UglyJetCaptain,
(Man you must have some ugly livery to claim that handle
)
This story reminds me of the TACA that flamed on departure from MSY in heavy rain back in '88. I had a TACA guy on the jumpseat who told me it was the Chief Pilots son who forgot to gas up after the trip up from Columbia or Honduras or wherever they were from. This jives with the CBS news footage of a 737 sitting on a Mississippi river dike in heavy rain. As the CBS van drives up, the F/O runs up to the van and says, "Can you get us some GAS?" ("Sure, I got me a five gallon can rite cheer in thuh bay-uk.") DOH! After this event, CFM converted from the "Madonna" cone style water-jammin spinners to the "Dancing Bear Nose" radial ablatement style which is all the fashion rage now.
I wonder how many passengers on that plane today realize they are sitting on a plane that deadsticked onto a dike --and then lived to tell?
PT
(The Banned One)
