What would you do?

[justapax]

Drifting off topic again, when my father was liberated from Auschwitz, he took a plane (a DC-3 or C47, he was quite vague about this) for repatriation. There was oil sleeting over the wing from one engine. Dear God he thought, I've survived 4 years in prison and the Death March, now I'm going to die on the flight home. The pilot feathered the engine, and made a single-engine landing.

[PV1]

A Herald enroute from Portugal to The Canaries. FA enters the flight deck and reports to the Captain that a passenger has said there is oil leaking from one of the engines. The Captain replied in his north country accent “eh don’t worry love it will be dark soon and they won’t see it.

[nonsense]

Originally Posted by justapax

Drifting off topic again, when my father was liberated from Auschwitz, he took a plane (a DC-3 or C47, he was quite vague about this) for repatriation.

I can't help feeling that if you've just emerged from four years in Auschwitz, knowing decades later that you were on either a DC-3 or a C47 but not quite being sure which isn't really being "quite a bit vague"!

[GROUNDHOG]

Posted this before but many years ago working as a redcap I witnessed a loaders truck reverse in to the prop of a Viscount (not one of ours). I elected to tell the flight deck what I had seen, thought a small OK thanks for telling us might be appropriate but just got a rather frosty reception. Still believe I did the right thing, don't know if they ever checked the prop.

[PAXboy]

May I suggest that: After emerging from a concentration camp - some things would be vivid in your mind and others vague. Under stress, the brain handles memory in a different way. Likewise, when that stress is released. Research into witnesses and survivors of aircraft prangs have learnt that they may here two different stories from two people who were standing/sitting next to each other.