Originally Posted by
Alpha Golf
Truth, it is stranger than fiction:
I was on a DC-9 DCA-DTW that had to offload pax after the pilot requested extra fuel because of bad weather. I don't think there's any great mystery here after you look at the flightaware map, and consider altitude/TO temps.
Is that a photoshop? Most of the horses I've seen are larger? Certainly larger than one side of the aisle of a 737.