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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."
It really isn't fair to mod someone down as redundant when you can clearly see the time stamp on their post is exactly one minute after the original post... which is more likely, they intentionally said almost the exact same thing changing only one of the five words, or that the took a few seconds longer to review and submit a post than the first person did?
If only there were a way to mod down the modders who waste mod points...