Technical problems - now that's a phrase no nervous flyer wants to hear and even more so when they're about to entrust their being to a flying yellow sewing machine.
Flying to and from the Channel Islands is always an adventure in itself and, once again, this weekend's travel didn't let me down. Outbound on Friday from Bristol my flight was delayed and when we were finally aboard, the pilot explained why - the plane had got stuck in a pothole at Guernsey Airport and had had to be yanked out......I decided I didn't even want to think about that too much....potholes?!
Checking in to fly back the flight was showing a delay and we boarded almost an hour late to be told perkily by the pilot that it was due to a 'technical problem' with the plane but everything was hunkydory now and it was back in service.
Now that's where they go wrong - either tell us exactly what the problem is or don't tell us at all because those of us with wild imaginations are now off and running and are already in places we'd really rather not be......It may well be that a light bulb had just gone pop in the loo but I'm imagining propellors hanging on by a thread ready to drop off the minute we headed skyward.
Fortunately said propellors kept turning and remained attached to the plane but my suspicions that something was not quite right were compounded when we flew back at just 8,000 ft, far lower than normal, virtually skimming the sea.
Now I understand why the late Pope John Paul II liked to kiss the tarmac when he got off a plane, it clearly had nothing to do with arriving on new ground, he'd just flown to the Channel Islands in the past.....
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