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We should have you at the gate in just under two hours–two and a half if we get pulled over.
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3124/
Title text:
We should have you at the gate in just under two hours–two and a half if we get pulled over.
Transcript:
Transcript will show once it’s been added to explainxkcd.com
Source: https://xkcd.com/3124/
I was on a flight to Richmond, VA, many years ago. Delayed delayed, mechanical something. We finally board and depart, and right in the middle of the climb after takeoff, the plane turns real hard and heads back to the airport. People were kind of freaked out, they weren’t telling us anything.
Back in the airport, we learn that there was some issue with the cabin pressure. They thought they had fixed it, they hadn’t. Eventually, they decided, “Fuck it, we’re going to fly across the country in this 737 at 7000 feet.” Maybe a third of the passengers got back on the plane, I was one. It was cold as fuck.
I think it was a co-worker who told me about flying once from one of the main NYC airports down to Raleigh or Charlotte and they’d been delayed, delayed, delayed by weather. Finally the pilots decided to Leroy Jenkins it and do the entire flight under 10k feet and using the weather radar to maneuver around storms that were dotting the east coast that day. I’m sure it was more formal than I’m remembering but he said it was by far the most unusual commercial flight he’d ever taken. This was within the last 15 years or so, well past when that was common.