Don't worry, it's just a joke! Please, read to the end if you want to know what happened to me once
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I experienced my first plane flight in 2015. Now I have already 15 successful flights, 10 of them happened this year. I'm not afraid to travel by plane but once I had a stuffy nose and because of pressure I felt dizzy and my head nearly exploded :) Therefore I don't advise to fly if you caught a cold.
❗️And please, be aware, if you have a dog with a flat muzzle, you'd better keep your pet off the plane. They can't handle the pressure and some cases can be even fatal!
All my other flights were successful, except for these two:
~ In November we flew to Moscow for sightseeing. When we got to the airport to fly back to my home region Tatarstan, our flight was delayed for almost 10 hours. Guess why? Tatarstan sky was full of mist! Finally we are on our plane flying home and then a pilot announced that mist didn't go away and we are heading for the neighbouring Samara. There we waited 5 hours more and, FINALLY, really finally we returned home. This flights should have taken 1.5 hours, but in fact it took almost 24 hours!
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~ On our way home from Paris we haven't found our baggage in the airport. We were very upset because it was packed with cheese and wine! The next day our baggage was delivered to us, safe and sound. It turned out that someone mixed it up with almost the same suitcase!
How do you travel by plane? Afraid or relaxed? Some stories? Leave your comments below :)
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Over the years I have had hundreds of flights, mainly for business. Of these almost all were OK, a few delays of a few hours, one where the plane tried to land four times in wind and fog in Ireland before diverting to a larger airport.
Once in Libya before the recent wars, I flew on a short internal flight.
The plane was extremely old and was kept together by stealing parts from two other 727 planes. Take off failed as the engines did not produce enough power. Second attempt we got off the ground. On arrival I got off the plane to be met by a soldier in uniform who stuck a gun in my belly and indicated I should get back on the plane.
(We had landed at a military base, which the flight did not normally do.)
Next take off was OK then we landed at Tripoli.
The approach was a little low in fact it was obvious we were landing before the perimeter fence.
An enormous amount of engine power, and we were over the fence past the landing zone on the runway and going very fast. Remarkably touchdown was smooth but trying to stop was not it took ages. fortunately the runway is quite long but it did take a long time to get to the terminal after turning round.
I then found that the national oil company staff were not allowed to travel on the planes, so I did the same and traveled by road each time after even though it did take 9 hours longer.
Luggage, in hundreds of flights I had two flights lose a bag. It was the same bag on two flights within a few days. (Both times the bag came bag within a day or two. I changed the bag and never lost a bag again. I never lock bags as security people can open bags including destroying the locks to do so.
I don't worry about flying at all. Peter