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Passenger Avoids Delay By Fixing Plane Himself
It would be a shame if an engineer on a recent Thomas Cook Airlines flight doesn't get a complimentary first class upgrade every time he flies. The engineer was on flight TCX9641 when it was announced that the trip would be delayed eight hours, while a mechanic was flown in to fix a problem. Luckily for the other passengers, the engineer happened to work for Thomsonfly Airlines, which has a reciprocal maintenance agreement with Thomas Cook. After about 35 minutes the man fixed the problem and the flight was on its way. A spokeswoman for Thomas Cook said, "When they announced there was a technical problem he came forward and said who he was. We checked his licence and verified he was who he said he was, and he was able to fix the problem to avoid the delay. We are very grateful that he was on the flight that day."
That's a problem.. just thought I'd show my ID and let you know I could fix it.
Did they check his score as a flight risk?
Yours In Communism,
Kilgore Trout
First they took away all the food and gave us peanuts. Then they went all the way and said, "Bring your own food". Now bring your own technician. What next? Bring your own pilot?
sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact
Shouldn't you get the death penalty for something like this? Seriously, this malcontent took work from airline repairmen. That is almost like eating babies. I say death to the traitor.
John Galt.
-Peter
No, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express....
During the flight he delivered a baby, performed a partial liver transplant, devised an experiment to test string theory, rescued Schrodinger's cat from the "box of death", and helped the elderly Fitzsimmons sisters join the "mile high club".
better than FA announcing "does anyone know how to fly a plane?".
Noted. Still strange in this day and age!
I can see it now, the toilet will be alway occupied by lazy cattle class who don't want to stand.
The USA's DHS has no jurisdiction in Europe....
YET!
Nah it has been over 24 hours, he would be in Gitmo by now.
Just because you are wrong and I called you out on it doesn't mean I am a Troll.
It's nothing, just push the 'reset' button, and tell the pilot 'no more porn on the plane computer!'
Actually I was thinking that they should make the repair crew regularly fly on the planes they service. I would be much more trusting of repairs made by people who are planning on flying on the planes they are servicing.
I Am My Own Worst Enemy
Pfff. Who is John Galt?
In a small country everybody has to do multiple things and local talent is never far away. This means all kinds of crazy things like the PM not having a "Marine one". Instead he just borrows a regular chopper and a flight crew from the army as needed.
This led to an interesting fiasco in around 1987. A chopper on route to pick up the Prime minister has technical difficulties and makes an emergency landing on a high school football field (You yanks call it soucker). One of the Army Helecopter mechanics teaches math at that high school so he gos out to fix it. Then he offers to fly it back to camp (Another bird picked up the PM while the repair was going on).
How is this relevant?
He crashed the helicopter on the way back to camp.
--= Isn't it surprising how badly I spell ?
Reminds me of a story about some Engineering lecturers on a conference who were asked whether or not they would get in a plane that their students had designed and built. Only one said that he would. When asked why he felt so safe, he responded that he was absolutely certain that the plane would not even get off the ground.
Unexpect the expected!