"user314" (user314)
09/05/2019 at 14:51 • Filed to: Planelopnik, airplane!, easyjet
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"user314" (user314)
09/05/2019 at 14:51 • Filed to: Planelopnik, airplane!, easyjet | 4
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VFX: Propeller sounds
Michael Bradley was recently waiting for his flight from
Manchester, England
, to
Alicante, Spain, with his family when the plane was delayed for two hours because of a missing pilot
The passengers in the terminal began getting frustrated with the delay – reportedly caused by staff shortages – which prompted Bradley to step up and offer to fly the plane
Sad ly, the older woman who’d been listening to him spill his guts for the last 45 minutes had already hung herself...
[...] fortunately for [the passengers] , Bradley was an off-duty EasyJet pilot.
As Bradley shared about his offer to fly the plane, he said he had his flying license on him, as well as his ID.
Just don’t ask about his drinking problem
“[ EasyJet] said, ‘We’ll phone you back’. Thirty-eight seconds later they phoned me back and said, ‘Please, please pretty please with a big cherry on top, can you fly the airplane to Alicante?’” Bradley told the passengers on the flight. “So if you’re alright for one of your pilots to look like this today, we’ll go to Alicante.”
A picture of the EasyJet official :
The passengers cheered at Bradley’s offer, and the group made the safe trip to Alicante.
jimz
> user314
09/05/2019 at 15:21 |
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mo-fo’n butter got me laid to the bone, jackin’ me up.
Cutty say he can’t hang!
Where have all the lightweights gone?
> jimz
09/05/2019 at 15:34 |
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VajazzleMcDildertits - read carefully, respond politely
> user314
09/05/2019 at 15:36 |
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I hope after he landed everyone clapped and then tipped him $20
facw
> user314
09/05/2019 at 15:55 |
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But did easyjet have a spare pilot at the destination, or did they have to wait for this guy’s vacation to finish up to fly the return route? (I assume they just sent an extra pilot on the next flight, or even a timed-out pilot on this one, but it’s more fun to think of the plane as stuck there for a week or whatever).
Turbineguy: Nom de Zoom
> jimz
09/05/2019 at 16:54 |
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“ Oh stewardess.. I speak jive. .”
Ash78, voting early and often
> user314
09/05/2019 at 16:55 |
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Excuse me, miss — I speak Manc.
/nun pulls out a guitar, starts playing
Wonderwall
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jimz
> Turbineguy: Nom de Zoom
09/05/2019 at 21:01 |
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what it is, Big Mama, my mama didn’ raise no dummy! I dug her rap!
pip bip - choose Corrour
> user314
09/06/2019 at 05:23 |
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tell Stelios to get some more staff
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Turbineguy: Nom de Zoom
> jimz
09/06/2019 at 21:55 |
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“ Chump don’t want no help, chump don’t get no help. ”
SBA Thanks You For All The Fish
> user314
09/12/2019 at 10:37 |
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Drambuie has an aviation school that’s right up there with Embry-Riddle.