I think they are going to want their money back
You know that lurch in your stomach you can feel when landing, that seed of doubt in your mind, does this pilot* REALLY have control of this plane? You know, the one the mind tries to dismiss because a) there’s absolutely nothing you can do about it now, if the plane’s going down, you’re on it and b) statistics-wise, there’s nothing to really worry about.
Well, I’m going to try hard to keep this headline out of my head the next time I fly: BA plane crash lands at Heathrow.
Yikes! Wouldn’t have wanted to have been on THAT one! (Apparently no one was injured badly, thank goodness!) But, you know, the other day, I could have swore a plane was coming down on me as I drove along the road near Manston airport. It looked out of control in the wind and way too low, so I checked my mirrors and slowed way down, hoping if it did skid across the road, it’d do it in front of me rather than on me. I thought there was a good chance I might die. Like for real. Now, I don’t feel my fear was so unfounded.
So, hey mom, I was going to send you an email last night to let you know it looked like BA had good-ish prices right now. Maybe they’ll get even further reduced now!
*After reading more about this, I’d like to clarify and give props to the pilot of this one. I think he did an excellent job getting it down safely. He can be my pilot any day! Though I suspect he might want some time off after this.
Friday, 18th January 2008 at 13:54
If it had been a United plane I would have felt sure it was because the pilot had eaten the food from the economy section!
Friday, 18th January 2008 at 15:24
They did a story about this on the Today Show this morning. Some of the passengers said they didn’t even know anything wrong had happened…they just thought it was a particularly bumpy landing. WHAT?! I’d like to think I could tell the difference between a “bumpy” landing and a CRASH landing. Good Lord. But good on, pilot! (Don’t you love my attempts to speak your lingo? :D)
Sunday, 20th January 2008 at 2:42
One of my co-workers landed at Heathrow moments before the crash landing occurred. I got an e-mail from him stating that I was absolutely correct that he should have flown into Bristol instead of London. I didn’t WANT to be right :-(.
I miss England. I just moved back to the States from there last October. Hilly runs in Bath were so much more fun than the flat terrain here.
Happy training :-)!