I booked my ticket to Boston for May last night. My connecting flight is JFK airport in New York City.Today, a plane took off from New York, bound for Charlotte, NC and it crashed into the Hudson River.
Why? Because a bunch of birds got in the way, apparently got sucked into the engines, and it did a belly flop into the water.
Have I mentioned I'm sort of a nervous flier?
We can put men 0n the moon, watch tv on our cell phones, and text message a vote for the top 12 contestants on "American Idol" But we can't design an airplane engine that will keep a freaking bird from getting sucked into it and sending a 747 crashing to the ground?
You're telling me that I can google "Top 50 belly flops into a 4 ft pool" and get 300 responses and we can't design a plane that can handle a stupid bird? Where are my tax dollars going? It's definitely not going toward building a car that can handle a charging deer or an airplane that can deal with a 5 oz. bird getting sucked into a $2.5 million dollar engine.
As the cherry on top of this craptastic sundae, just last night I booked a flight to Boston for May that includes a stop at JFK airport.
In New York City.
Anyone know a "cleaner" I can hire to take out the Seagull population around NYC between now and May?
Mother Nature is overrated.
10 comments:
last time i booked a flight to go to NYC was Sept 10, 2001
and you know the rest....Im just sayin
oh and then when i went on the flight i booked which was Veterans Day weekend that year...the day I flew back out of Philly...flights got cancelled cos of this:
http://www.geocities.com/mknemesis/airbus.html
2001 wasnt a good year
Dude, I'm sorry...but I had to laugh! Not at the wreck...thank God no one was injured or killed. But at the fact that it happened right after you booked!
But I think you're good. Didn't it happen at LaGuardia? You'll be FINE! Just repeat this:
Serenity now...serenity now...serenity NOW!
Tex, you may in fact have me beat. And there is no way I'd have gotten on that plane after 9/11.
Mattie, this whole thing just proves to me that God has a sense of humor. Serenity now is right.
Dude... I just heard one of the sales people here was literally on that plane - same flight to Charlotte to see Lowes corporate - just a few days ago. Described it as a brand new plane- the Airbus. Eerie!
Redbeard, that is wild. I was wondering if I'd hear about someone I or somebody else knew.
I used to hate flying...till I had to fly to seatle, after that nothing bothers me.
It was a major step for me to go to Boston last May, Rich. First time in 11 years...
15 lb Canada goose not a 5 oz. bird and not a belly flop but an amazingly skillful landing on water.
Landing at Newark in a thunderstorm did it for me. After that, no problems flying anywhere.
Horsham, it was a miracle he landed that plane and NOBODY died. Amazing.
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