I remember flying over that and thinking, if something goes wrong with the plane there aint no emergency landing happening here.
It stretches for feckin' miles and I know it's the same for oceans but looking down at those mountains I thought there's no chance here
When I use to fly over to the states (Keys/South Fl), I always preferred it when they took the shortest land to land route, then followed the coast down. However, they could go the more direct and shorter route across the Atlantic and into Miami, I use to think like you on the latter, that if anything went wrong half way across we are fooked. At least with the coast route you could divert into anywhere that had a suitable size runway. Although that was probably a false perception .
That's the kind of stuff I'd think about lol. Tbh it's why (if it's long haul like that) I prefer to fly at night... so I don't see what I'm flying over. Hopefully get a kip in to pass the time as well.
I've stopped doing long haul now, it becomes a killer. Normally day flights out and night flights back. Us chatting reminds me of that plane crash in a desolate place, and to survive they started eating the dead. I think some of the survivors might still be alive - I bet they are fun at a restaurant, bottle of chianti and some fava beans.
I remember the film, think that was in the mountains too Think I've mentioned this before, but I was on a plane that took off and we had a bomb scare. Diverted over Oman which looked pretty much same as the Pyrenees. Miles and miles of dirty great black jagged mountains, just without the snow. Half empty flight so no one on there worth eating tbf.
This place ain't safe. I feel really sad for all the folk out there A 6.4 magnitude earthquake has struck southern Turkey, weeks after a deadly quake devastated the region. Turkey's disaster and emergency agency Afad said the tremor occurred at 20.04 local time (17.04 GMT). The mayor of Hatay, in southern Turkey, has said people are trapped under rubble. A 7.8-magnitude quake struck the same area on 6 February, killing more than 44,000 people in Turkey and Syria. Turkish authorities have recorded more than 6,000 aftershocks since that earthquake hit, but the BBC's team in the region said today's tremor felt much stronger than previous ones. Witnesses told the Reuters news agency there had been further damage to buildings in Antakya and Turkey's vice president said at least eight people were injured. The latest quake was also reportedly felt in Syria, Egypt and Lebanon. There is fear and panic and small aftershocks keep coming. Lines of ambulances and rescue crews are trying to get to some of the worst affected areas where the walls of badly damaged buildings have collapsed. A number of structures that were left standing after the tremor on February 6 have now crumbled, including a bridge. Many cracks in roads have become deep scars making it more difficult for the emergency services to get where they may be needed. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-64711228
We had to abort a landing into Miami once, one of the typical Florida storms came over, and I'm like he aint going to land this to myself, no fooking way, then next minute the thrusts or whatever kicking in to climb us back out of trouble, I'm like the captains bottled it lol. I swear the captain said at the time, that's the lowest you'll ever get to an abort. Another time going into Chicago, which had been giving tornado warnings, but apart from a bit bumpy in places we were fine. Although did get an early morning hotel phone call to warn of tornado, I'm like yeah whatever and went back to sleep lol. Then had some fruitloop who was in cattle class one time coming out of Florida, where we couldn't take off because someone they had been refused permission to the states, and were kicking off about being deported, so we had to wait for the cops to come and disembark them - all to do with when it moves from border control to cops or something.
Yeah heard that on the news, utter disaster for them. Can't even to begin to imagine what he must be like for them.
