Post #1555118
2026-04-13 02:11 UTC
@dysfun I was in a 737 taking off, and the captain came on and said "folks we have a warning light on in the cabin. It's probably nothing, but regulations say we have to land again and get it cleared. Sorry for the delay."
Landed the plane again, and once on the ground he said "hey folks sorry for that little fib earlier. What actually happened is we lost the port engine. But I didn't want to worry you until we were on the ground. We'll be transferring you to another plane soon."
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@andrewwillmott@mastodon.gamedev.place 2026-04-13 09:07
@TomF @dysfun That's how you do it. Re: the BA flight. As a small child I flew over that volcano several times (we lived in Jakarta, Indonesia for a few years), and even visited it on the ground once. Got to see it erupting, from a safe distance. Not sure if it was the same eruption that affected that flight, but it would have been a similar time frame. So that story always strikes a particular chord with me :)