Originally Posted by
slawecki
for every tail, there is a head wind. we once had to stop in iceland to gas up on a muc-iad flight. very cold, and lots of wind. we got dumped on the tarmac in the dark, and were told not to let go of the rope(ran from plane to airport)
bought lots of iclandic wool sweaters
came back recently from lhr to iAd. we dropped south of england, and did not take great circle route. head winds were under 10 knts.
Yeah. Long ago we had to gas up in SEA on a LAS - Tokyo flight. Got us to Tokyo 4 hours late, the first time we had ever been in a country without a lot of English. Then I end up pushed onto a baggage carousel (this was back when they were flat rather than had an edge) wearing a heavy backpack and it hauled me quite a distance before I could get off. (Rising from laying on your back with a heavy pack is hard enough under the best of conditions.) I think it was something like 2 hours before I found my parents in the mess. (The normal lost advice of stay put didn't make sense as I didn't recall where I had been knocked onto the carousel--it was one we were just walking past, not where we got our bags. I couldn't get back to the path they took.)