Not long been back, was 2 days late getting home after a small fire broke out on board the plane 32,000ft up. The fire was very small and was easily extinghsed, but it filled the cabin with noxious fumes. The pilot managed to make an emergency landing in some far out airfield near the Canadian boarder.

 

It was a little bit scary, but that soon turned to frustration and anger as North West Airlines made a catalogue of managerial blunders.

 

After landing, they sent over a few technicians who couldn’t really do much, an air steward was then taken off in an ambulance, for what, I can only assume was due to inhalation of nasty gasses caused by this electrical fault which caused the fire. We were sat on this runway, not allowed off the plane. Eventually got a message off the captain that we were to remain there as they were preparing another DC10 to take off from Minneapolis with a new crew and some spare parts. He hinted that if all could be fixed then we’d be going back to Gatwick in the plane we were in as this airport had no baggage handling facilities what so ever. Unfortunately, this caused a number of passengers to revolt protesting that they’d never fly home on this plane.

 

After being sat on the runway for about 4 hours, this other plane landed. About 50 passengers who refused to fly on out plane waited to be allowed off while 3 hours were spent hunting through the plane’s baggage containers for their luggage. At this point it was about 5am, had been sat there for like 8 hours. Plane had ran out of food and water and the toilets had filled up, but 3 boxes of mineral water were then man-handled on to the plane.

 

Eventually, the captain signaled that they were now indeed ready for take off and we started to taxi out to this runway. Was nearly 6am by the time this had happened. We sat there, and sat there and sat there and nothing happened. After about an hour, the captain made an announcement that they were having some data problems (reads: runway too short for the plane’s current payload). After another half an hour of being sat there, the Captain then makes the announcement that this 2nd stand-by crew’s hours were almost up, so we had to return to where this other plane had landed and these emergency vehicles were waiting. After being sat there for a further 2 hours, an announcement was made that yet another plane was being flown over from Minneapolis. The first 120 passengers were then taken off an boarded the DC-10 that had arrived, we then had to wait until about 9am for this other DC9 to land before being allowed off and on to this one.

 

So, after boarding this plane, we eventually took off leaving a further 40 passengers on the ground who had spend the next 4 hours being bussed back to Minneapolis. After arriving back we were greeted by NWA staff who were handing out flight vouchers......$50 if you spend $200 or more on a flight>>>!!!??? WTF? A few passengers then got really irate and started ripping these up and throwing them all over the place. After getting back into the main building, we were told that we’d be put up in a hotel until about midnight in which they’d get another plane, transfer all out luggage over and fly us home. So we were given hotel vouchers and a meal voucher for the whopping sum of $13!!!!!! That’s about £7!!!!!!! This was supposed to be sufficient for yet another 14 hours wait after being stuck on a plane for 14hours already with nothing to eat!!!!!!

 

Those that were in the Sheraton hotel were then told to make their way onto the main concourse area at the front of this particular terminal to await transportation which we were assured would be there within 5 mins, Of course no one had their luggage because it was still on the plane which was about 200 miles away.

 

After waiting, no transport turned up, so a group of us got a taxi, including this drop dead gorgeous Korean girl who I’d kinda befriended at this point.

 

So, we get to this hotel, must have been about 11am by now. Stood and queued at the information desk and eventually got given a hotel room, which was actually quite nice. Only trouble being that due to its layout it had some kind of central atrium which had leisure areas and a swimming pool in the middle. This was full of screaming kids and my hotel room backed onto it...so what didn’t happen? Yes, no sleep again!

 

Managed to get some food later on with this Korean girl who then suggested we go for a sauna. She wasn’t in the least bit shy and decided to sit there with her tits out and the smallest of towels round her waist. I struggled to hide a full-on-robo-chubby that had started to develop in my nether regions. After sitting in the sauna for about an hour and watching her sweat profusely, she then suggested that we take a cold bath in this HUGE whirlpool bath that she fortunately had in her bath...needless to say, I didn’t know where to look as she stripped off totally! She had the body of a goddess!!.....anyway that was the only mildly interesting part of this whole episode.

 

Managed to get onboard this bus to take us back to the airport for about 11pm. I then kicked up a stink with the NWA staff at the airport and demanded they give us some more food vouchers, which they did....$10 this time which wasn‘t too bad as I managed to pig-out on meatball marinara at the Subway that were there!! Boarded the plane about 11.30 only to then be told by this new crew on the new plane that, yes, they were going to again delay the take off of this flight due to crew shortages! I flew off the handle at this point and stormed off the plane and gave the flight manager probably the biggest *****cking of his life. He turned bright purple and just didn’t know what to say. Felt a bit sorry for him later on, but after all that grief to then be told that this flight was going to be delayed was far being humor at this point.

 

Eventually, they managed to get another staff member and the plane took off at about 1.30am. The flight home was actually quite good fun as most people had made friends with each other and just spent the next few hours taking the piss out of the whole event before drifting off into some kind of unconscious state until we landed.

 

So after getting through 3 planes and 4 crews, I eventually landed at Gatwick 36hours late and sleepless for 2 days!

 

Shall be endeavoring to get every last penny back for my flights with NWA after what they put us through. I think it’s the least they can do. I’ve lost 2 days of work because of it.

lol, somewhere on a korean forum there is a hot chick with a great body talking about some dude in a whirlpool who didn't know how to take every hint she threw at him :D :rofl:

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Uh... Si, I tend to be a bit slow on the uptake with women myself. Not too hot at picking up on the signals, blah, blah.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dude.... SHE TOOK *ALL* OF HER CLOTHES OFF IN FRONT OF YOU!!!!!!!!!

 

 

 

ALL of them.

 

 

This is *not* normal. Even I might have spotted that.

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dude, unless there was something dangling between her legs that shouldn't be there, why the hell didnt you take your frustrations out on her ;) that's pssd me off more than your 36-hour delay!!!! :rant: :rant:

Welcome back Si!

 

And your story is exactly why I can't be arsed with the flying thingy.......

 

........but the Korean girl brightened up the whole thing though, eh?

 

Hope you had a good holiday mate, and don't worry about the comments above. After all that I'd probably be too stressed to take the hint as well :wack:

 

Richard :cool:

Fecking hell Si, think the two of you should have relaxed each other a bit there if you catch my drift!

dude you gotta be joking :shock: after all that you never tonked it :rofl: :rofl: either your so much of a gentleman your just unreal,or you need to ask questions about which team your gunna bat for in future :p

 

wellcome back quentin :dance:

the post title suggested a horror story... but tangled deep inside that story is some real gripping stuff, si's love story!

 

oh and btw the fire was nothing to do with me!

dude, unless there was something dangling between her legs that shouldn't be there, why the hell didnt you take your frustrations out on her ;) that's pssd me off more than your 36-hour delay!!!! :rant: :rant:

maybe thats why he didnt try. if there was something dangling then maybe he would of .

Si, did she say at any time...

me love you long time , only one dollar :x:

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wellcome back quentin :dance:

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