How The Plane Ride From Hell Became One Of The WWE's Biggest Scandals

Following a health scare in 2018 where he narrowly cheated death, Ric Flair gave up the hard-drinking, hard-partying lifestyle he was known for during much of his wrestling career. Back in 2002, however, the Nature Boy was still stylin' and profilin' like a man half his age, and it certainly showed during the Plane Ride from Hell. On a much more disturbing note, his alleged actions on the infamous flight led to a lawsuit two years later, as flight attendants Taralyn Cappellano and Heidi Doyle accused him of various lascivious acts that included, but were not limited to wearing a wide-open robe with nothing underneath, flashing the women, and sexually assaulting them on repeated occasions (via Grantland). In one egregious example of the latter, Flair purportedly kept Doyle against her will "from leaving the back of the galley of the airplane while he sexually assaulted her."

As documented by Pro Wrestling Stories, both Credible and Waltman corroborated the story of Flair flashing the attendants, with Credible even claiming that the 16-time world champion yelled his trademark "WOO!" while performing the sordid act. Flair would deny the allegations, while Cappellano and Doyle agreed on an out-of-court settlement with WWE.

Flair wasn't the only WWE Superstar who was accused of misconduct on the Plane Ride from Hell. According to Grantland, the women also alleged in their lawsuit that Scott Hall (aka Razor Ramon) and Dustin Rhodes (aka Goldust) made sexually suggestive comments toward them during the flight. In a separate incident, Rhodes made things very awkward with his ex-wife Terri, drunkenly serenading her via the plane's PA system until announcer and then-President of Talent Relations Jim Ross told him to cut it out.

Speaking of things getting cut out ...

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