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Hard to Believe People Don't Want to Fly Anymore...

August 25, 2006 07:48 AM

...with stories like this in the Daily Mirror, "Exclusive: Trapped on Flight 63."  352 people were kept on a Virgin Atlantic jet at Gatwick yesterday for seven hours, as they waited for take off.  Police had to be called in to keep the passengers from rioting.

Here's the timeline:

8.45am Passengers begin boarding flight VS63 from Gatwick to Havana

9.30am Flight due to depart

10.00am Passengers finish boarding. Doors closed

11.00am Crew announce there is a technical problem which will take 15 minutes

11.30am Passengers told they are waiting for a spare part

1.30pm Crew announce the spare part has arrived. Take-off "soon"

2.45pm Passengers told inflight meals may have to be replaced. If not cleared for take-off by 3.30pm crew won't be able to fly

3.25pm Plane begins to taxi for take-off

3.35pm Take-off stopped

3.45pm Captain says plane has a misshapen tyre and will have to go back to the terminal

4pm Flight cancelled. Police board plane amid fears of rioting

4.30pm Passengers are allowed off but told they must wait for their luggage

Sounds like complete hell.  Maybe that's what these people deserve, though, for wanting to vacation in a communist stronghold?  Commenters, does that get you to bite?  

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