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There was nearly a disaster earlier in that flight too, when the pilots got sick from food poisoning and the cabin crew had to ask if any of the passengers knew
by cperciva 4y ago
There was nearly a disaster earlier in that flight too, when the pilots got sick from food poisoning and the cabin crew had to ask if any of the passengers knew how to fly a plane. As it turned out, one of the passengers had flown many years previously, and offered to try.
When he reached the cockpit, however, he took one look at all of the controls on the modern aircraft and realized that he wasn't going to be able to operate it. When the chief steward asked why, he replied, "I am just a simple Pole in a complex plane".
I'll follow lb1lf out.
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- drekipus 4y agoNow this made me laugh like crazy
- danuker 4y agoIt has a grain of truth to it. Poland could donate MiGs to Ukraine, but other countries with US fighters could not, because Ukrainian soldiers didn't know how to fly them.
- Tuna-Fish 4y agoActually not true. Many Ukrainian fighter pilots have received training in the US, where they flew F-16:s. (That is, before the current phase of the conflict.) The hard part is actually the maintenance crews. A modern fighter plane requires constant intensive mainentance, they generally spend much more time being worked on than they spend actually in the air. And this maintenance work requires a lot of specific skills that don't necessarily translate well or at all between aircraft types.
- jacquesm 4y agoAnd a steady supply of parts.
- jacquesm 4y agoWhy did the man from Gdansk marry the woman from Zakopane? 'Opposite Poles attract'.