Originally Posted by
YYZtoDCA
The strangest took place in November on a YYZ-EWR-BWI flight on UA. After boarding on time and sitting on the plane for thirty minutes, the first officer announced that we couldn't leave because the pilot had gone missing. Not "we are waiting for the crew" or "the crew is clearing customs," or "waiting for an inbound crew," but *missing.* The first officer announced that the crew had arrived together, gone through customs together, and that somewhere along the way the captain had gone missing from their group and they were unable to contact him.
Had a similar occurrence on AA STL-BWI in summer 2006. GA announced that first officer was missing. Then they found a first officer (either the first guy or a replacement, can't remember) and we boarded, only to find out that they loaded some of the bags onto the wrong plane. So then they had to fix that. After that some jackass started arguing with the captain because he had something in his luggage that he wasn't supposed to have (I want to say it was dry ice, but I honestly can't remember what it was). Arguing with an airline captain is like arguing with a cop who pulls you over - even if you win, you still lose. That was a fun flight.
