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Old Oct 11, 2012 | 4:38 pm
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johnmont
 
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Originally Posted by Tunapalooza
A gold star apologist! Congrats. I'm physically in the aircraft and can assure you that the departure delay is solely due to a mechanical fault with the aircraft. Unless the captain is lying, which I doubt. Each of his updates on the mechanical problems was followed by an automated update blaming weather. There may yet be a weather delay, but it hasn't happened yet.
http://www.fly.faa.gov/flyfaa/flyfaaindex.jsp?ARPT=IAD

Due to WEATHER / LOW CEILINGS, departure traffic destined to San Francisco International Airport, San Francisco, CA (SFO) is currently experiencing delays averaging 2 hours and 16 minutes.

I'm physically not in the aircraft and can assure you that the departure delay is not solely due to a mechanical fault with the aircraft.
Last edited by J.Edward; Oct 12, 2012 at 2:44 am Reason: tos compliance
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