Heard this one from a guy at work a few months ago. Who knows if it's true but as he said, it's a good story.
In the 60's at a German airfield an un-exploded bomb is dug out of a taxiway during some work. The airfield is closed and all a/c enter the hold. After about 30mins fuel is getting low and a
rather pompous BEA skipper is getting agitated.
a/c: Can you really give us no idea as to when we can make an approach. It's most inefficient.
ATC: Ah yes, but it is not our inefficiency. It is your bomb and it has failed to explode.
No answer to that I suspect.
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