“....a 13 Hour Tour.....a 13 Hour Tour!”
is a black storm like an atmospheric river or a bomb cyclone?
“29-hour ordeal in the sky - and on the tarmac.”
I’ve done longer.
Mil Air Charter.
4 hours Korea to Japan.
6 hours on the tarmac in Japan (Fuel leak) no deboarding.
10 hours Japan to Fairbanks. Diverted due to volcano.
6 hours on tarmac to service aircraft no deboarding.
7 hours Alaska to Alabama.
33 hours total time on aircraft.
Then there was the 6 hour bus ride to north alabama.
It also took 8 hours to board the aircraft in Korea. (train ride plus flat tire on aircraft).
Something like 48 hours total travel time.
We need to start diverting all aircraft coming out of China. They are sending too much sickness and death to America. It’s time to stop.
Took that exact flight 2 years ago instead of normal Houston to Taipei flight. Have never seen the sun in Taipei and found Hong Kong to be the same.
The headline made me think of The Langoliers.
A lot of westbound transatlantic flights were diverted to Gander Newfoundland after the Islamist attacks on Sept 11, 2001. It took well until the next morning to deplane all those passengers.
Wow! a black storm must have been spawned by a tropical vortex and accompanying high force derecho winds.
I spent 35 hours on a DC8 stretch from McCord AFB to Cairo in 85. Multiple stops but couldn’t get off.
It beats dying.