Saturday, December 13, 2008

Aborted...Flying from Tulsa to Dallas.

I have had many weird experiences flying. The weirdest?? a baby being born midway; on an international flight from Frankfurt, to St. Louis, which forced us to divert our destination and land in...Montreal! This (legitimately) was to accommodate the mom, and the baby boy. But on my last flight I experienced a first...Sydney and I were flying from Tulsa to Dallas. We were on final approach into DFW, we were over the runway, maybe 20 feet off the ground...and the pilot aborted the landing! That was unnerving. Maybe there was an obstruction...or not, because here is the weird part. We didn't just come back around for another try. We got airborne, maybe 3500 feet and turned right. We flew about 5 minutes, made a slight turn and landed. I was sitting next to a passenger who travels from Tulsa to Dallas frequently. He said it seemed as if the pilot was trying to make the landing at the wrong airport! Love Field is also in Dallas, and AA lands there as well as Southwest Airlines now. He said, the direction of the flight after the aborted landing would fit with this. The passenger theorized that the pilot probably flew into Love Field everyday, and that this was a rare change in destinations. He, and the copilot for that matter, just didn't think...till the last minute. I didn't ask about it on my way out. I wonder if they would have come clean?

Have you ever had something like that happen?

3 Comments:

Blogger The Ponderer said...

"come clean?"

Are you talking about the airline or your shorts?

11:27 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I was landing in Rostov Russia and at the last minute the pilot roared the engine to miss another plane. Had to circle again and then land - I almost kissed the ground (but it was rather filthy :-)

Vanessa, had her flight canceled in Japan and had to sleep overnight there, but then got a business class seat for free - there's a happy ending.

4:02 AM  
Blogger Jim said...

Was that on this last trip??

11:44 AM  

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