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Old May 28, 2007 | 2:32 pm
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Originally Posted by emma dog
I wrote about a similar incident a couple weeks ago but couldn't find the thread. Almost 10 years ago in the winter time, I was flying ATL-PIT and a snowstorm had things jammed up pretty bad. We entered a holding pattern and someone went into the bathroom and started smoking. They threw their cigarette away in the trash and set the trash on fire. We made an emergency landing, evac'd, etc., just because some dumb*ss couldn't deal with their nic fits.
Sounds like you got in a whole lot faster than if you had stayed in the holding pattern and then waited for a gate after landing.
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