I worked at Boeing in 59-6x years and I almost believe that one. I remember waking during a late foggy landing at Boeing Field, looking out the side window and recognizing a tall building where my barber had his shop. Scared h---l out of me since we were still a good distance from the field!! DeanS
Dave Tutelman wrote: > Well nobody changed the subject line, but I think we may have come back to > it... > > At 04:45 PM 12/13/02 -0500, Al Taylor wrote: > >...we lost our 400 Hz (generators) and all of our navigation and > >communications were gone. We were headed to Jax but decided we should try > >to get into Mia since we knew we could find it. ;-) Mia was socked in > >with a ceiling of about 1,000 feet. At that altitude, at night, in the > >rain, you couldn't find crap. There is a harrowing story here about how > >we finally found sight with the ground, but that is too long. There was > >nothing but a sea of lights. We weren't high enough to pick out the > >rotating beacon from the A/P. We flew for what seemed like a week, all > >over Miami, at 1,000 ft or less, looking for an airport. A couple of > >times we flew low enough to try and read the street signs to find out > >where we were. > > OK, old joke. > > Pilot of a corporate jet is flying some execs into Seattle at night in much > the same condition as Al's story. Of course, visibility is always lousy in > Seattle, and the pilot was having a hellish time trying to find SeaTac > airport. Dropping almost to building-top level, he noticed a light on and > somebody working with his window open in the top floor of a nearby > building. So he rolled down a window and yelled, "Where am I?" The answer > came back, "You're in an airplane!" > > Immediately after that exchange, the pilot scooted back up into the clouds > and, with compass and watch flew a straight course for the airport. > Dropping out of the clouds, he was on a perfect approach to SeaTac. After > the landing, one of the passengers who heard the exchange asked, "How did > you get enough to navigate from that?" > > The pilot answered, "Well the answer was completely accurate and totally > useless. My map shows very clearly the location of the Microsoft tech > support building, so I just navigated from there." > > Cheers! > DaveT -.-Spam and virus filtered by modusMail using Norman virus engine.-.-
