Drug that wasn’t just sweet for once: A passenger gave a flight crew gummy bears laced with THC.Image: Shutterstock
After a flight between London and Los Angeles, three members of the cabin crew had to go to the hospital. They had eaten sweets laced with THC.
02/14/2026, 09:0302/14/2026, 09:03
Flight attendants are, by definition, high: most of their everyday working lives take place at dizzying heights above the clouds.
However, members of the cabin crew on a scheduled flight between London and Los Angeles experienced a different high. They were on drugs – without any fault on their part.
Like the British tabloid The Sun Reportedly, a passenger gave the British Airways crew gummy bears. “It is nothing unusual for passengers to give sweets to the flight crew as a thank you,” a person familiar with the process told the Sun.
300 milligrams of THC
Not suspecting anything bad, the cabin crew ate the sweets on the way to the hotel after landing. “When they got there, three members of the flight crew reported out-of-body experiences,” The Sun quoted the anonymous source as saying.
The symptoms worsened so much that the three flight crew members were taken to the hospital. Medical clarifications there indicate that the gummy bears consumed were laced with up to 300 milligrams of THC. That would make them the strongest marijuana edibles available anywhere, writes the Sun.
THC is the intoxicating active ingredient in the cannabis plant.Image: keystone
Luckily, the cabin crew didn’t eat the cannabis gummy bears until after they landed. “If a flight crew were to become incapacitated at an altitude of almost ten kilometers, the consequences would be impossible to estimate,” says the source.
That’s why those responsible at British Airways find the story anything but funny. They are looking for the passenger who planted the drugs on the flight crew. “He would be charged with several crimes,” the anonymous source suggests.
The cabin crew is now doing well again. As a precautionary measure, it was completely replaced for the return flight, says British Airways.
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