Re: Re : Concorde at Heathrow
when the concord has crashed on france , i was in the plane to corsica. i know where we landing .....frightened ^^
We were due to fly out on the Saturday after 9/11. We went and were on the first United flight out of the UK and I doubt anyone slept on that flight! Everytime you got up to go to the loo you felt everyone's eyes were on you. I flew out of Edinburgh in a Cessna 172 and that was interesting dodging between 737 and A320's. Scariest moment I had was on a Lufthansa flight from Munich to Manchester and I'm sure the pilot aborted the landing because he was in the wrong place as second time around the football pitch I saw close up the first time was much further down the second time!
Was doing a tour at Southend airport and the controller went pale and muttered something like "Oh F**k!" cause he thought an Air Malta (I think) flight was going to get stuffed into the runway!
Not sure which feeling is worse though aborting the take off as you are halfway down the runway and being told they are going to try again as the warning light has gone out or the just about to land and lets go around again.
Have been on a plane where they had to reboot the systems to get something working again. That makes you wonder if the are running Windows XP, counting 10 seconds and switching it back on again!
Talking of XP, I was at an ATM which was running XP and it was running in Windowed mode so you could see the desktop. It also had Windows Media Player running! Decided I wouldn't put my card in there.