Air Disasters
One of my favorite shows is called Air Disasters which is on the Smithsonian Channel every week. They do a full hour recreation of airline crashes where every body dies or really close misses where everybody is OK. They have all types of planes globally doing bad things on the show. The show also does a brilliant job of solving why the disaster occurred. Yesterday, Linda and I had a shot at a starring role! We were flying from Nashville to Marquette, MI via a stop in Detroit on Delta. I know I have bitched about Delta in the past, but this was a great plan to save a lot of time and the tickets were frequent fliers points, so they were cheap. We flew on an MD 88 to Detroit and had a couple hours to get some lunch and stretch out a little. We worked our way to our gate and about 30 minutes prior to loading, the first excuse was offered. Crew is here, no plane. Over the next hour, no plane. It was an RJR j...