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John Hill
 
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Amusing and curious incidents as a passenger.

OK, air travel is not all horror stories for passengers is it? So lets hear some interesting and or curious experiences here!

I will start, circa 1974 a flight from Fiji to Rarotonga with a technical stop at Samoa. Both legs were a number of hours on a Hawker Siddely 748 twin turbo prop with about 40 passenger capacity. Just after take off one of the bare footed stewardesses taped an 'out of order' notice to the toilet door. From then on everyone sat with their legs crossed looking at the blue Pacific roll slowly by below us. It was after dark when we landed for the technical stop at Faleolo (Samoa) where I was one of the last passengers to leave and I did so the stewardess take the notice off the toilet door and a Samoan man I had never seen before came out, looked around then followed me down the steps and disappeared into the darkness. The cabin crew were smuggling friends or family!
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