WHEN comedian Michelle Brasier boarded the plane home after performing at Edinburgh Fringe, she never imagined what was to come.
In September 2022, the Australian comic had settled in for the seven hour flight from Edinburgh, to her stopover in Washington DC.
After a successful run at the world famous comedy festival, Michelle was riding on a high without a care in the world.
“I’d had a wonderful time doing comedy and tripping over cobblestones,” she says.
“I was sitting in a window seat watching a documentary about pandas, when I became aware of the turbulence we were in.
“There was a storm outside and the plane was being thrown about.”
Michelle explains that the turbulence then became so bad that the plane felt ‘like …