Cecil: Maybe later when you are on another driving trip. I saw the article below on fox news but I am not sure you miss all of this fun. Of course this would only happen in New York right?? I thought you just stayed in the left seat and were entertained by the "stews"
MYFOXNY.COM -- A flight from Florida to New York Sunday night never got off the ground. That's because after the flight crew arrived late, angry and impatient passengers got verbally agitated and hostile. Apparently it was so bad, the crew wasn't comfortable working the flight so they refused to take off. Dick Brennan has the exclusive report.
robert
Robert,
Oh, the stories I could tell. I've had similar experiences many times. When you get in late from an inbound flight and you have an aircraft swap to the next outbound flight which, of course, is at the farthest gate from where you came in. By the time you get to the aircarft, all the passengers which were pre=boarded, are sitting there waiting. Invariably some smartass makes a comment like "we didn't get you out of bed did we?"
I used to fly the all-nighters which start out about 4 or 5 pm, and after several flights end up in Las Vegas around midnight and all leave about 1 am to all points in the system for the last leg. I did many of those ending up in BWI about 7am the next morning. Generally the late night flights were troublesome with drunks, smoking, fights, punching out a flight attendant or co-pilot, etc. I made many unscheduled stops to hand someone over to law enforcement.
Probably the wierdest events though happened on the normal daytime flights. I was sitting in the airplane in Denver one time waiting for the pax to board when I heard a commotion inthe back of the plane. One of the pax went wierd and started yelling and screaming, ran off the arplane shedding all his clothes, and by the time the got up the jetway into the terminal he was buck naked. I watched as airport police tackled him in front of some little old ladies.
Another time we were 37,000 ft over El Paso when the flight attendant called up and said they had a passenger who had a broken leg that was all swollen and black and blue. I asked if he had fallen or what and she said that he only had one leg that had no feeling and when he was boarded they snagged his leg on an armrest and may have broken it:eek:.
So here we had a passenger with only one leg and we broke it for him! We spiraled down into El Paso and delivered him to an ambulance. The company had a lot of explaining to do on that one. Never heard what it cost us.
Sorry to hijack the thread. I need my meds.
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