Occasionally, airline attendants make an effort to make the “in-flightsafety lecture” a bit more entertaining. Here are some real examplesthat have been heard or reported:
“There may be 50 ways to leave your lover, but there are only 4 waysout of this airplane…”
“Your seat cushions can be used for floatation, and in the event of anemergency [...]
Never fly in the same cockpit with someone braver than you.
Richard Herman, [...]
That’s not flying, that’s just falling with style.
— Woody, from the 1996 movie ‘Toy Story,’
regarding [...]
Kudos to Chesley B. “Sully” Sullenberger and the rest of the crew of the U.S. Airways jet that landed in the Hudson River today!
Landing the airplane perfectly so that all 155 passengers are alive and mostly uninjured is an accomplishment we can all hope we could aspire to if called upon.
Getting all of the passengers to [...]
Pilot to Tower: Pilot to tower . . . I am 300 miles from land . . . 600 feet over water . . . and running out of fuel . . . please instruct!
Tower to pilot: Tower to pilot . . . repeat after me: “Our Father, which art in heaven . . .”
From “The [...]
One day, the pilot of a Cherokee 180 was told by the tower to hold short of the runway while a DC-8 landed. The DC-8 landed, rolled out, turned around, and taxied back past the Cherokee.
Some quick-witted comedian in the DC-8 crew got on the radio and said: “What a cute little plane. Did you make [...]
I ran across the following and was astonished to find that we apparently the U.S. had some really weird airport laws before 9/11!
The following are actual laws from a variety of places in the United States
Excerpts from Private Pilot, November 1987
IT IS AGAINST THE LAW FOR A PILOT TO TICKLE A FEMALE FLYING STUDENT UNDER HER CHIN [...]