Suddenly, there was a bad odor that filled the cabin. Everyone cautiously double-checked their seatbelts. The smell was unmistakeably burning flesh.
At last the captain came on. "We just sucked a large sea bird through out left engine. We think we will be fine. Thought you would want to know."
He was right, we were OK, but it was pretty scary.
I plead ignorance.Can one of you military people tell me what the heck I am looking at? I thought a nose cone was filled with electronic gizmos and such. This one looks like it is full of rolled hay.
Ha! That’s nothing like the experience I had on a TWA flight out of Lambert Field in St. Louis. I used one of my valuable upgrade coupons to get into first class. As we were climbing out, the cabin filled with the unmistakable stench of the mysterious blue lavatory fluid. The damn lav overflowed and covered the entire first class cabin floor, including whatever you had stowed under the seat in front of you, with Lord knows what. We made an emergency landing at the KC airport, which was closed for the evening, and we spent about 3 hours waiting for the maintenance team to pull up the carpet and clean the aircraft. This was back when TWA was in serious distress, so there was no special compensation, either. I think that was the last time I flew TWA.