Three walk-away plane crashes in Alaska in the span of 3 years.

Arrested at gunpoint in Iran for photographing a secret police "safe house" in Rasht. Spent several hours in the jailhouse until I convinced the copper that I was on "official" business for the provincial governor (the Shah's cousin.) Well, I was, but not on that day. I just thought the building was photogenic. He saluted me before letting me go. I'm sure he's currently running a restaurant in West LA.

Trapped with several crazy Uzbeks (plenty of sane ones on board, but a couple who seriously lost it) on an Aeroflot IL-62 on the apron at TAS for almost 2 hours, aircon off, mid-August, pending the driver deciding the engines were up for the TO roll. People were screaming and fainting from the heat. When we took off the aircon came back on like the fridge from hell, and the moisture in the air (ie sweat) condensed out on metal bits, and it rained on us all the way to Moscow.

Door opened on an Aztec over the Bering Sea and my work papers all got sucked out.

Forced to eat Western Airlines MysteryMeat™ four days a week commuting up and down the west coast. Oh the horror.