At 4/23/99 05:06 PM -0400, Joe Geiser wrote:
>                                                                   ....  (Why
is
>it that even when a pilot is a passenger, they can't sleep on long flights?
>;)

I don't have a copy of the story that reminds me about, which purported to be a
true story, and though I suspect it was just another urban legend I can't seem
to find it on http://www.urbanlegends.com  so we'll call it a joke.


There was once a airline flight that found itself in the midst of a storm that
became extremely turbulent.  Several of the passengers were alarmed and it was
everything the flight attendants could do to keep everyone calm.  One of the
passengers had been quiet thus far, but gripping the arm rests of his seat with
white knuckled fear as he constantly looked out his window toward the wings
which were noticeably flexing under the beating the airframe was taking.

He finally called the stewardess and demanded to speak to one of the pilots.
She assured him that the pilots were very experienced, that the plane was a
very solid and reliable model and that they would be safely out of the storm as
soon as possible.

He took a deep breath and informed her that he was a structural design engineer
with Boeing with many years of experience, had personally worked on designing
that model of plane and that he was certain that the plane was never designed
to take that level of stress.


I suppose that there is sometimes such a thing as too much information.
--
Jeff Woods
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