Originally Posted by PaperTiger
'Eyewitness' account on
BBC.
BA then offloaded all the bags from the plane. We were handed a lost luggage claim form and told to fill it in and that we might get our luggage back in a few days.
We finally landed in New York at around 0330.
I had no phone, no laptop or car and house keys.
My house keys were in my luggage, so in the early hours of the morning I had to break into my own house, which set the alarm off and I had to explain to the police what had happened when they arrived to investigate the alarm.
No need of a "boom" to trigger a mess.
And I'm not only talking about this particular case/flight.