

People have their own
opinions of what happened.

What, what the damage was.

Though no one should really
have an opinion when it

didn't happen to them,
but they do.

They say, you know,
"Well, it wasn't that bad.

You're okay, aren't you?"

And now you have
to live with it,

a pain or a memory of
something that you didn't

bring about and that
takes some work, yeah.

♪

After the exhausting
European tour,

wrestlers and management
report for a live taping of

Monday Night Raw, a mere
24 hours after the plane

touched down in Connecticut.

We had TV that day, on Monday.

And, of course, the talent's,

"Hey, JR. Hey, JR."
"What?"

"Did you see what they
did to Hayes' ponytail?"

"No, what?"

Michael Hayes' ponytail
was put into a sandwich bag.

It was taped to the
locker room door

at Raw on Monday,
until I saw it.

And I took it down,
threw it away.

Exposure of these scandalous
events would mark a

turning point for the WWF,
propelling it to reign in

the public antics
of its performers.

In a symbolic twist of fate,
the aftermath of the

infamous Plane Ride from
Hell coincided on the

same day the company
was legally forced to

rebrand its identity.

Can you imagine that, JR?

We're getting the 'F' out.

Young talents coming in the
business after that era

had heard all the stories,
saw the remnants,

saw guys that had made
millions of dollars not have

two quarters to rub together.

And, I think they learned
from their predecessors.

[Cheering]

Nice job.

It's a different culture.
It's a different era.

I think that's the upshot,
and maybe good news,

that incidents like
the Plane Ride from Hell

smartened some of
these younger kids up.

"I want to be in the
wrestling business.

I've always idolized this guy,

but I do know I'm
not gonna pattern my,

some of my career
after this guy."

Make good choices that way.

[Laughing]

I think that there's
definitely a sense of

the cliché, never
meet your heroes.

The people who have watched
for generations and got them

through their lives, I don't
think that they all need to

see Ric Flair doing the
helicopter with his penis.

Like, I don't...

I don't really think it's
good for everybody to know

this about their heroes,
you know.

Some of these guys are freaks.

I feel this is trying to
portray someone

as a sexual predator,
and it's not.

It's a joke, it's a gag.

And, today, 1000% inappropriate.

My hairstyle is
inappropriate right now.

I am somehow offending
someone right now

with my double ponytail.

How dare I have two ponytails.

And my answer is,
I'm 50 years old.

I'm happy I have hair.

But, if you're asking me,
I've hung out with Ric Flair.

I've never seen him try to
force his will against anybody.

I don't feel that his
intent was to rape me.

But, what he did was wrong.

It was wrong and, he goes to
sleep that night and thinks

he made it back from his
wrestling trip in Europe and

maybe he has a headache
'cause he had

too many cocktails
on the airplane.

And yet, that night I
didn't go to sleep.

My trip to work, my...

my trip to get money to
support my daughter becomes

a memory that is mine
forever to live with.

Like, I get to live with
that fact I had to see a

naked man and get my face
licked by a man that I was

there to make sure he got
from point A to point B, safe.

And they went to sleep and
thought they made it

home safe and sound and,
so goes on the world, you know.

I was uncomfortable coming
to talk about this 'cause

you see some stories
told and then people get

ridiculed or they,
everything picked apart as

what they did wrong
when they're just

telling their story.

But, if one person that
listens to this says,

"Oh, my gosh, I might
have acted like that towards

somebody and I didn't
even realize I did it," or,

if one person hears it that had
something happen to them,

that they didn't like and they
didn't feel they could

speak about it 'cause
they'd get in trouble or

they were made to feel that
they created the situation

and might have
made it happen, like,

if it can change it
for one person,

I'd sit and have this
conversation 25 times again.

The truth,
the truth can be scary,

and the truth can
be ugly and messy,

but at the end of
the day, the truth,

it's the thing
that makes us better,

in the end, you know.

♪