Airplane Stories

Big Surprise In Little Lavatory

April 12, 2010 Airplane Stories

A colleague and I had to visit a company that was holding an open day in Stuttgart. They had laid on a plane for all potential customers. We got to the charter base and saw three Learjets parked outside – “sweet” we all thought. After about an hour we heard a sound like a ride-on [...]

Read the full article →

Plane Hits A Flock Of Birds

March 6, 2010 Airplane Stories

This past Sunday provided an up close and personal assessment of the airline industry, an industry that has seen considerable changes culminating with many major airlines going through bankruptcy. My wife Terri and I boarded Northwest Indianapolis bound flight leaving Bradley International Airport Hartford, Connecticut. It should be noted that Northwest Airlines is suffering through [...]

Read the full article →

Sick And Tired Of Being Asked To Change Seats

February 21, 2010 Airplane Stories

This happened on a flight from San Francisco to New Orleans connecting through Dallas. I was flying to visit family for a long weekend and had packed just a small carry-on. My flight to DFW was easy and hassle free. However, once I boarded the plane to go to New Orleans things got interesting. I [...]

Read the full article →

Wind Chill

February 21, 2010 Airplane Stories

When I was 18 my girlfriend, my mother and I were travelling back home to the UK after a wonderful adventure on Tenerife, one of the Canary Islands off the coast of West Africa. We would be flying to Manchester in the UK, in a total three hour flight. I had a rather painful sunburn on [...]

Read the full article →

Door Covered With Frost

February 17, 2010 Airplane Stories

OK, I grew up both in the US and Japan so I grew up flying. This flight goes down as by far the WORST flight of my life!!!! I now live in Rome, but I spent a lovely 2 weeks vacation in Japan and I was coming back to Rome on Finnair. After one of [...]

Read the full article →

Tense Landing In Tegus

February 12, 2010 Airplane Stories

I’ve flown frequently from the US to Tegucigalpa (Tegus), Honduras these past 2 years. Apparently, pilots have to have “special training” to land in Tegucigalpa because it’s like in a “bowl”… meaning they have to drop down suddenly in the mountains to land. I know this, I brace for this, but every time I land [...]

Read the full article →

Leak In The Drinking Water Tank

January 20, 2010 Airplane Stories

Several years ago, on a trip from Hartford to San Francisco, we had to change planes at ORD.  We were on United. The first leg of the trip was uneventful (in the words of John Cleese: “it was relatively crash-free”).  We had a short connection, but we made it to our gate in time.  We [...]

Read the full article →

A Special Moment Between Passengers

January 9, 2010 Airplane Stories

While seated and waiting for the rest of the passengers to board a full flight from Seoul to San Francisco, the large coffee I drank prior to boarding began to have a laxative affect. I thought I could wait to use the lavatory until we were airborne but my body disagreed so off I went. [...]

Read the full article →

Truck Collides With Airplane

January 1, 2010 Airplane Stories

I fly quite often on various different airlines throughout the year, however I never seem to have a lack of issues with travel. Recently, I was on a flight from Los Angeles to Denver. The flight was initially running a little bit late, but at first was nothing to worry about. I had been bumped [...]

Read the full article →

Stuck In The Crapper

December 29, 2009 Airplane Stories

Good Morning Friends! Several of you may have received a rather cryptic text message from me yesterday that may have seemed like a riddle…”guess who got stuck in an airplane lavatory for over an hour?” is the question that was posed. Well, the answer to that riddle, folks, is ME. However, some of you may [...]

Read the full article →

Page 3 of 612345...Last »