Have you ever had a bad flight experience? If so, what happened?

I ask because I’m flying in a couple weeks to Seattle so flying is on my mind.

Heres mine: Every year I travel to Seattle to spend Christmas with my relatives. Last year, I had my first connecting flight ever and I was by myself, although I didn’t do the unaccompanied minor thing (I was 14) and I had a connecting flight at JFK, I got on my plane in JFK and flew for around 5 hours to Seattle. Just as we crossed the Washington border, the little TV screen in the back of the seat which has a map of the U.S. and our flight path, shows a straight line from Washington all the way down to Salt Lake City, Utah. The weather in Seattle was bad so we couldn’t land there. So we get to SLC and the airport was pretty empty because it was so late.The people working at the gate where we got off said we could go to sleep and they would get us all on the first flight on the morning. So almost all the passengers got on the floor right there, including me, and slept. In the morning, we all woke up at around 6–7 AM, no workers in sight and the airport was starting to fill up. No airport employees helped anyone find a flight and we all had to go book our own flights, which I nearly missed and caught the last flight out for the day.

Awful experience for me and kind of has me nervous about flying again. What better way to prepare myself than hearing other bad flight experiences as well?