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Terror at 35,000 feet!

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  • #32
    Dr Strange
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,427 ✭✭✭Dr Strange


    Did it ever occur to anyone that faceman could actually be...the pilot? I mean he has the hat and all....


  • #33
    bodhrandude
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,321 ✭✭✭✭bodhrandude


    Here is something to listen to, to maybe calm you down. :pac:

    If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)



  • #34
    The One Doctor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,322 ✭✭✭The One Doctor


    He's probably dead by now.

    Or landed.


  • #35
    CFlat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,099 ✭✭✭CFlat


    The One Doctor wrote: »
    He's probably dead by now.

    Or landed.

    Or tonguing the older lady bedside him..you know, considering how little time he's left.


  • #36
    faceman
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 16,691 CMod ✭✭✭✭faceman


    Not dead, not landed. 2hrs 15 left. FML


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  • #37
    Duggy747
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,295 ✭✭✭✭Duggy747


    I'd relax with a good movie.

    Like Alive or Fearless....


  • #38
    Standard Toaster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,291 ✭✭✭✭Standard Toaster


    Faceman, have you ever been in a Turkish prison?


  • #39
    Eugene Norman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,191 ✭✭✭Eugene Norman


    donegaLroad wrote: »
    You'll be grand op.. one night we made 3 attempts to land during a storm at Glasgow international.. it was a 50 seater so we were being thrown about. The air hostess fell forward onto the floor out of her seat..

    All the stories about surviving bad flights have a selection bias.


  • #40
    Tabnabs
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 16,057 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tabnabs


    'Cause I'm leavin' on a jet plane
    Don't know when if I'll be back again
    Oh babe, I hate to go

    :(:(:(


  • #41
    Tom Cruises Left Nut
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,104 ✭✭✭Tom Cruises Left Nut


    Im keeping an eye out for a ball of flames coming in over the city


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  • #42
    Boom_Bap
    Moderators, Music Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,740 Mod ✭✭✭✭Boom_Bap


    Start saying in a loud voice that you heard a snapping noise from engine 3.
    Keep repeating it, getting louder each time while slowly standing up with a shocked expression.

    Then smile laugh and say 'fooled yiz, it was engine 4' *serious face*


  • #43
    Turtle_
    Closed Accounts Posts: 640 ✭✭✭Turtle_


    Faceman, are you coming from San Francisco? If so, my dad's also on that flight


  • #44
    ErinGoBrath
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,354 ✭✭✭ErinGoBrath


    Boom_Bap wrote: »
    Start saying in a loud voice that you heard a snapping noise from engine 3.
    Keep repeating it, getting louder each time while slowly standing up with a shocked expression.

    Then smile laugh and say 'fooled yiz, it was engine 4' *serious face*

    Probably not a major concern on a 2 engine plane


  • #45
    namloc1980
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,767 ✭✭✭✭namloc1980


    ErinGoBrath wrote: »
    Probably not a major concern on a 2 engine plane

    Nah it works even better on a twin engine plane.


  • #46
    Boom_Bap
    Moderators, Music Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,740 Mod ✭✭✭✭Boom_Bap


    namloc1980 wrote: »
    Nah it works even better on a twin engine plane.

    It's hilarious in one man gliders, where you are the one man.


  • #47
    jamesbere
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,022 ✭✭✭jamesbere


    Plane forced to land because he goes mental after WiFi connection goes


  • #48
    foggy_lad
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,373 ✭✭✭✭foggy_lad


    Op have you got a set of worry beads? Don't worry if you don't but ask the old dear beside you if she has rosary beads. Start praying and encourage other passengers to pray for the health and wellbeing of the pilot.


  • #49
    OldGoat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,647 ✭✭✭✭OldGoat


    Not long now Faceman. Soon enough you'll be circling Dublin, you'll look out the window and see the familiar sight of the two chimneys in Ringsend and like every proud Irishman that has ever flown into Dublin you be filled with the thought..."Those jayzuz things are so ****ing ugly!"

    I'm older than Minecraft goats.



  • #50
    everlast75
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,021 ✭✭✭✭everlast75


    Maybe watch some movie clips OP...

    Here's one that will take your mind off it...

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QY7fODFm3P8

    Elect a clown... Expect a circus



  • #51
    Shannon757
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,847 ✭✭✭✭Shannon757


    Where is he now?


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  • #52
    faceman
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 16,691 CMod ✭✭✭✭faceman


    An hour to go and that bastardin' turbulence is back!


  • #53
    uck51js9zml2yt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,252 ✭✭✭✭uck51js9zml2yt


    faceman wrote: »
    An hour to go and that bastardin' turbulence is back!

    Please be considerate of your fellow boardsies and ask the pilot to crash the plane so we can open a missing plane megathread.


  • #54
    ch750536
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,736 ✭✭✭ch750536


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLl9gLrwsmA


  • #55
    spurious
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Education Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 27,498 CMod ✭✭✭✭spurious


    faceman wrote: »
    An hour to go and that bastardin' turbulence is back!

    It could be worse. You were 'unknown' on Flightradar a short while ago.


  • #56
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,060 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Chill, the chances of an incident mid-flight is really really low.

    The landing is where you usually crash.

    Good luck btw


  • #57
    jimgoose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,237 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    I miss the old days on BA flights, when the captain was usually a 50-year-old ex-RAF Vulcan bomber pilot named Chris Jenkins, sleeping through the sort of thing that had normal folk crying and praying. "Bit choppy this morning, chaps. Look sharp!!"

    Some of the best I've seen also were German Lufthansa pilots - the way they hoored the machine into the air would remind you of a young hooligan wheelie-ing a FireBlade. :pac:


  • #58
    Tazio
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 710 ✭✭✭Tazio


    Just checked the aviation METARs and there is severe/catastrophic turbulence predicted for east flying traffic over the Mayo/Galway region in the next 20 mins. That's almost 97% of the permitted structural loading on the airframe.

    Surely the OP is home by now... !!!!!!!???????

    (only joking - your flight EIN146 is just off coast by Clifden... the worst should be over by now.) you'll be fine.


  • #59
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,060 ✭✭✭✭biko


    If you lived in Knock you'd be home by now.


  • #60
    whiskeyman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,564 ✭✭✭✭whiskeyman


    Moments like this call for a flashmob...

    Boardsies assemble!

    Grab your kids / family etc... and scribble 'welcome home Faceman' messages on coloured paper and make your way to Dublin Airport.
    The crowds that gather will surely interest TV3 / The Herald, and Faceman will be given a heroes welcome...


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  • #61
    cowboyBuilder
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,419 ✭✭✭cowboyBuilder


    Turtle_ wrote: »
    Faceman, are you coming from San Francisco? If so, my dad's also on that flight

    Yes, its the SF flight ... landing in about 15 mins..


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