April20
Ideal_Rock
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I''ve had a heck of a day today and was wondering who else has been through some craziness when flying.
I took the 725 flight to New Orleans this morning. I was only going for the day. I was supposed to land at 800 and had arranged to be picked up at 820 and at the first place I had to visit by 830. Aggressive schedule, I know, but I figured the worst that could happen was that I ran ten minutes late. N.O. was really fogged in and had a little weather. They said it should pose no delays. They announce we are in final approach and are landing. We are headed distinctly down when all of the sudden the plane WENT BACK UP. As in went back up, folded the landing gear in and headed away from the airport. And circled. No message from the cockpit. They finally announce we are landing again. We go into final approach and get so close I can see the airport, runways, everything. We get so close I can almost touch it and the plane GOES BACK UP. At which point they announce that in order to conserve fuel they are going to divert us to BATON ROUGE for refueling. I think they overshot the runway the second time and didn''t have enough fuel to pull the plane up again and re-approach if they missed. So we land in Baton Rouge at 830 and they announce they will try to have us back in NO in two hours. I got off. I rented a car and drove to my meetings. I found out later the plane didn''t land until noon. I had the 300 flight out and would basically have not been able to make any of my meeting if I had stayed on the plane.
That''s the craziest thing that''s happened so far this year. What are the craziest thing that''s happened to you while flying?
I took the 725 flight to New Orleans this morning. I was only going for the day. I was supposed to land at 800 and had arranged to be picked up at 820 and at the first place I had to visit by 830. Aggressive schedule, I know, but I figured the worst that could happen was that I ran ten minutes late. N.O. was really fogged in and had a little weather. They said it should pose no delays. They announce we are in final approach and are landing. We are headed distinctly down when all of the sudden the plane WENT BACK UP. As in went back up, folded the landing gear in and headed away from the airport. And circled. No message from the cockpit. They finally announce we are landing again. We go into final approach and get so close I can see the airport, runways, everything. We get so close I can almost touch it and the plane GOES BACK UP. At which point they announce that in order to conserve fuel they are going to divert us to BATON ROUGE for refueling. I think they overshot the runway the second time and didn''t have enough fuel to pull the plane up again and re-approach if they missed. So we land in Baton Rouge at 830 and they announce they will try to have us back in NO in two hours. I got off. I rented a car and drove to my meetings. I found out later the plane didn''t land until noon. I had the 300 flight out and would basically have not been able to make any of my meeting if I had stayed on the plane.
That''s the craziest thing that''s happened so far this year. What are the craziest thing that''s happened to you while flying?