Boy, there is some fabulous choice of words in that Vanity Fair article. For example in the part telling the story of an Airbus 330 that ran out of fuel over the Atlantic. Both engines are going out, the flight attendants have instructed passengers to don life vests, the main lights have failed, the PA system goes dead and then finally "as the cabin pressure leaked away, the oxygen masks automatically dropped, and this caused another round of fussing."

Yeah, I bet those passengers were "fussy" alright.