Three typically unflappable business travelers recount trips that went absurdly awry—including one straight out of ‘Airplane’Vice president, product management at Google, overseeing travel tools
On a flight from San Francisco to Montana, the pilot announced the landing gear was stuck and we had to circle back for an emergency landing. Flight attendants began flipping through instruction manuals, striking fear in all of us. My first reaction was to move to the exit row, knowing if we had to get out fast, I wanted to control the door. I sat next to an off-duty flight attendant who kept saying “I don’t want to die.” Meanwhile, I’m...
illdoyournails on same trip hit by lightning twice, total blackout in the cabin, no word from the cockpit for 20 mins, then landed to bombs going off, lost luggage, had a contract out on me, got gastric flu, left on the last flight before a coup, but the in flight food was good & weather nice!
Tie for my Worst: 1) Soft field (no landing gear) landing in London Flight Attendant was hysterical yelling “put your heads in-between your legs” 2) United Express small plane floor “opened” & had to stay in seat & keep legs up to not fall out. (That was “drafty”)
Earlier in the flight, one of the co-pilots was Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
iirc the copilot had a pleasant journey
Surely you must be serious
EddeRoger too often...
Yes, unfortunately! A 6x3 piece of the fuselage came off the plane at 32K feet. The air was literally sucked out of our lungs. Steward bloody on the ground. Plane had to nose dive to 11K feet so we could breath. Took me a year to get over it.
Yawn
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