My worst flying experience was a few years ago at the Grand Canyon. I strapped on some home-made wings, complete with feathers, and took off. Problem was, I just went straight down, instead of flyig across the canyon. It was a very disappointing experience for me. Seriously though, I have never had a bad flying experience, unless you count eating some of the food... ------------------ Protrolls.com! I wish I could come up with a decent signature, but I can't. You'll just have to live with this one.
Flying doesn't normally bother me, unless I am flying with my mother who is so afraid of flying that she makes everybody around her nervous. But once when I was 15 I was flying from Dallas to New York City and round about Nashville, we lost an engine. In retrospect, it wasn't that big of a deal, but at the time, it seemed a bigger deal than it was. There was a noticable jolt when the engine went out and the camptain came on right then to tell us we were making an unscheduled landing in Nashville. So, I was a bit nervous about the whole thing, and I guess it was obvious that I was nervous because the little girl next to me (who couldn't have been more than maybe 2 years old) looked up at me and said, "You can hold my hand if you're scared". I didn't take her up on it, but I was a bit scared (and didn't feel better until we were safely on the ground. Even Nashville looked good that day). But that experience didn't turn me off from flying. As a matter of fact, I didn't have any problems or worries when we got on our replacement plane to New York a few hours later. ------------------
But did you fall straight away? Or did you not fall until the Road Runner held up a sign that said "Humans Can't Fly" or something like that? ------------------
My memory of the event is kind of hazy. Those head injuries were severe, you know. ------------------ Protrolls.com! I wish I could come up with a decent signature, but I can't. You'll just have to live with this one.
Ok I've had a lot of bad ones. Needless to say I hate flying. Ok in 1990 my family and I were on a plane coming back from Germany(right after they won the World Cup) and we hit an air pocket and we drop what seemed like miles(probably few thousand feet) in just one or two seconds. Man I will never forget that feeling. The second was when my cousin and I were flying from Vancouver to Seattle in 1994(this time right after Brazil's World Cup victory). My cousin was not allowed to come to the US for some reason so we had to hop on one of dem propeller planes. About 10 minutes before landing we hit an air pocket or something and drop a few hundred feet(again). My third and fourth bad flying experiences were flying from San Francisco to Hawaii, on the flight to Hawaii I decide to take a nap. While I'm asleep the cabin starts to fill up with smoke and people begin to quietly begin to mumble and start looking around, but the key thing is they were quiet. I woke up when I felt my girlfriends fingernails digging into my shoulder and when I saw smoke, well I....Now the funny thing is everyone was relatively calm before I woke up, no one was screaming or anything like that but when I yelled out the now famous "OH ****!!!" the whole back cabin began to panic until the captain told us that it was just the Air Conditioning bag that popped. Oops. Now on the way back from Hawaii one of the planes engines goes out. I noticed the ride was a little bumpy but just thought it was turbulence. Then the pilot told us about it. Now if the pilot hadn't told us anything I probably wouldn't have thought anything of it but when that b*stard told us I began to worry. On another trip to Hawaii while trying to find the Jamba Juice in San Franciso airport I glance at a TV screen to see that Air-France's Concorde has crashed. I was feeling a little nervous to say the least. And just yesterday I flew from John Wayne(orange county) to San Jose. Basically John Wayne airport has short runways, so for takeoffs you get to feel what its like to be a pilot on an aircraft carrier. The pilot basically puts the pedal to the metal. The thing is they use maximum thrust to get in the air then they turn off the engines for about five seconds. At this point both the plane and your heart drop. Now everything about the flight went smoothly including the landing, but while we taxied to our gate two fuel trucks hit each other not even 10 feet in front of us. Although they didn't hit each other hard(meaning no BOOM!) the thought of two fuel trucks carrying airplane fuel hitting each other in front of your plane is not a fun one. At least the pilot had a sense of humor about it. He circled the runway again so we could all see the idiots. However my worst flying experience ever was in 1995 when the Rockets were in the Finals against Shaq's Magic I was in Salt Lake City. Our plane was to leave SLC to go back to H-town exactly around game time of game two. Luckily the plane got delayed so I got to see the first half. Anyhow we board the plane at halftime and I'm trying to find ESPN radio. When I finally find it the stewardess says I can't listen to it. So I hide it, but it was still too obvious and she caught me again. This time she made me put it in the bin above my head. Well when she wasn't looking I pulled it out again, only this time when I turned it on we had gone out of range for the station and I couldn't find another station broadcasting the game until we got to Houston Well I guess they weren't horrible experiences but they sucked nevertheless. ------------------ "We need to FOCASS".... Akeem Olajuwon [This message has been edited by Scarface (edited June 27, 2001).]
i was scheduled for a flight out of LaGuardia to Houston last Christmas. somehow, my flight was overbooked and since I didn't have an assigned seat, I was bumped. This was bad enough, but I had TICKETS TO THE ROCKETS GAME that night against the Lakers. well, first they put me in a cab to Newark and sent me on a later flight, then they(Continental Airlines) offered me $600 dollars in vouchers. I tried explaining to them that i had ROCKETS tickets for God's sake, compensation does not help . it was terrible, I knew I was missing the game that night.anyway, Destiny's child walks up and it turns out they got bumped , too. of course, someone pulled strings and got them on the plane, and I finally made it to Houston hours later.that was my worst experience, even though i was compensated, it sucked. the rockets lost. ------------------ fitter, happier more productive comfortable not drinking too much eating well (no more microwave dinners and saturated fats) sleeping well (no bad dreams) no paranoia fitter, healthier and more productive a pig in a cage on antibiotics
http://bbs.clutchcity.net/ubb/Forum3/HTML/012620.html At least you didn't miss perhaps the most memorable Rockets game of ALL TIME in the post championship era... ------------------ "There are three kinds of lies: Lies, Damned Lies, and STATISTICS..." - Mark Twain -
For perspective, I get a lot of flying in for work and have logged over 100K miles a year for about 6 years now. So, last month I am flying into Philly and it is stormy. We are on approach and get hit by lightning--twice, then the plane does a 60 degree roll before we recover. White knuckler! Worst I ever heard about was told to me by a guy I was working with. He was on a flight that went into a nose dive starting at 35,000 feet -- the captain comes on and tells them to get into a crash position. They pulled up at 10,000 feet. The guy was never the same. ------------------ I let the dogs out.
