Rich wrote:
> "jmcquown" > wrote in message
> . ..
>
>>>
>> (laughing) I remember sitting on the tarmac at O'Hare, there was no
>> air running. It was hotter than heck in that plane and they didn't
>> offer us anything at all. We sat there for two hours. They
>> announced it was "just a
>> little problem with the hydrolic systems". I'm thinking to myself,
>> isn't that what controls the wing and tail flaps? Ahem, that's not
>> a *little* problem!
>
> I know what you mean. I sat on a fully boarded United Airlines plane
> with no a.c. for an hour and a half before they finally announced
> that the reason for the delay was that the baggage elevator had
> "scratched" the fuselage, and we were waiting for an aviation
> engineer to sign off on the damage. After another sweaty hour and a
> half, we finally took off, and the pilot apologized and announced
> that all drink service would be free. The flight turned into a flying
> coctail party; we ordered drinks two at a time, and kept the stews
> running. By the time we got to L.A., most of us were pretty
> plastered. When I got off the plane, I ran around to the window to
> take a look at the damage to the fuselage. Scratch, my ass; it was a
> four-foot-long three-inch-deep crease.

No wonder they wanted you to be drunk! LOL I wonder what the pilot,
co-pilot and navigator were having as they prayed the plane would make it to
L.A.!

Jill