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Yeah, sure Boeing, let's just give your planes a pass to get them in the air...this is literally the last headline they needed.

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"If it's Boeing, I'm not going."

I was on a flight that made and emergency landing once, it was TERRIFYING. The pilot circled once then we went down at a very steep angle.

What was even worse was the three days we were stranded in Gander Newfoundland while they fixed the plane and then flew in a new crew. It was basically an refueling/military base and not a real airport, no food or facilities. After that I never flew without my toothbrush, change of clothes and contact solution in my carry on.

Thats a decent setup for a Hallmark movie - two travelers stranded and isolated find love through the zaney activities used to pass time in a remote locale.

There's real-life precedent. In the same Gander, Newfoundland, even.

https://people.com/human-interest/couple-who-met-because-of-...

That's a very common (emergency) stopping point because it's the last major airport for Eastbound planes headed to Europe, at least until you get to Greenland.

And a fantastic musical based on that grounding of planes in Gander: https://comefromaway.com/

Perfect for a Broadway play.

Indeed: https://comefromaway.com/

Pretty sure that's exactly one of the subplots of Come from Away

Heh. Although was it was a very NON-ROMANTIC situation!! We all were in the same clothes for four days and people were getting majorly drunk and throwing up because the flight crew gave away all the alcohol from the plane to apologize for the delay.

I've never felt more gross in my life or had a nicer shower in my life than that first one after we finally landed, got to the location and finally relaxed. Mainly it was not having a toothbrush that was the worst!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planes,_Trains_and_Automobiles

Oh yeah, they thought of that! https://www.hallmarkchannel.com/christmas-island

> After that I never flew without my toothbrush, change of clothes and contact solution in my carry on.

You used to fly without those things? :O

Some people check everything, but it’s a good idea to have enough stuff in your carry on to get you through a lost bag situation.

It is more common than you can think of. Especially when people have a “base” both in their departure and destination locations.

For example i know a couple living a long distance relationship. They both have enough stuff at each others place so that they can travel very light.

Now of course it sucks if you suddenly get stranded in between, but it is not life threatening just an inconvenience. And from then on it is just a tradeoff. You can gain a small bit of regular convenience for the cost of risking a rare but moderate inconvenience.

People go everywhere all the time without a couple of Snickers bars and/or Walkers style shortbreads or equivalents, some wet wipes, a disposable fork, a 3-port power strip, and a bottle of unsweetened beverage.

Unbelievable by my standards, because those items had saved me time and again from my frequent time mismanagements, but not everyone is on an exact same standard.

Holy shit I know someone who was in that flight

Ha, maybe I know you irl. Although it's a pretty common emergency landing and refueling spot for cross Atlantic flights. I think a lot of the 9-11 planes got grounded there, there's a nice book about how the local population of Canadians in Gander supported the giant sudden influx of population from the grounded flights.

https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/148775

If it makes you feel any better, planes can operate much “wider” than they normally do for the comfort of the passengers.

If you ever watch the takeoff profile of a FedEx or UPS plane compared to the airlines, they turn much harder because they’ve no passengers to complain.

in the context of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38882358 i'll soon opt out of boeing operated flights indeed

If it's Boeing, I ain't going.

Especially if this happened because they left the anti-icing system on too long.

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