Did OS X just crash? (please see msg inside)

Yes, its very similar to a "crash."

It is called a Kernel Panic.


Also see Mac OS X: How to Log a Kernel Panic.

 

It was a Kernel Panic

As long as it doesn't appear again, you should be fine.
In the future, however, turn the notebook off when you're flying.

 

Yeah I got a KP once when I disconnected my iPod without telling the computer, but I've been fine since. Which means usually (and hopefully) it means nothing.

 

You may find some useful info in the panic log, though don't expect it to look like much more than gibberish if you're not a kernel programmer.

Open up Console in Applications/Utilities, click on Logs, expand /Library/Logs, and click on panic.log.

I can't see why you'd want to do this. I've always flown with my laptops in sleep mode, never had a problem. I usually use them on the plane, so it's especially silly to turn them off in that case. At any rate, this was probably a random thing and almost certainly unrelated to flying.

 

Thats happend to me once but something else thats happend to me, and this has happend about 3 times now, is that I open the lid of my MacBook and insted of hearing the drive noise and then seeing the screen nothing happens I
plug it into a power source, still nothing happens. Then I hold down the power button and it turns off I push the power button again and it boots up perfectly.
I see my desktop as normal, but only one thing had changed, there was an error message that read:

! Mac OS X quit unexpectedly.
bla,bla,bla,bla,bla,bla,bla,bla,bla,bla,bla,bla,bla,bla,bla,bla,
bla,bla,bla,bla,bla,bla,bla,bla,bla,bla,bla,bla,bla,
bla,bla,bla,bla,bla,bla,bla,bla,bla,
Quit Reopen Restart​

 

kernal panic= bad chicken at KFC.